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Intimate connection. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.

multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence or connection. Owen.

ox through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits.

To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose. Derham.

Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

A bond of union; a connection; a tie. "With nuptial knot." Shak. Ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed. Bp. Hall.

A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes. Knight.

To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man. If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.) They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow o…

ee Surveyor's level, under Level, n. -- Leveling staff, a graduated rod or staff used in connection with a leveling instrument for measuring differences of level between points.

That which binds; bond; connection. Tied with tape, and sealed at each fold and ligation. Sir W. Scott.

The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance. [Written also ligeancy and liegance.] Chaucer.

training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for…

ehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.

The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect.

Necessary connection or relation. Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature. Jer. Taylor.

Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.

such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections.

Connection; tie. Man is doubtless one by some subtile nexus ... extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard. De Quincey.

Not moral nor immoral; having no connection with morals; not in the sphere of morals or ethics; not ethical.