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A creeping forth. [Obs.]

A snatching away. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

Relating to erethism.

Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. [Archaic] I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.

One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [R.]

One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

In an adherent manner.

One who adheres; an adherent.

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

A woman who commits adultery.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

The atmosphere. [R.]

One who affeers. Cowell.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

To look after. [Poetic] Shak.