English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Attracting
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Attract
Attraction
(n.)
An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything
to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or
ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their
cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
Attraction
(n.)
The act or property of attracting; the effect of the
power or operation of attraction.
Attraction
(n.)
The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or
engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or
eloquence.
Attraction
(n.)
That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Attractive
(a.)
Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing;
as, the attractive force of bodies.
Attractive
(a.)
Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable
emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
Attractive
(n.)
That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an
allurement.
Attractivity
(n.)
The quality or degree of attractive power.
Attractor
(n.)
One who, or that which, attracts.
Attrahent
(v. t.)
Attracting; drawing; attractive.
Attrahent
(n.)
That which attracts, as a magnet.
Attrahent
(n.)
A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites
action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic,
a sinapism.
Attrap
(v. t.)
To adorn with trapping; to array.
Attrap
(v. t.)
To entrap; to insnare.
Attrectation
(n.)
Frequent handling or touching.
Attributable
(a.)
Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.
Attribute
(n.)
Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive
adjunct or adjective.
Attribute
(n.)
A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity,
added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of
Hercules.
Attribute
(v. t.)
To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or
appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to
assign; to consider as belonging (to).