glom

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 ]