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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.

Want of adhesion.

To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

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

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n.

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

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

s of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.

age system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels.

e; to deduct. (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender; as, to give in one's adhesion to a party. -- To give the lie to (a person), to tell (him) that he lies. -- To give line. See under Line. -- To give off, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc. -- To give one's self away, to make an inconsiderate surr…

ows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

e same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.

A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.

apidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope. -- Rope transmission (Mach.), a method of transmitting power, as between distant places, by means of endless ropes running over grooved pulleys. -- Rope's end, a piece of rope; especially, one used as a las…

To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.