Part 250

<blockquote>The violence of the waters <b>aggested</b> the earth. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Agglomerate</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glom"er*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Agglomerated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Agglomerating</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>agglomeratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>agglomerare</ets>; <ets>ad + glomerare</ets> to form into a ball. See <er>Glomerate</er>.]</ety> <def>To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.</def>

<blockquote>Where he builds the <b>agglomerated</b> pile. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Agglomerate</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glom"er*ate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To collect in a mass.</def>

<h1>Agglomerate, Agglomerated</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw><hw>Ag*glom"er*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ag*glom"er*a`ted</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Collected into a rounded head of flowers.</def>

<h1>Agglomerate</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glom"er*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A collection or mass.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from <i>conglomerate</i>.</def>

<h1>Agglomeration</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glom`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>agglom\'82ration</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.</def>

<blockquote>An excessive <b>agglomeration</b> of turrets. <i>Warton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.</def>

<h1>Agglomerative</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glom"er*a*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.</def>

<blockquote>Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) <b>agglomerative</b>. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Agglutinant</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glu"ti*nant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>agglutinans</ets>, <ets>-antis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>agglutinare</ets>.]</ety> <def>Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def> Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.</def></def2>

<h1>Agglutinate</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glu"ti*nate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Agglutinated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Agglutinating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>agglutinatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>agglutinare</ets> to glue or cement to a thing; <ets>ad + glutinare</ets> to glue; <ets>gluten</ets> glue. See <er>Glue</er>.]</ety> <def>To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.</def>

<h1>Agglutinate</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glu"ti*nate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(physiol.)</fld> <def>Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; <as>as, <ex>agglutinate</ex> forms, languages, etc.</as> See <er>Agglutination</er>, 2.</def>

<h1>Agglutination</h1> <Xpage=31>

<hw>Ag*glu`ti*na"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>agglutination</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.</def>