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Link

Link, n.

noun

n. [Sw. länk, ring of a chain, Dan. länke, Icel. hleclr, chain, Ger. gelenk, joint, link, ring of a chain, from Ger. lenken, to bend.]

  1. A single ring or division of a chain; sometimes, a chain. “Strong links of iron.” Shak.
  2. Any thing doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horse-hair. Mortimer.
  3. (Mech.) Any intermediate rod or piece transmitting motive power from one part of a machine to another.
  4. (Steam-eng.) A link-motion.
  5. Any thing connecting or binding together; hence, any constituent part of a connected series.

Love, the common link, the new creation crowned. Dryden. The associating link is the same in each instance. Wordsworth.

  1. (pl.) Sausages;—so called from being made in a continuous chain. [Local and colloq. Eng. and U. S.]
  2. (pl.) The windings of a river, and the ground lying along them. [Scot.] W. Scott.
  3. (Surveying.) The length of one joint of Gunter’s chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.

Link-work, mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting pieces, are employed to transmit motion from one part to another.

Lĭnk, n.

noun

n. [Allied to Lat. lychnus, Gr. λύχνος, light, lamp.] A torch made of tow or hards, &c., and pitch.

Link, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. LINKED (lĭŋkt); p. pr. & vb. n. LINKING.]

  1. To complicate. Johnson.
  2. To unite or connect by means of something intervening. “And creature linked to creature, man to man.” Pope.

Link towns to towns by avenues of oak. Pope.

Link, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To be connected.

No one generation could link with the other. Burke.