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Webster 1913 Edition

Link

Link

(lĭṉk)
,
Noun.
[Prob. corrupted from
lint
and this for
lunt
a torch, match, D.
lont
match; akin to G.
lunte
, cf. MHG.
lünden
to burn. Cf.
Lunt
,
Linstock
.]
A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
Shak.

Link

,
Noun.
[OE.
linke
, AS.
hlence
; akin to Sw.
länk
ring of a chain, Dan.
lænke
chain, Icel.
hlekkr
; cf. G.
gelenk
joint, link, ring of a chain,
lenken
to bend.]
1.
A single ring or division of a chain.
2.
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
“Links of iron.”
Shak.
The
link
of brotherhood, by which
One common Maker bound me to the kind.
Cowper.
And so by double
links
enchained themselves in lover’s life.
Gascoigne.
3.
Anything doubled and closed like a link;
as, a
link
of horsehair
.
Mortimer.
4.
(Kinematics)
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
5.
(Mach.)
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically
(Steam Engine)
, the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
6.
(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. Cf.
Chain
,
Noun.
, 4.
7.
(Chem.)
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; – applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

Link

(lĭṉk)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Linked
(lĭṉkt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Linking
.]
To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were
linked
together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
Eustace.

Link

,
Verb.
I.
To be connected.
No one generation could
link
with the other.
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition

Link

LINK

, n.
1.
A single ring or division of a chain.
2.
Any thing doubled and closed like a link; as a link of horse hair.
3.
A chain; any thing connecting.
- And love, the common link, the new creation crowned.
4.
Any single constituent part of a connected series. This argument is a link in the chain of reasoning.
5.
A series; a chain.

LINK

,
Noun.
[Gr.; L. lychnus, a lamp or candle, coinciding in elements with light.]
A torch made of tow or hards, &c., and pitch.

LINK

, v.t.
1.
To complicate.
2.
To unite or connect by something intervening or in other manner.
- Link towns to towns by avenues of oak.
- And creature link'd to creature, man to man.

LINK

,
Verb.
I.
To be connected.

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