[f. ADHERE + -ING2.] Sticking, clinging, abidingly attached.
1657. Divine Lover, 197. Yet by the Grace of God will I haue noe adheringe Affection to them.
1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth (1723), 19. Metallick or mineral matter, adhering firmly in Lumps to the Outsides of them.
1807. Crabbe, Par. Reg., III. 189. Then from the adhering clasp the keys unbound.
