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A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah. Ex. xvi. 36.

One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

nto 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.

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

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

Characterized by allomerism.

Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. Packard.

les by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

One who uses a besom. [Archaic]

One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.

A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.

A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

One who, or that which, booms.

A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes ve…

The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim.