At'tra-hent1, a.
a. Attracting; drawing; attractive.
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Attrahent
At’tra-hent2, n.
n. [Lat. attrahens, p. pr. of attrahere. See ATTRACT.]
Sense 1. That which attracts or draws, as a magnet. The motion of the steel to its attrahent. Glanville.
Sense 2. (Med.) A substance formerly supposed to possess the property of drawing the humors to the part where applied, but which really only excites action in the part, and thus may increase excretion, as an epispastic, sinapism, rubefacient, or suppurative.