conglobulates

Verb

conglobulate (third-person singular simple present conglobulates, present participle conglobulating, simple past and past participle conglobulated)

1. (intransitive, rare) To collect together into a compact round mass.
   • ‘Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the red of a river.’1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 393