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nds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond. "Links of iron." Shak.

th their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.

A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.

A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.

A fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain. And thou shalt make hooks of gold, and two chains of fine gold; linkwork and wreathed. Udall.

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.

Habitually winking. Marlowe.

One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell.

One who, or that which, blinks.

lled also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving.

sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

See Clnquant.

A kind of brick. See Dutch klinker, under Dutch.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.

A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.

Same as Drawbar (b).