To make solid to unite or press together loose or separate parts, and form a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. He fixed and consolidated the earth above the waters.

To unite the parts of a broken bone or the lips of a wound, by means of applications.

To unite two parliamentary bills in one.

In law, to combine two. benefices in one.

To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid. In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Moist clay consolidates by drying.

Formed into a solid mass.