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Webster 1913 Edition

Conglomerate

Con-glom′er-ate

,
Adj.
[L.
conglomeratus
, p. p. of
conglomerare
to roll together;
con-
+
glomerare
to wind into a ball. See
Glomerate
.]
1.
Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated;
as,
conglomerate
rays of light
.
Beams of light when they are multiplied and
conglomerate
.
Bacon.
Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and
conglomerate
glands.
Cheyne.
2.
(Bot.)
Closely crowded together; densly clustered;
as,
conglomerate
flowers
.
Gray.
3.
(Geol.)
Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

Con-glom′er-ate

,
Noun.
1.
That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
A
conglomerate
of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together.
Trench.
2.
(Geol.)
A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; – opposed to agglomerate. See
Breccia
.
A
conglomerate
, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.
Lyell.

Con-glom′er-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Conglomerated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Conglomerating
.]
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

Webster 1828 Edition

Conglomerate

CONGLOMERATE

,
Adj.
[L., to wind into a ball, 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 live, 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.
2.
In botany, conglomerate flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot stalk, on short pedicles, closely compacted together without order; opposed to diffused.
3.
Conglomerate rocks. [See Puddingstone.]

CONGLOMERATE

,
Verb.
T.
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a round mass.

CONGLOMERATE

,
Noun.
In mineralogy, a sort of pudding-stone, or coarse sandstone, composed of pebbles of quartz, flint, siliceous slate, &c.

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