Agger
(||Ag"ger) n. [L., a mound, fr. aggerere to bear to a place, heap up; ad + gerere to bear.] An
earthwork; a mound; a raised work. [Obs.] Hearne.
Aggerate
(Ag"ger*ate) v. t. [L. aggeratus, p. p. of aggerare. See Agger.] To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.
Aggeration
(Ag`ger*a"tion) n. [L. aggeratio.] A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]
Aggerose
(Ag`ger*ose") a. In heaps; full of heaps.
Aggest
(Ag*gest") v. t. [L. aggestus, p. p. of aggerere. See Agger.] To heap up. [Obs.]
The violence of the waters aggested the earth.
Fuller.
Agglomerate
(Ag*glom"er*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agglomerated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating ] [L.
agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form into a ball. See Glomerate.] To wind or
collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Where he builds the agglomerated pile.
Cowper.
Agglomerate
(Ag*glom"er*ate), v. i. To collect in a mass.
Agglomerate
(Ag*glom"er*ate Ag*glom"er*a`ted) a.
1. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
2. (Bot.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.
Agglomerate
(Ag*glom"er*ate) n.
1. A collection or mass.
2. (Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; — distinguished from conglomerate.
Agglomeration
(Ag*glom`er*a"tion) n. [Cf. F. agglomération.]
1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
An excessive agglomeration of turrets.
Warton.
2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
Agglomerative
(Ag*glom"er*a*tive) a. Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.
Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative.
Coleridge.
Agglutinant
(Ag*glu"ti*nant) a. [L. agglutinans, -antis, p. pr. of agglutinare.] Uniting, as glue; causing,
or tending to cause, adhesion. — n. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.
Agglutinate
(Ag*glu"ti*nate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agglutinated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Agglutinating.] [L.
agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See
Glue.] To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an
adhesion of substances.
Agglutinate
(Ag*glu"ti*nate) a.
1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
