Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CO-HE'RENCE, or CO-HE'REN-CY, n.

1. A sticking, cleaving or hanging together; union of parts of the same body, or a cleaving together of two bodies, by means of attraction; applied to all substances, solid or fluid. – Locke. Bentley.
2. Connection; suitable connection or dependence, proceeding from the natural relation of parts or things to each other, as in the parts of a discourse, or of any system; consistency. – Hooker. Locke.