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An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

ding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

Accompanying; conjoined; attending. It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke.

A joint accusation.

To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When outward causes concur. Jer. Colier.

A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation. Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people. Swift.

eeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrance.

To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together. By words men . . . covenant and confederate. South.

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union. Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot.

To unite in marriage; to join. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves. Sir T. Browne.

United; conjoined; concurrent. [Archaic]

The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league. He will unite the white rose and the red: Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction. Shak. Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others. South.…

Joining; connecting.

In union; conjointly; unitedly; together. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination. The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity. Hobbes. A fit conjuncture or circumstances. Addison.

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism.…

That which connects or joins together; bond; tie. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things. I. Taylor.