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Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

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.…

k or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.

ied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or llliterate speech]. See An't.

. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

stilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.

Attractive power; attractiveness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.