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A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.

d zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent. V. Knox. In politics I hear you 're stanch. Prior.

Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.

Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.

Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.

an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in "Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them."

An adherent to a synod. These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. Fuller.

The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.

chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

e Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.

An adherent of a theory, the transmission theory, that the brain serves to "transmit," rather than to originate, conclusions, and hence that consciousness may exist independently of the brain.

Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.

The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] Glanvill.

Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak.

A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.

moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth. "[The scene] did draw tears from me and wetted my paper." Burke. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck…