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ess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n.

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

Inability to swallow.

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

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

To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

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

Conglutinant.

To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.

The act of ungluing.

process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

Pertaining to deglutition. [R.]

Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.

To glut. [Obs.] "Englutted with vanity." Ascham.

To glut. [R.] Ascham.

in water. Hemicollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.