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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.

r parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. Bentley.

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

The act or state of sticking together; close union.

A state of union; mass.

The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. Attached column. See under Attach, v. t. -- Clustered column. See under Cluster, v. t. -- Column rule, a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing…

The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense. A combination of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin. Melmoth.

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind. Dr. H. More. And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage…

ng the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. -- The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medic…

The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.