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us substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

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

One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

In an adherent manner.

One who adheres; an adherent.

Not adhering.

Adherent part way.

ide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.

prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

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.…

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.

To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

(Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.