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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.

To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper. To commune under both kinds. Bp. Burnet. To commune with one's self or one's heart, to think; to reflect; to meditate.

To administer the communion to. [R.] She [the church] . . . may communicate him. Jer. Taylor.

In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction. [Obs.] "With comely compass and compacture strong." Spenser.

Union of parts; structure. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A combination; a union; a bond. [Obs.] Shak.

Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word. Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. I. Watts. Compound addition, substraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, substraction…

Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opions and viewa; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift.

A state of agreement; harmony; union. Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. Milton.