cling

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To hold fast or adhere to something, as by grasping, sticking, embracing, or entwining: clung to the rope to keep from falling; fabrics that cling to the body.
2. v. To remain close; resist separation: We clung together in the storm.
3. v. To remain emotionally attached; hold on: clinging to outdated customs.
4. n. Botany A clingstone.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To adhere closely; be attached; stick: as, a wet garment clings to the limbs.
2. To hold fast, especially by the hands or by coiling round or embracing, or, figuratively, by refusing to abandon or give up.
3. To rush with violence.
4. To wither; shrivel.
5. To cause to adhere closely; apply firmly and closely.
6. To consume; waste to leanness; shrivel.
7. n. Adherence; attachment; the act of holding fast; embrace.
8. n. A bunch; a cluster; an aggregation of several things that cling together.
9. n. A dysentery or bloody flux of sheep: a frequently fatal inflammation of the large intestine of sheep, accompanied with fever and fluid discharges from the bowels.
10. n. In horticulture, a peach, nectarine, or apricot in which the flesh adheres strongly to the stone; a clingstone.

Wiktionary

1. n. Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
2. n. adherence; attachment; devotion
3. v. To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
4. v. To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; ; -- usually followed by to or together.
2. v. obsolete To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
3. v. obsolete To make to dry up or wither.
4. n. rare Adherence; attachment; devotion.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit
2. v. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
3. v. to remain emotionally or intellectually attached
4. v. hold on tightly or tenaciously