Chapter Conjunctional to Connote of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.

Connecting rod (Mach.), a rod or bar joined to, and connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.

Connect
(Con*nect") v. i. To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connects with another.

Connectedly
(Con*nect"ed*ly), adv. In a connected manner.

Connection
(Con*nec"tion) n. [Cf. Connexion.]

1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect.
Whewell.

The eternal and inseparable connection between virtue and happiness.
Atterbury.

2. That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.

Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things.
I. Taylor.

3. A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; — used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.

4. The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.

Men elevated by powerful connection.
Motley.

At the head of a strong parliamentary connection.
Macaulay.

Whose names, forces, connections, and characters were perfectly known to him.
Macaulay.

In this connection, in connection with this subject. [A phrase objected to by some writers.]

This word was formerly written, as by Milton, with x instead of t in the termination, connexion, and the same thing is true of the kindred words inflexion, reflexion, and the like. But the general usage at present is to spell them connection, inflection, reflection, etc.

Syn. — Union; coherence; continuity; junction; association; dependence; intercourse; commerce; communication; affinity; relationship.

Connective
(Con*nect"ive) a. Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.

Connection tissue (Anat.) See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.

Connective
(Con*nect"ive), n. That which connects. Specifically: (a) (Gram.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition. (b) (Bot.) That part of an anther which connects its thecæ, lobes, or cells.

Connectively
(Con*nect"ive*ly), adv. In connjunction; jointly.

Connector
(Con*nect"or) n. One who, or that which, connects; as: (a) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. (b) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

Conner
(Con"ner) n. [Cf. Cunner.] (Zoöl.) A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.