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One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.

Joint ordinance.

or of the world, or many coördinate powers presiding over each country. Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms. Rev. R. Morris. Coördinate adjectives, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the same subject. -- Coördinate conjunctions, conjunctions joining independent…

Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.

A joint patriot.

Joined; associated; coupled. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction. Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas. Johnson.

a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under Coralloid. -- Coral snake. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South Ameri…

A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.

Joint rivalry.

in, living in the stalk, and causing the disease called "gout," on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlorops tæniopus. (b) A small fly (Anthomyia ze) whose larva or maggot destroys seed corn after it has been planted. -- Corn fritter, a fritter having green Indian corn mixed through its ba…

United; general; collectively one. They answer in a joint and corporate voice. Shak. Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board.

A joint sovereign.

A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.

A joint trustee.

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. [Obs.] It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. L'Estrange. I'll go in couples with her. Shak.

s, so that they may revolve together. -- Coupling pin, a pin or bolt used in coupling or joining together railroad cars, etc.