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Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

Without tongue; tongueless.

In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

One versed or engaged in agriology.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

Pertaining to agrostology.

One skilled in agrostology.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

See Ætiology.

The tunny. See Albicore.

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.

The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. Sir W. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.

One learned about algæ; a student of algology.

The study or science of algæ or seaweeds.