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That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie. "To join in Hymen's bands." Shak.

; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.

A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship. A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. Burke.

To adorn; to make fine or showy. [Obs.] Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved. Shak.

ose considered to be bad is the idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized union of individuals for mutual support, in urging their demands or resisting the claims of others, and may be good or bad according to circumstances; as, a combiniation of workmen or of employers to effect or to prevent a chang i…

shop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid that the monastic, a…

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

Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society. "The cement of our love."

Colorado; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876.

An abbreviation for Confédération Générale du Travail (the French syndicalist labor union).

That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use;

A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves. -- Chi*as"mal (, a..

One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.

One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.

in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.

The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. [Obs.] The doors of plank were; their close exquisite. Chapman.

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

The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [Obs.] B. Jonson.