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The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

ick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

The quality or state of adhering.

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

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

raction. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.

` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

receiving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

Not transmitting the actinic rays.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting. Shak.

derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

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.

Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.