coheiress (koares)

[ hærere, stick together, here, inhere.] 1. To stick, or stick together; cleave; be united; hold fast, as one thing to another, or parts of the same ma , or two sub stances that attract each other. Cohesion is manifested by two surfaces of gla , which, if ground exceedingly smooth and placed in contact, will cohere firmly. A. Daniell , Prin. of Phys., p. 229. 2. To be well connected or coherent; follow regularly in the natural or logical order; be suited in connection, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning.-3. To suit; be fitted; agree. Had time coher'd with place, or place with wishing. Shak., M. for M., ii. 1. coherence, coherency (kō-her'ens, -en-si), n. [= F. cohérence = Sp. Pg. coherencia = It. co erenza, this cause must be overcome before motion commences. R. S. Ball, Exper. Mechanics, p. 70. This view of the nature of the labellum explains its large size, and especially the manner of its coherence to the column, unlike that of the other petals. Darwin, Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 238. The United States to-day cling together with a coherency far greater than the coherency of any ordinary federation or league. J. Fiske , Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 99. 2. Suitable connection or dependence, proceeding from the natural relation of parts or things to each other, as in the parts of a discourse or of any system; consistency. Little needed the Princes and potentates of the earth, which way soever the Gospel was spread, to study ways how to make a coherence between the Churches politie and theirs. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. coherent (kō-her'ent), a. [ = F. cohérent =Sp. Pg. coherente = It. coerente, Darwin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 96. cohesive The lower angle of each frustule is coherent to the middle of the next one beneath. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 292. 2. Connected; consistent; having a natural or due agreement of parts; consecutive; logical: said of things: as, a coherent discourse. An unerring eye for that fleeting expre ion of the moral features of character, a perception of which alone makes the drawing of a coherent likene po ible. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 125. From the earliest times that men began to form any co herent idea of it [the world] at all, they began to gue in some way or other how it was that it all began, and how it was all going to end. W. K. Clifjord , Lectures, L. 191. 3. Observing due order, connection, or arrangement, as in thinking or speaking; consistent; consecutive: said of persons. A coherent thinker and a strict reasoner is not to be made at once by a set of rules. Watts, Logice. 4. Suited; fitted; adapted; agreeing. Instruct my daughter how she shall per sever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent. Shak ., All's Well, iii. 7. 5. In bot., sometimes used for connate. coherentific (kō-her-en-tif'ik), a. [Irreg. Cohesive or coherentific force. Cole ridge. coherently (kō-her'ent-li), adv. In a coherent manner; with due connection or agreement of parts; with logical sequence. It is a history in which none of the events follow one another coherently. Buckle , Civilization, I. iii. [ co -1 + heritor .] coheritor (kō-her'i-tor), n. A joint heritor or heir; a coheir. Are a new Calvary and a new Pentecost in reserve for these coheritors of the doom to become coheritors of the ble edne reserved for the human "sons of perdition"? N. A. Rev. , CXXVI. 342.