console table (konsolta bl)

1. A table which, instead of straight or nearly straight legs, has consoles or legs so curved as to resemble them, and is therefore usually set against the wall, from which it appears to project as a sort of bracket. - 2. More rarely, a table in consolidate (kon-sol'i-dat), a. [L. consol i- dat us , pp.: see the verb.] Formed into a solid ma or system. [Poetical.] All experience past became Consolidate in mind and frame. The lung has been rendered solid. by pneumonic consolidation. Quain, Med. Dict., p. 933. 2. The act of bringing together and uniting several particulars, details, or parts into one body or whole. The gradual establishment of law by the consolidation of custom is the formation of something fixed in the midst of things that are changing. IMG:content-1123.png:[blocks in formation] 3. The sympathetic vibration of a sonorous body, as a piano-string, when another of the same pitch is sounded near it. consonancy (kon'sō-nan-si), n. [ consonance , etc.: see consonance .] Same as consonance . A girl of fifteen, one bred up i' the court, That by all consonancy of reason is like To cro your estate. 4. In civil law , the uniting of the po e ion or profit of land with the property.-5. In Scots feudal law , the reunion of the property with the superiority, after they have been feudally disjoined.-6. In bot . , same as adnation . Con- acts, the name given to acts of the British Parliament which embody such clauses as are common to all the particular acts affecting any cla of undertakings, in order to obviate the nece ity of repeating these clauses in each individual act. Thus, there are the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act , the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act , the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act , etc. - Con- solid at i on locomotive, a type of locomotive for draw ing heavy freight-trains: so called from the name of the first one, made in 1866 for the Lehigh Valley railroad. It had cylinders 20" x 24", four pairs of 48" diameter driving- wheels, and its weight was 90,000 pounds, of which all but 10,000 was on the driving-wheels. E. H. Knight . Con- solid at i on (or consolidating) of actions, the merging of two or more actions together by a court or a judge. This is done for economy of time and expense when two or more actions are brought by the same plaintiff, at the same time, against the same defendant, for causes of ac- tion which might have been joined in the same action. consolidation ist (kon-sol-i-da's hon-ist), n. [ cal system. consolidative (kon-sol'i-da-tiv), a. [ consol i- date + ive .] Tending to consolidate; specifi- cally, in med . , tending to heal wounds. consolidator (kon-sol'i-da-tor), n. solid at or , con solidare , pp. con solid at us , make firm: see consolidate , v.] 1. One who or that which consolidates. Athenæum.-2. Spe- cifically, in pottery - making , an a emblage of strainers for straining slip. con solid at ure (kon-sol'i-da-tūr), n. [ consolidation . Bailey . consols (kon's olz or kon-solz'), n. pl . [Contr. of consolidated annuities .] Government securi- ties of Great Britain, including a large part of the public debt, the full name of which is "the three per cent. consolidated annuities." The consols originated in the consolidation of a great variety of public securities, chiefly in the form of annuities, into a single stock and at a uniform rate of 3 per cent., under an act of Parliament of 1751, the name being retained for all securities of the same form since i ued. The princi- pal is payable only at the pleasure of the government. They are also called "consolidated threes, and other nearly related stocks of smaller amount are known as "re- if the "clearing" were made, as among the Scotch banks, by transfers of consols. Edinburgh Rev., CLXIV. 29. consommé (kon-so-ma'), n. [F., lit. consum- mate, perfect, pp. of consommer, consum- mare , make perfect: see consummate, v. The F. verb is partly confused with consumer , consume .] A strong, clear soup, containing the nutritive proper- ties of the meat, extracted by long and slow cooking. consonance (kon'sō-nans), n. [= F. con so- nance, cons on nance, OF. consonance, cons on nance, also consonancie, consonnancie (>E. consonancy ), = Pr. Sp. Pg. cons on an cia = It. consonanza , cons on an ( t- )s, ppr., agreeing in sound: see consonant and -ance.] 1. Accord or agreement of sounds; specifically, in music , a simultaneous combination of two tones that is, by itself, both agreeable and final in effect. The perfect consonances are the unison, the octave, the fifth, and the fourth; the imperfect are the major and minor thirds and the major and minor sixths. The effect of consonances is due to the simplicity of the ratio be- tween the vibration-numbers of their constituent tones. Thus, the ratio of the unison is; of the octave,; of the fifth,; of the fourth, of the major sixth, of the consolidation (kon-sol-i-da's hon), n. [= F. consolidation = Pr. con solid a cio Sp. con solid a- cion = Pg. con solid ação = It. con solid azione , consolidatio ( n- ), con solidare , pp. con- solid at us , make firm, consolidate: see consol i- date, v.] 1. The act of making or the proce of becoming solid, firm, or stable; the act of. Also called concord. forming into a more firm or compact ma , body, or system. IMG:content-1124.png:[blocks in formation] Goldsmith, Bolingbroke. Negotiation, however, was more consonant to his habit- ual policy. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. 4. [Attrib. use of noun.] Consisting of or re- lating to consonants; consonantal. No Ru ian whose di onant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. 2. A state of agreement or accordance; con- gruity; harmony; consistency: as, the con so- con sonantic