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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. [ Alcohol + -meter. ] (Chem.) An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, a. Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; of one another + Gr. morfh` form. ] (Biol.) One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves; same as allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic a. [1913 Webster]

As we know that the several unit characters are of such a nature that any one of them is capable of independently displacing or being displaced by one or more alternative characters taken singly, we may recognize this fact by naming such characters allelomorphs. Bateson. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to allometry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; other + morfh` form. ] (Min.) (a) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite. (b) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Min.) Of or pertaining to allomorphism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, salt + -mancy: cf. F. alomancie, halomancie. ] Divination by means of salt. [ Spelt also halomancy. ] Morin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Amylum + -meter. ] Instrument for determining the amount of starch in a substance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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 ]

n. [ L. angulus angle + -meter. ] An instrument for measuring external angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., lit. perpendicularity; &unr_; to + plomb lead. See Plumb. ] Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; ankle bone, die + -mancy. ] Divination by means of small bones or dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. baculum staff + -metry. ] Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. bde`lla leech + -meter. ] (Med.) A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>n. [ NL., fr. Gr. bde`lla leech + morfh` form. ] (Zool.) An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; arrow + &unr_; a diviner: cf. F. bélomancie. ] A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bloomery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a stroke, ray + -meter. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a bolometer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. kalo`s beautiful + me`las black. So called from its being white, though made from a black mixture of mercury and corrosive sublimate. Cf. F. calomélas. ] (Chem.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kalo`s stem + -ome as in rhizome. ] (Bot.) A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole. -- Cau*lom"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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

n. [ Cephalo- + -meter. ] (Med.) An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anthropometry) The measurement of the heads of living persons. -- Ceph`a*lo*met"ric pos>a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; lip, fr. &unr_; lip. See -oma. ] (Zool.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of fish, consisting of the burrfishes.
Syn. -- genus Chilomycterus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sonne, he sayde, is clomben up on hevene. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Clamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Calumbin. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The (official) capital city of Sri Lanka. Population (2000) = 1, 994, 000. [ PJC ]

n. (Med.) See Calumba. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖, n.; pl. Condylomata it>or E. Condylomes [ NL. condyloma, fr. Gr. &unr_;, from ko`ndylos knuckle. See -oma. ] (Med.) A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are two kinds of condylomata, the pointed and the broad, the latter being of syphilitic origin. [ 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 ]