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A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.

ing law), issued from one post office and payable at another specified office. -- Postal Union, a union for postal purposes entered into by the most important powers, or governments, which have agreed to transport mail matter through their several territories at a stipulated rate.

Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain philosophers. Addison.

ass. Addis & Arnold. Proper preface (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.), a portion of the communion service, preceding the prayer of consecration, appointed for certain seasons.

church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.

rst manifestation of symptoms indicative of general constitutional infection. -- Primary union (Surg.), union without suppuration; union by the first intention.

A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.

Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. Blackstone.

of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium.

low in large draughts. "Quaffed off the muscadel." Shak. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.

The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.

A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone. [Written also chinhydrone.]

Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones. [Written also chinoxaline.]

y, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.

es; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union. [Cant]

for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.

One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist. All that are recusants of holy rites. Holyday.

The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve.

eals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.