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To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

The state of not coalescing.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

Coalesced; united; combined.

To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn.

To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar Byron.

To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke.

To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design Dryden. So sweet did harp and voice combine. Sir W. Scott.

Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. Boyle.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass. Milton.

To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.

Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence. [R.] Bentley.

odies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

onious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.