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To twist together one with another; to intertwine.

To involve one within another; to twist or coil together. Milton.

To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton.

The act of working in together; interweaving. Milton.

To throng or collect together. [R.] Fairfax.

tration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

rve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

Coming in together; entering; commingling. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]

To twist into or together; to interweave. [Written also entwist.]

To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace. Down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold. Milton.

the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.

ory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.

A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.

To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope.

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. Woe unto them that join house to house. Is. v. 8. Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined. Shak. Thy tuneful voice with numbers join. Dryden…

The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction. Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands. Shak.

The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.

In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately. Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow. Shak.

A merrymaking; noisy festivity. [Colloq.] We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.