Nexus: alternatives and connections

To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a per…

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

Connection in the way of descent.

Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of langua…

The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.

An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of…

The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc.,…

To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confedera…

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

An angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions.

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…

To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)

The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.