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The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

arings of the wearer. Hence, an heraldic achievement; the bearings of any person, taken together. -- Coat card, a card bearing a coated figure; the king, queen, or knave of playing cards. "`I am a coat card indeed.' `Then thou must needs be a knave, for thou art neither king nor queen.'" Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair…

Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races. Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al (, a.

Coöperating; acting together to produce an effect. Co`ef*fi"cient*ly, adv.

f substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.

To dwell or live together as husband and wife. The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them. Bouvier.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass. Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. Locke.

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid. Arbuthnot.

t 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 or…

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.