To go smartly; trip along; do anything smartly and quickly.
To join or connect with other parts of the same or similar systems: as, in topography, to connect two isolated surveys or systems of points and geometrical lines, with one another, by joining one point in each of the two systems by a line of measured length and direction.
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plural The ground on which golf is played.
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A torch made of tow or hards, etc., and pitch, carried for lighting the streets, formerly common in Great Britain, and still used in London in fogs.
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In mathematics:
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A piece of a straight line joining two given points.
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A double tangent.
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In music, a connecting passage of one or more measures, intervening between two well-defined sections or phrases.
To unite or connect by or as if by a link or links; unite by something intervening; unite in any way; couple; join.
To be or become connected; be joined in marriage; ally one's self; form a union.
To burn or give light.
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A crook or winding of a river; the ground lying along such a winding: as, the links of the Forth.
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plural A stretch of flat or slightly undulating ground on the sea-shore, often in part sandy and covered with bent-grass, furze, etc., and sometimes with a good sward, on part of it at least.
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plural The ground on which golf is played.
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One of the rings or separate pieces of which a chain is composed. In ornamental chain-making, any member of the chain, of whatever form, as a plaque, a bead, etc., is called a link.
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Anything doubled and closed together like a ring or division of a chain.
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Anything which serves to connect one thing or one part of a thing with another; any constituent part of a connected series.
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A division, forming the hundredth part, of the chain used in surveying and for other measurement.
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One of the divisions of a sausage made in a continuous chain.
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Any rigid movable piece connected with other pieces, generally themselves movable, by means of interlinked open ends or pivots about which it can turn.
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In a steam-engine, the link-motion.
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In zoology, specifically, an unknown hypothetical form of animal life in any evolutionary chain or series, assumed to have existed at some time and thus to have been the connecting-link between some known forms; especially, an anthropomorphic animal supposed to have been derived from some simian and to have been the immediate ancestral stock of the human race; hence, humorously, an ape or monkey taken as itself the connectinglink for which Darwinians seek. See Alalus.