Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

CON-GLA-CI-A'TION, n.

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.]

1. 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.
2. In botany, conglomerate flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot-stalk, on short pedicles, closely compacted together without order; opposed to diffused. – Martyn.
3. 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.

CON-GLOM-ERA'TION, n.

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.]

1. To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance.
2. To heal; to unite the separated parts of a wound by a tenacious substance.