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hat the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between terminal wires…

The act or state of sticking together; close union.

Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton.

A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation. Grew.

- (with, together. See Com-.

The act ofworking together; united labor.

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder.…

a shaft. Raymond. Collar beam (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are d…

chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay.

Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [Obs.] Bailey.

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

Gathered together.

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.

A binding together. Sir T. Browne.

A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.