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n by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own afffairs.

An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.

To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] Lyly.

culiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.

Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree of favor." Sir P. Sidney.

Closely; intimately. [Obs.]

To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. Block system, Conservative system, etc. See under Block, Conservative, etc.

An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics.

Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [Colloq.] We have been thick ever since. T. Hughes.

to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. Shak. That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. Milton. And for these words, thus woven into song. Byron.

To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.

To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate. We 'll yoke together, like a double shadow. Shak.

e. Phil. iv. 3. The two languages [English and French] became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. Earle. Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and yokefellow. Addison.