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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.

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

Crowded together. Gray.

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.

The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

Not congealable; incapable of being congealed. -- In`con*geal"a*ble*ness, n.

Not congenial; uncongenial. [R.] -- In`con*ge`ni*al"i*ty. [R.]

To thaw; to become liquid again. Tennyson.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

Grown to congenitally.

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

euralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.

A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse…