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Conglobate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONGLOBATE, a. [L., to collect or to make round; 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.
CONGLOBATE, v.t. To collect or form into a ball or hard, round substance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: assume a globular shape [syn: conglobate, conglobe]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-bated; -bating) Etymology: Latin conglobatus, past participle of conglobare, from com- + globus globe Date: 1635 to form into a round compact mass • conglobate adjective • conglobation noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conglobate Con*glo"bate (?; 277), a. [L. conglobatus, p. p. of conglobare to conglobate. See Globate.] Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conglobate Con*glo"bate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conglobated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conglobating.] [Cf. Conglore.] To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together. Conglobated bubbles undissolved. --Wordsworth.