I. To sew, stitch, or join together (very rare; mostly ante- and post-class.).
B. Trop.: consuere dolos, to devise, plan, plot: “consutis dolis,” Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 211; id. Ps. 1, 5, 126: “os,” i. e. to forbid to speak, Sen. Ep. 47, 4.— *
II. In gen.: consuere aliquid aliquā re, to stuff, stop up, fill with something: “pinacothecas veteribus tabulis,” Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 4. —Hence, * consūtum , i, n., a garment stitched together, Gai Inst. 3, § 192.