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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Attrahent

/ăʹtrəhənt/ · At·tra·hent · IPA /ˈætɹəhənt/
01 a. Attracting; drawing; attractive.
  1. 1.
    Attracting; drawing; attractive.
02 n. That which attracts, as a magnet.
  1. 1.
    That which attracts, as a magnet.
    “The motion of the steel to its attrahent.” Glanvill.
  2. 2.
    A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.(Med.)