Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) 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..

Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy..

Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.

Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process..

Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant..

Adhesive :: Adhesive (a.) Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances..

Adhesive :: Adhesive (a.) Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

Adhesively :: Adhesively (adv.) In an adhesive manner.

Adhesiveness :: Adhesiveness (n.) The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

Adhesiveness :: Adhesiveness (n.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse..

Aesthesia :: Aesthesia (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia.

Aesthesiometer :: Aesthesiometer (n.) Alt. of Esthesiomete.

Aesthesis :: Aesthesis (n.) Sensuous perception.

Anaesthesia :: Anaesthesia (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.

Anaesthesis :: Anaesthesis (n.) See Anaesthesia.

Anesthesia :: Anesthesia (a.) Alt. of Anestheti.

Anthesis :: Anthesis (n.) The period or state of full expansion in a flower.

Antimetathesis :: Antimetathesis (n.) An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself. He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen..

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) Opposition; contrast.

Aphesis :: Aphesis (n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire..

Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc..

Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A dressing room connected with a public bath.

Chesible :: Chesible (n.) See Chasuble.

Coenesthesis :: Coenesthesis (n.) Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system..

Cohesibility :: Cohesibility (n.) The state of being cohesible.

Cohesible :: Cohesible (a.) Capable of cohesion.

Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.

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