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The state or quality of being junior.

Neglect or failure of communion.

Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter.

One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. [Obs.] Sherwood.

The concluding portion of the communion service.

A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.

Communion with one's self; thoughts about one's self.

An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.

An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.

f wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.] Caxton.

A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

n. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

A uniting; union. Jer. Taylor.

That may be affected. [R.] Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.