attached to its support.The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance.which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt;.-- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals,

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1. 1. That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
2. 2. The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
3. 3. The chief ingredient in a compound.
4. 4. A substance used as a mordant.
5. 5. The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
6. 6. Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.
7. 7. Peerless; incomparable.
8. 8. Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.
9. 9. The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts.
10. 10. See Incompatibility.