Con-sŏls' or Cŏn'sols, n. pl.

(Synop., § 130), n. pl. [Formed by abbreviation from consolidated (stocks or annuities); Fr. consolidés.] The leading English funded government security; a fund formed by the consolidation of different annuities, and on which three per cent. is now paid. ☞ It is the stock in which there is most speculation, and hence the price at which it stands generally regulates the rise and fall of other public securities. Simmonds.