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The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc. Ray.

of a school. The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. Hooker.

The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.

An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America.

Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.

The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson.

A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland.

An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.

ce, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.

An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]

Isorropic line (in a diagram) (Geom.), the locus of all the points for which a specified function has a constant value. Newcomb.

The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction. Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands. Shak.

united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.

To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. [Obs.] Make us a king to judge us. 1 Sam. viii. 5.

The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. Lambda moth (Zoöl.), a moth so called from a mark on its wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda (

ving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases of the larynx.

A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.

To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar. [Obs.]