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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Agglomerated p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating ] [ L. agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form into a ball. See Glomerate. ] To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; part. ] (Chem.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Characterized by allomerism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; unequal + &unr_; part. ] (Chem.) Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Anisomeric. ] (Bot.) Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`rqron joint + -mere. ] (Zool.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. Packard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Astronomy. ] 1. An astrologer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

An undevout astronomer is mad. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. bai`nein to walk + -mere. ] (Zool.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses a besom. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout + -mere. ] (Biol.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Mrs. Bloomer, an American, who sought to introduce this style of dress. ] 1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Manuf.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, booms. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A large male kangaroo. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who works up a “boom”. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; gill + -mere. ] (Anat.) The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) a specialized condensed region of a chromosomes that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Biol.) pertaining to the centromere, the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cephalo- + -mere. ] (Zool.) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. Packard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present. [ 1913 Webster ]

All comers, all who come, or offer, to take part in a matter, especially in a contest or controversy. “To prove it against all comers.” Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 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 ]

n. [ A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A lewd woman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe to conduct something downwards; specif.: (a) (Iron Manuf.) A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc. (b) (Steam Engin.) In some water-tube boilers, a tube larger in diameter than the water tubes to conduct the water from each top drum to a bottom drum, thus completing the circulation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Ecto- + -mere. ] (Biol.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Gr. 'enanti`os opposite + -mer. ] (Chem.) either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.
-- E*nan`ti*o*mer"ic, a. [PJC]

n. [ Ento- + -mere. ] (Biol.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

n. [ Ethmoid + vomerine. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ethmovomerine plate (Anat.), a cartilaginous plate beneath the front of the fetal brain which the ethmoid region of the skull is developed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fathoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. gastronome, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, stomach + &unr_; law, &unr_; to distribute. ] One fond of good living; an epicure. Sir W. Scott.

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 ]

n. A Hebrew measure. See Homer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gun.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; part. ] (Zool.) A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi. [ 1913 Webster ]