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

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

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.; 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 ]

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. [ Gr. kry`stallos crystal + -metry. ] The art of measuring crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo- + -meter. ] A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo- + -metry: cf. F. cyclométrie. ] (Geom.) The art of measuring circles. [ 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 ]

n. [ Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s, salt + -meter. ] An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Holo-, and Metabola. ] (Zool.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a complete metamorphosis; -- said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Holo + -meter: cf. F. holometre. ] An instrument for making all kinds of angular measurements. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ F. kilometre. See Kilogram, and Meter. ] A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3, 280.84 feet, or 0.62137119 of a mile. [ 1913 Webster ]