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Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

In an astringent manner.

Including two tribes or races of men.

Possessing the property of touching at two points. -- n.

Shining around or about.

A joint regent or ruler.

An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.

Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful. [Obs.] The cogent force of nature. Prior.

In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincigly; conclusively. Locke.

Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing. Thomson.

ertain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke.

In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

The state of being contingent; fortuitousness.

h other; converging. As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent. Boyle. The vast dome of its cathedral . . . directing its convergent curves to heaven. Hallam.

A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.

Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator. [Obs.]

The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Cleansing; purging. -- n.

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent. The judges shall make diligent inquisition. Deut. xix. 18.

In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity. Ye diligently keep commandments of the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 17.