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To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

aving a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.

dvocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. Barlow.

United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

The act of uniting in a league; confederation.

Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal. "A federative society." Burke.

To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] Coleridge.

The soldering ir uniting of me [R.] Coleridge.

, used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.] [It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few" Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. Proverb.

An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. Macaulay.

The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.

One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.

The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.

A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so…