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Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [R.] A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot.

Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated. Rees. A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall.

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.

Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Consolidated beforehand.

To consolidate anew or again.

The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.

Partially solid.

The fifth power of a number; as, a is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. [R.] Hutton.

separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are…

ncretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

e rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

f eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali alb…

the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.