aggenerationt (ajenerashon)

[L. aggenerare, adgenerare, beget additionally, generating or producing in addition. N. E. D. agger (aj'er), п. [L., a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc., The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller , Church Hist., Ded. of bk. 9. aggett, aggettt, n . Obsolete spellings of agate2 , agglomerate (a-glom'e-rat), v.; pret. and pp. agglomerated, ppr. agglomerating . [ ag glomeratus, pp. of agglomerare , adglomerare, wind into a ball, ad , to, + glomerare , wind into a ball, glomus ( glomer- ), a ball, akin to globus , a ball: see globe . Cf. conglomerate .] I. trans . To collect or gather into a ma . In one agglomerated cluster hung. Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 1911. There is to an American something richly artificial and scenic, as it were, in the way these colo al dwellings are packed together in their steep streets, in the depths of their little enclosed, agglomerated city. H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 261. II. in trans. To gather, grow, or collect into hard, agglomerating salts," a ball or ma : as, Thomson, Seasons, Autumn, 1. 766. agglomerate (a-glom'e-rat), a. and n. [ cohering. II. n. 1. A fortuitous ma or a emblage of things; an agglomeration.-2. In geol . , an accumulation of materials made up chiefly of large blocks "huddled together in a pell-mell way, without regard to size, shape, or weight." A. H. Green. The term is used almost exclusively with reference to volcanic ejections, and is rarely, if ever, employed by American authors. See breccia and conglome rate.