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To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Combined with auric acid.

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

To bind, or to devote, by a vow. [Obs.] Wyclif.

strument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.

A combining form of azote;

A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. [R.]

mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discounten…

To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

ennyson. -- Balm of Gilead (Bot.), a small evergreen African and Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family (Balsamodendron Gileadense). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this tree is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca. This has a yellowish or greenish color, a wa…

colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam." Hood.

A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.