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A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.

Joint help; coöperation. Sir T. Browne.

Coöperating.

United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.

Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge.

Coadunation. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.

A fellow adventurer.

A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

rument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates. The daily goad urging him to the daily toil. Macaulay.

Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [U. S.].

A highway; a much travele

asion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.

An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones. Knight.

put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load. He might such a load To town with his ass carry. Gower.

One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

The act of putting a load on or into.

Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A pilot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.