consistence
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Thicken with sugar until the mixture attains the consistence of a light batter.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
I exclaimed as I jumped up from my chair, for my wife's words gave color and consistence to a dim and faint suspicion which had crossed my mind.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
Add boiling water sufficient to make it of the consistence of thin gruel.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
In the former the larva is generally worm-like, of a soft and fleshy consistence, and furnished with a mouth, and often with six short legs attached in pairs to the three segments succeeding the head.
From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock
The flowering glume has generally a more or less boat-shaped form, is of firm consistence, and possesses a well-marked central midrib and frequently several lateral ones.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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