Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • United or coalesced: applied specifically, in entomology, to parts structurally or usually separated when they are closely united without a dividing incisure or suture, as the scutellum when it is connate with the pronotum, or the prolegs of a caterpillar when those of a pair are united, only the ends being sometimes distinct.
  • To unite or coalesce.
  • To cause to unite or coalesce.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To cause to unite or coalesce.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To unite or coalesce.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To cause to unite or coalesce.

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Examples

  • Mr Parker electrified the London Underground and created overhead tramways in Liverpool and Birmingham, and the smokeless fuel coalite.

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  • Parker also electrified the London Underground, built trams in Birmingham and Liverpool, and invented a smokeless fuel called coalite.

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  • Parker also electrified the London Underground, built trams in Birmingham and Liverpool, and invented a smokeless fuel called coalite.

    Gizmodo 2009

  • Parker also electrified the London Underground, built trams in Birmingham and Liverpool, and invented a smokeless fuel called coalite.

    Gizmodo 2009

  • Parker also electrified the London Underground, built trams in Birmingham and Liverpool, and invented a smokeless fuel called coalite.

    Gizmodo 2009

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