the consolidated fund

Consolidated \Con*sol"i*da`ted\, p. p. & a.
   1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
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            The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great
            variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties
            which were [in 1715] consolidated.    --Rees.
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            A mass of partially consolidated mud. --Tyndall.
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   2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in
      the cactus.
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            Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and
            designed for very dry regions; in such only they are
            found.                                --Gray.
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   {The Consolidated Fund}, a British fund formed by
      consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate
      Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816,
      the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and
      Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the
      Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are
      paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of
      the civil list, etc.
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