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To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.

A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.…

To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

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.

To stick 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.]

Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

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.