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The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison. [Obs.] Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford. Hocker.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.

A rubbing together; friction. [Obs.] Bacon.

To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount Blackmore.

Crowded together. Gray.

To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together. Conglobated bubbles undissolved. Wordsworth.

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate. Bacon. Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands. Cheyne.

Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.

A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union. Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot.