1. 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.
2. That which adheres; an appendage. [R.] Milton.
Syn. — Follower; partisan; upholder; disciple; supporter; dependent; ally; backer.
Adherently
(Ad*her"ent*ly), adv. In an adherent manner.
Adherer
(Ad*her"er) n. One who adheres; an adherent.
Adhesion
(Ad*he"sion) n. [L. adhaesio, fr. adhaerere: cf. F. adhésion.]
1. 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.
2. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy.
De Quincey.
3. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion.
Macaulay.
4. (Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
5. (Med.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory
process.
6. (Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
Syn. — Adherence; union. See Adherence.
Adhesive
(Ad*he"sive) a. [Cf. F. adhésif.]
1. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
2. 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.
Adhesively
(Ad*he"sive*ly), adv. In an adhesive manner.
Adhesiveness
(Ad*he"sive*ness), n.
1. The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
2. (Phren.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.
Adhibit
(Ad*hib"it) v. t. [L. adhibitus, p. p. of adhibere to hold to; ad + habere to have.]
1. To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead.
2. To use or apply; to administer. Camden.
3. To attach; to affix. Alison.
