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Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. [Obs.] They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanvill.

A political union, confederation, or league. [R.] Burke.

essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system. The best way to learn any scien…

segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.

A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. Bouvier.

The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.

try not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed i…

in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion.

The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. Murdock.

An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics.

A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.

arge bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.

Addition; union; accumulation. Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage. Denham.

In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. The king joined humanity and policy together. Bacon.

A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.

The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.

n of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.

A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.