ATTRAHENT

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Attracting; drawing; attractive.

2.
n.

That which attracts, as a magnet. The motion of the steel to its attrahent. Glanvill.

3.
n.

A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.


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