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Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. Gray.

nts are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland…

Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.

A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects. Gray. These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card assemblies. A. Drummond.

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

Heart-shaped. Gray.

The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. Creased, like dog's ears in a folio. Gray.

Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. Gray.

Bearded or tufted with hairs. Gray.

in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; - - called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.

land, England, or to a system of rocks found there. Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; -- so called because most prominent at Cumberland.

An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.

To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] Gray.

One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves. Gray.

One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. Gray.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen. Gray.

Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. Gray.

Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Gray.