CONGLOMERATE (2)

conglomerate (2). Conglomerate, v.t. to make round, to wind up

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Con‐glom″er‐ate (?), n. 1. 1. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together. Trench. 2. 2. (Geol.) 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.
A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. Lyell.