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To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. Bacon. To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne.

Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

, Gel"a*tine (, n. Etym: [F. gélatine, fr. L. gelare to congeal. See Geal.] (Chem.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on t…

bstance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten. This cold, congealed blood That glues my lips, and will not let me speak. Shak.

Not congealable.

See Laryngeal.

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream. [Southwestern U. S.]

Having few or imperfect syringeal muscles; -- said of some passerine birds (Oligomyodi).

Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.

To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass. [R.] H. Spencer.

Phalangeal.

Pharyngeal. H. Sweet.

-- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal. -- n.

A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.

White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.

A combining form denoting connection with, or relation to, the sacrum, as in sacro-coccyageal, sacro-iliac, sacrosciatic.