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One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. Packard.

One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present. All comers, all who come, or offer, to take part in a matter, especially in a contest or controversy. "To prove it against all comers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

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.

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

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.] The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.

The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

To unwind, as a thread from a ball. [R.]

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull. Ethmovomerine plate (Anat.), a cartilaginous plate beneath the front of the fetal brain which the ethmoid region of the skull is developed.

One who fathoms.

One fond of good living; an epicure. Sir W. Scott.

Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.

ing or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.

Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. [Obs.] Blount.

A glomerulus.

The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

A Hebrew measure. See Homer.

One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.