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A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn.

To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar Byron.

Closely united.

To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.

To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. Tennyson. The princes of the country clustering together. Foxe.

To combine or unite. [Obs.] "Co-uned together." Feltham.

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).

To act together; to work in concert; to unite. [Obs.] But if I tell you how these two did coact. Shak.

Acting in concurrence; united in action. With what's unreal thou coactive art. Shak.

United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.

To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face. Totten.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

s similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke.

A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor.

That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.

The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.