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; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide. The mind umpirage of the federal Union. E. Everett.

To separate, as substances in combination; to release from combination or union. [R.] Daniel.

Harmony; agreement; concord; union.

Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.

ngdom, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when the Legislative Union went into operation. -- United Greeks (Eccl.), those members of the Greek Church who acknowledge the supremacy of the pope; -- called also uniats.

Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.

To become unfastened; to lose all connection or union.

A union, association, or society; -- used in names of German organizations.

The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.

A bond of union; a tie.

ii. 2. -- To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.

e act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.

To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.

in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.

ginating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which were combined in the year 1884 as a national association. Now nearly all the civilized countries, and esp. the United States, have local, national, and international organizations.…

Literally, a customs union; specifically, applied to the several customs unions successively formed under the leadership of Prussia among certain German states for establishing liberty of commerce among themselves and common tariff on imports, exports, and transit.

zygoma. Zygomatic arch, the arch of bone beneath the orbit, formed in most mammals by the union of the malar, or jugal, with the zygomatic process of the temporal bone. In the lower vertebrates other bones may help to form it, and there may be two arches on each side of the skull, as in some reptiles. -- Zygomatic pro…

nd division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeæ), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oöphyte.

A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of algæ and fungi.

A spore formed by the union of several zoöspores; -- called also zygozoöspore.