Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON'STI-PATE, v.t. [L. constipo; con and stipo, to crowd, or cram, Eng. to stuff, to stop. See Stuff and Stop.]

1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to thicken or condense. – Bacon.
2. To stop, by filling a passage, and preventing motion; as, to constipate capillary vessels. Arbuthnot.
3. To fill or crowd the intestinal canal, and make costive. – Brown.