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Made of hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.]

Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

In an adherent manner.

purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness. Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. Locke.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

In a coherent manner.

Incoherent. [R.]

Ubiquity; omnipresence. [R.] Grew.

Not adhering.

The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. Boyle.

Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward.

Causing incoherence. [R.]

In an incoherent manner; without due connection of parts.

Incoherence.

The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. Jer. Taylor.

attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most inherent baseness." Shak. The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. Southey.

By inherence; inseparably. Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy. Bentley.

Adherent part way.