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One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge.

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.

The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.

In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. Knight.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

iety, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said…

To unite in making. [Obs. & R.] The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford.

To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects. What cares must then attend the toiling swain. Dryden.

, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. -- Augustinian nuns, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. -- Augustinian rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by th…

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

e box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

ond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian Fre…

et of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.

A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak.

A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

red building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common America…