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A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.

Coagulated. [Obs.] His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

y crystal streams that murmur through the meads. Dryden. The crystal pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. H. Brooks.

To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother Shak.

To thicken; to congeal. Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold. Southey.

harge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.

A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress. Heard, noted, answer'd, as in full debate. Pope.

One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.

by on or upon, formerly by of. The truth of God's word dependeth not of the truth of the congregation. Tyndale. The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. Heaven forming each on other to depend. Pope.…

n, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent congregation.

To deprive of ornaments. Congreve.

Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall.

Unsuitableness; incongruity. [Obs.] Bacon.

Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

Incongruous. W. Montagu.

To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [Obs.]

Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.