Congested (a.) Crowded together.
Congested (a.) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperaemic; -- said of any part of the body.
Congestion (n.) The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
Congestive (a.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
Congiaries (pl. ) of Congiary
Congiary (n.) A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius.
Congius (n.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts.
Congius (n.) A gallon, or four quarts.
Conglaciate (v. t. & i.) To turn to ice; to freeze.
Conglaciation (n.) The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost.
Conglobate (a.) Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.
Conglobated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglobate
Conglobating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglobate
Conglobate (v. t.) To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.
Conglobation (n.) The act or process of forming into a ball.
Conglobation (n.) A round body.
Conglobed (imp. & p. p.) of Conglobe
Conglobing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglobe
Conglobe (v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
Conglobe (v. i.) To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.
Conglobulate (v. i.) To gather into a small round mass.
Conglomerate (a.) Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
Conglomerate (a.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
Conglomerate (a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
Conglomerate (n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
Conglomerate (n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.
Conglomerated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglomerate
Conglomerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglomerate
Conglomerate (v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Conglomeration (n.) The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass.
Conglutin (n.) A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.
Conglutinant (a.) Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.
Conglutinate (a.) Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.
Conglutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglutinate
Conglutinate (v. t.) To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.
Conglutinate (v. i.) To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.
Conglutination (n.) A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.
Conglutinative (a.) Conglutinant.
Congou (n.) Alt. of Congo
Congo (n.) Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea.
Congo snake () An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.
Congratulant (a.) Rejoicing together; congratulatory.
Congratulated (imp. & p. p.) of Congratulate
Congratulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congratulate
Congratulate (v. t.) To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.
Congratulate (v. i.) To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country.
Congratulation (n.) The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.
Congratulator (n.) One who offers congratulation.
Congratulatory (a.) Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.
Congree (v. i.) To agree.
Congreet (v. t.) To salute mutually.
Congregate (a.) Collected; compact; close.
Congregated (imp. & p. p.) of Congregate
Congregating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congregate
Congregate (v. t.) To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
Congregate (v. i.) To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Congregation (n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
Congregation (n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
Congregation (n.) An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
Congregation (n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
Congregation (n.) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
Congregation (n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
Congregation (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
Congregation (n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
Congregational (a.) Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
Congregational (a.) Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.
Congregationalism (n.) That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.
Congregationalism (n.) The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.
Congregationalist (n.) One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.
Congresses (pl. ) of Congress
Congress (n.) A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
Congress (n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.
Congress (n.) The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
Congress (n.) A gathering or assembly; a conference.
Congress (n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
Congress (n.) The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
Congress (n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
Congression (n.) A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse.
Congressional (a.) Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
Congressive (a.) Encountering, or coming together.
Congressmen (pl. ) of Congressman
Congressman (n.) A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
Congreve rocket () See under Rocket.
Congrue (v. i.) To agree; to be suitable.
Congruence (n.) Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
Congruency (n.) Congruence.
Congruent (a.) Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.
Congruism (n.) See Congruity.
Congruities (pl. ) of Congruity
Congruity (n.) The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
Congruity (n.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
Congruity (n.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Congruous (a.) Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.
Congruously (adv.) In a congruous manner.
Conhydrine (n.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.
Conia (n.) Same as Conine.
Conic (a.) Alt. of Conical
Conical (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
Conical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.