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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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384 words match “CONG”

CONGENITALLY n.

In a congenital manner.

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital. [Obs.] Many conclusions, of moral and intellectual truths, seem . . . to be congenite with us. Sir M. Hale.

The conger eel; -- called also congeree. Conger sea (Zoöl.), the sea eel; a large species of eel (Conger vulgaris), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet.

A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

CONGEST v. 2 definitions

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

CONGESTED a. 2 definitions

Crowded together. Gray.

CONGESTION n. 2 definitions

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.] The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn.

Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius. Addison.

CONGIUS n. 2 definitions

A gallon, or four quarts. [Often abbreviated to cong.]

To turn to ice; to freeze. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

CONGLACIATION n.

act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.

CONGLOBATE a. 2 definitions

Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.

CONGLOBATION n. 2 definitions

The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne.

CONGLOBE v. 2 definitions

To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. Then founded, then conglobed Like things to like. Milton.

CONGLOBULATE v.

To gather into a small round mass.

CONGLOMERATE a. 6 definitions

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.

CONGLOMERATION n.

g into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

CONGLUTINANT a.

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