Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To become or cause to become stuck or glued together.
- intransitive & transitive verb Medicine To become or cause to become reunited, as bones or tissues.
- adjective Relating to the abnormal adhering of tissues to one another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To glue together; unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; reunite by adhesion; cement.
- To adhere; coalesce; become united by the intervention of some glutinous substance.
- Glued together; specifically, in botany, united by some adhesive substance, but not organically united: as, con-glutinate organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.
- transitive verb To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.
- intransitive verb To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To stick or glue together
- verb To join together, to unite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb stick together
- verb cause to adhere
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The market overall is likely to become conglutinate, said Fumiyuki Nakanishi, a strategist at Tokyo- based SMBC Friend Securities
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_ You must drink your wine pure; and to thicken your blood, which is too thin, you must eat good fat beef, good fat pork, good Dutch cheese, some gruel, rice puddings, chestnuts, and thin cakes, [5] to make all adhere and conglutinate.
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