Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CON-GES'TION – CON-GLU'TI-NATE
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CON-GES'TION, n. [L. congestio.]
A collection of humors in an animal body, hardened into a tumor. An accumulation of blood in a part. – Encyc. Coxe.
CON-GEST'IVE, a.
Indicating an accumulation of blood in some part of the body.
CON'GI-A-RY, n. [L. congiarium, from congius, a measure; Fr. congiaire.]
Properly, a present made by the Roman emperors to the people; originally, in corn or wine measured out to them in a congius, a vessel holding a gallon or rather more. In present usage, a gift or donative represented on a medal. – Encyc. Addison.
CON-GLA'CIATE, v.i. [L. conglacio; con and glacio, to freeze; glacies, ice.]
To turn to ice; to freeze. – Brown.
The act of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation. – Brown.
CON-GLO'BATE, a. [L. conglobatus, from conglobo; con and globo, to collect or to make round; globus, a ball. See Globe.]
Formed or gathered into a ball. A conglobate gland is a single or lymphatic gland, a small smooth body, covered in a fine skin, admitting only an artery and a lymphatic vessel to pass in, and a vein and a lymphatic vessel to pass out. – Parr. Coxe.
CON-GLO'BATE, v.t.
To collect or form into a ball, or hard round substance. – Grew.
CON-GLO'BA-TED, pp.
Collected or formed into a ball.
CON-GLO'BATE-LY, adv.
In a round or roundish form.
CON-GLO-BA'TION, n.
The act of forming into a ball; a round body.
CON-GLOBE', v.i.
To collect, unite or coalesce in a round mass. – Milton.
CON-GLOBE', v.t. [L. conglobo; con and globo, from globus, a round body.]
To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. – Milton.
CON-GLOB'ED, pp.
Collected into a ball.
CON-GLOB'ING, ppr.
Gathering into a round mass or ball.
CON-GLOB'U-LATE, v.i.
To gather into a little round mass, or globule. Johnson.
CON-GLOM'ER-ATE, a. [L. conglomero; con and glomero, to wind into a ball, from glomus, a ball, a clew. See Glomerate.]
- Gathered into a ball or round body. A conglomerate gland is composed of many smaller glands, whose excretory ducts unite in a common one, as the liver, kidneys, pancreas, parotids, &c. Each little granulated portion furnishes a small tube, which unites with other similar ducts, to form the common excretory duct of the gland. – Coxe. Encyc.
- In botany, conglomerate flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot-stalk, on short pedicles, closely compacted together without order; opposed to diffused. – Martyn.
- Conglomerate rocks. [See Pudding-stone.]
CON-GLOM'ER-ATE, n.
In mineralogy, a sort of pudding-stone, or coarse sandstone, composed of pebbles of quartz, flint, silicious slate, &c. – Cleaveland.
CON-GLOM'ER-ATE, v.t.
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a round mass. – Grew.
CON-GLOM'ER-A-TED, pp.
Gathered into a ball or round mass.
CON-GLOM'ER-A-TING, ppr.
Collecting into a ball.
The act of gathering into a ball; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.
CON-GLU'TI-NANT, a. [See Conglutinate.]
Gluing; uniting; healing. – Bacon.
CON-GLU'TI-NANT, n.
A medicine that heals wounds.
CON-GLU'TI-NATE, v.i.
To coalesce; to unite by the intervention of a callus. – Johnson.
CON-GLU'TI-NATE, v.t. [L. conglutino; con and glutino, from gluten, glue. See Glue.]
- To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance.
- To heal; to unite the separated parts of a wound by a tenacious substance.