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The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits.

A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Something subjoined; as, a subjunction to a sentence.

A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.

c. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest. Pope.

Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.

Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.

at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.