To stick fast or adhere, as by a glutinous surface, to (†on, upon, in). (The perfect tenses were formerly formed with be.)

to stick (cleave, cling,etc.) like a bur.

intransitive. To cling; to stick or adhere. Also with to. spec. (English regional (northern) and Scottish): (of food, esp. milk) to adhere to the…

intransitive. To adhere, stick fast, attach oneself firmly to, as by a glutinous surface, or by grasping with prehensile organs. (Now the leading…

intransitive. To cling, adhere, remain.

intransitive. To settle, stick.

intransitive. To become or remain physically attached to (also †in) something; to stick fast (to a surface or substance); (also) to stick…

intransitive. To stick tenaciously, as anything adhesive, or viscid; also transferred.

intransitive. To lay hold or fix itself by clasping. Obsolete (except as absolute use of a preceding transitive construction).

intransitive. To fasten on; to cling. Obsolete.

intransitive. = cling, v.1

intransitive. To be clammy, or moist and sticky; to stick, adhere, as glutinous things.

to cling.

intransitive. With to, upon. To adhere, stick, or cling; to be or become attached.

intransitive. To fix oneself, fasten on.

Phrases: close as wax, tight as wax, neat as wax; to stick (to one) like wax; to fit like wax.

intransitive. [To adhere, stick to.]