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A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.

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.

Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.

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

Conglutinant.

The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent.

Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.

Having convolutions. beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. Pennant.

hing upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats. Thomson.

A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa. The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems. Tennyson.

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]

The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

A small hornlike part or process.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.