Noah Webster
Link
LINK, noun
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.; Latin lychnus, a lamp or candle, coinciding in elements with light.]
A torch made of tow or hards, etc., and pitch.
LINK, verb transitive
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 intransitive To be connected.