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Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.

See Astringent.

Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

In an astringent manner.

Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing. Thomson.

Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [R.] "The fringent air." Emerson.

Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.

Restringing; astringent; styptic. [Obs.] -- n.

Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules. They must be subject to a sharper penal code, and to a more stringent code of procedure. Macaulay. -- Strin"gent*ly, adv. -- Strin"gent*ness, n.

Somewhat astringent.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

Astringent and repellent. -- n.

of silver phosphate in an aqueous solution of ethylene diamine, used as an antiseptic astringent and as a disinfectant.

A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy. Dunglison.

Binding; astringent. -- n.

The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.