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Gloom. [Obs.]

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

rming 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.

into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

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

ctions. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

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.

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

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

To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] Surrey.

s in the Rocky Mountain region. The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.

formation (Geol.), the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or period. See the Diagram under Geology.

Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc.

Will, a kind of drop seed. Muhlenbergia diffsa. Orchard grass, pasture and hay. Dactylis glomerata. Porcupine grass, troublesome to sheep. Northwest. Stipa spartea. Quaking grass, ornamental. Briza media and maxima. Quitch, or Quick, grass, etc., a weed. Agropyrum repens. Ray grass. Same as Rye grass (below). Redtop,…

A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.

similar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n. Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numb…