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Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. Thomson. Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction. -- 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.

To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead.

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

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.

Not giving out or 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.

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

Indifferent or neutral. Jer. Taylor.

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or 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.

Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty. Adipose fin (Zoöl.), a soft boneless fin. -- Adipose tissue (Anat.), that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat.

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

To add or annex; to join. Leland.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [R.] Earle.