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In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wenChaucer.

unting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression i…

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.

A combining together. [R.]

any. [Obs.] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

To grow together.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

n; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

ity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.…

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke.

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

to be in accordance; to agree. "Nor time nor place did then adhere." Every thing adheres together." Shak.

The compound formed by mixing different substances together.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

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

Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil." Milton.