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v. i. To collect in a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A collection or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. clustered together but not coherent. an agglomerated flower head
Syn. -- agglomerate, agglomerative, aggregate, clustered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. agglomération. ] 1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. [ 1913 Webster ]

An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. [ 1913 Webster ]

Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Anglo'cf + mania. ] A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One affected with Anglomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conglomeratus, p. p. of conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into a ball. See Glomerate. ] 1. Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia. [ 1913 Webster ]

A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conglomerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conglomerating. ] To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conglomeratio: cf. F. conglomeration. ] 1. The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is conglomerated; a mixed mass; a hodgepodge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. e- + glomerate. ] To unwind, as a thread from a ball. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [ Obs. ] Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gloom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. glomus a ball. Cf. Globe. ] (Anat.) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Glomerated p. pr. & vb. n. Glomerating ] To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glomeratus, p. p. of glomerare to glomerate, from glomus. See 3d Glome. ] Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. glomeratio. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is formed into a ball; a ball. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glomerosus, fr. glomus. See 3d Glome. ] Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. fr. L. glomus ball. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A glomerulus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Glomeruli [ NL., dim. of L. glomus. See 3d Glome. ] (Anat.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney. [ 1913 Webster ]