[ad. L. agglomerāt-us: see prec.]
A. adj. Gathered into a ball or cluster, or in Bot. into a rounded head of flowers; collected into a mass.
1828. Kirby & Spence, Entomol., IV. xlii. 155. They are divided into agglomerate ovaries and branching ovaries.
1858. Gray, Bot. Text-bk., 395. Agglomerate, heaped or crowded into a dense cluster, but not cohering.
1879. G. Macdonald, Sir Gibbie, III. iv. 73. The sudden dispersion of its [a Scotch congregation’s] agglomerate particles.
B. sb. [The adj. used absol.]
1. A collection or mass of things rudely or loosely thrown or huddled together.
1831. Edin. Rev., LIV. 378. A general agglomerate of all facts.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. III. xiii. 216. This Duchy of Cleve, all this fine agglomerate of Duchies.
2. Geol. A mass consisting of volcanic or eruptive fragments, which have united under the action of heat; as opposed to a conglomerate, composed of waterworn fragments, united by some substance in aqueous solution.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. II. xxvii. 72. This great overlying deposit … is a white tufaceous agglomerate.
1881. Geikie, in Nature, No. 626. 606. The lavas and their associated agglomerates.
