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<hw>Com"bi*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>combinatus</ets>, p. p.]</ety> <def>United; joined; betrothed.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

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<hw>Com`bi*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>combinatio</ets>. See <er>Combine</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.</def>

<blockquote>Making new compounds by new <b>combinations</b>. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A solemn <b>combination</b> shall be made Of our dear souls. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>combination</b> of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin. <i>Melmoth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.</def>

<note>&hand; In <i>combinations</i> no regard is paid to the order in which the objects are arranged in each group, while in <i>variations</i> and <i>permutations</i> this order is respected.</note>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<cs><col>Combination car</col>, <cd>a railroad car containing two or more compartments used for different purposes.</cd> <mark>[U. S.]</mark> -- <col>Combination lock</col>, <cd>a lock in which the mechanism is controlled by means of a movable dial (sometimes by several dials or rings) inscribed with letters or other characters. The bolt of the lock can not be operated until after the dial has been so turned as to combine the characters in a certain order or succession.</cd> -- <col>Combination room</col>, <cd>in the University of Cambridge, Eng., a room into which the fellows withdraw after dinner, for wine, dessert, and conversation.</cd> -- <col>Combination by volume</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>the act, process, or ratio by which gaseous elements and compounds unite in definite proportions by volume to form distinct compounds.</cd> -- <col>Combination by weight</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>the act, process, or ratio, in which substances unite in proportions by weight, relatively fixed and exact, to form distinct compounds. See <cref>Law of definite proportions</cref>, under <er>Definite</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Cabal; alliance; association; league; union; confederacy; coalition; conspiracy. See <er>Cabal</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Com*bine"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Combined</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Combining</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[LL. <ets>combinare</ets>, <ets>combinatum</ets>; L. <ets>com-</ets> + <ets>binus</ets>, pl. <ets>bini</ets>, two and two, double: cf. F. <ets>combiner</ets>. See <er>Binary</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union.</def>

<blockquote>So fitly them in pairs thou hast <b>combined</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Friendship is the which really <b>combines</b> mankind. <i>Dr. H. More.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And all <b>combined</b>, save what thou must <b>combine</b> By holy marriage. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Earthly sounds, though sweet and well <b>combined</b>. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bind; to hold by a moral tie.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I am <b>combined</b> by a sacred vow. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Com*bine"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.</def>

<blockquote>You with your foes <b>combine</b>, And seem your own destruction to design <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>So sweet did harp and voice <b>combine</b>. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To unite by affinity or natural attraction; <as>as, two substances, which will not <ex>combine</ex> of themselves, may be made to <ex>combine</ex> by the intervention of a third</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Card Playing)</fld> <def>In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.</def>