Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-BINE', v.i.

1. To unite, agree or coalesce; as, honor and policy combine to justify the measure.
2. To unite in friendship or design; to league together. You with your foes combine. – Dryden.
3. To unite by affinity, or natural attraction. Two substances which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.
4. To confederate; to unite as nations; as, the powers of Europe combined against France.