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Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

To bring forth prematurely; to slink. Thy she-goats have not cast their young. Gen. xxi. 38.

Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

ght to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain. E. Darwin.

Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of little links or chains.

A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. [They] put a chain of gold about his neck. Dan. v. 29.

An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

ssing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. Scott.

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`Then thou must needs be a knave, for thou art neither king nor queen.'" Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breasted coat; or a button with a loop for a single-breasted coat. -- Coat of mail, a defensive garment of chain mail. See Chain mail, un…

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind. Dr. H. More. And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage…

To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. This all things friendly will concatenate. Dr. H. More

A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

n, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism. Locke.…

Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows link by necessary consequence. Coleridge.