Consolidate /(?)/

1. 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.

imp. & p. p. Consolidated; p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating

1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.

   He fixed and consolidated the earth.

2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.

   Consolidating numbers into unity.

3. To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. (Surg.) [R.]

1. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

   In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate.