Adhesive vs Mountant - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between adhesive and mountant

is that adhesive is sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances while mountant is rising.

is that adhesive is a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion while mountant is the medium used for mounting a slide.

(wikipedia adhesive)

* (obsolete)

(en adjective)

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

(en noun)

A substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion.

* *

(en adjective)

(archaic) Rising

*{{quote-book, 1607,

, passage=Hold up, you sluts, / Your aprons mountant }}

(en noun)

(microscopy) The medium used for mounting a slide

*{{quote-book, 2004, Cletus P. Kurzman & Jack W. Fell, Biodiversity of Fungi, chapter=Yeasts, page=335 citation

, passage=Both mountants can be placed on the same slide, with spores placed in each. }}

(photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount

*{{quote-book, 1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, page=365, edition=1964 reprint citation

, passage=The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.}}