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To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.

To link together; to join, as one chain to another. Dryden.

See Clinkstone.

A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.

To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. "To slink away and hide." Tale of Beryn. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent. Milton. There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed. Landor.

Thin; lank. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.]

A glimpse or flash of the sun. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The Indians of a seafaring group of tribes of southern Alaska comprising the Koluschan stock. Previous to deterioration from contact with the whites they were the foremost traders of the northwest. They built substantial houses of cedar adorned with totem poles, and were expert stone carvers and copper workers. Slaver…

To separate or undo, as links; to uncoil; to unfasten. Shak.

ance the arm can reach. -- To go (or walk) arm in arm, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. "When arm in armwe went along." Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work a…

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned Coleridge.

To blink; to shine; to look. [Obs.]

of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.

(common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a s…

A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

f workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.

The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

A little can or cup. "And let me the canakin clink." Shak.