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English Dictionary: Link' by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Link'
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Link \Link\ (l[icr][nsm]k), n. [Prob. corrupted from lint and
      this for lunt a torch, match, D. lont match; akin to G.
      lunte, cf. MHG. l[81]nden to burn. Cf. {Lunt}, {Linstock}.]
      A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Link \Link\, n. [OE. linke, AS. hlence; akin to Sw. l[84]nk ring
      of a chain, Dan. l[91]nke 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. [bd]Links of iron.[b8]
            --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Link \Link\, v. i.
      To be connected.
  
               No one generation could link with the other. --Burke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Link \Link\ (l[icr][nsm]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Linked}
      (l[icr][nsm]kt); 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Link \Link\, n. [See {Linch}.]
      1. A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank
            between cultivated fields, etc. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
  
      2. A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a
            winding; a meander; -- usually in pl. [Scot.]
  
                     The windings or [bd]links[b8] of the Forth above and
                     below Stirling are extremely tortuous. --Encyc.
                                                                              Brit.
  
      3. pl. Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating
            land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
            [Scot.]
  
                     Golf may be played on any park or common, but its
                     original home is the [bd]links[b8] or common land
                     which is found by the seashore, where the short
                     close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural
                     obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes,
                     and banks, supply the conditions which are easential
                     to the proper pursuit of the game.      --Encyc. of
                                                                              Sport.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   link
  
      1. {hard link} or {symbolic link}.
  
      2. {hyperlink}.
  
      (1997-10-22)
  
  
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