Word Meanings - CONGLOBATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne. 2. A round body.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• 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.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• FORME
  See PATTé
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• FORMEDON
  A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
• FORMAT
  The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little
• FORMYL
  A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.