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At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.

A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.

A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument. Tripod of life, or Vital tripod (Physiol.), the three organs, the heart, lungs, and brain; -- so called because their united action is necessary to the maintenance of life.…

The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.

The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.

A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.

The finishing of joints along the center lines with a narrow ridge of putty or fine lime mortar.

Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennæ of insects.

vers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.

One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

lterior), having in composition the signification beyond, on the other side, chiefly when joined with words expressing relations of place; as, ultramarine, ultramontane, ultramundane, ultratropical, etc. In other relations it has the sense of excessively, exceedingly, beyond what is common, natural, right, or proper; a…

Not having joined in a league, or assented to a covenant or agreement, as to the Solemn League and Covenant of the Scottish people in the times of the Stuarts. In Scotland a few fanatical nonjurors may have grudged their allegiance to an uncovenanted king. Sir T. E. May.

To join below or beneath; to subjoin. Wyclif.

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.

Combined; joined; made one. United Brethren. (Eccl.) See Moravian, n. -- United flowers (Bot.), flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower. -- The United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when the Legislative Union went into operation. -- United Greeks (Eccl.),…

The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

ch. See the Note under Catholic, a., 1. -- Universal coupling. (Mach.) Same as Universal joint, below. -- Universal dial, a dial by which the hour may be found in any part of the world, or under any elevation of the pole. -- Universal instrument (Astron.), a species of altitude and azimuth instrument, the peculiarit…