Word Meanings - CONGLOBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. Then founded, then conglobed Like things to like. Milton.

Related words: (words related to CONGLOBE)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• CONGLOBATION
  1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne. 2. A round body.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.