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Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.

uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

egating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

In good part; kindly. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

ion; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.…

dance; harmony; -- with to or between. [Obs.] The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew.

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.

A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects.

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey.

A winglike organ, or part.

eguments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.