Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

United \U*nit"ed\, a.
   Combined; joined; made one.

   {United Brethren}. (Eccl.) See {Moravian}, n.

   {United flowers} (Bot.), flowers which have the stamens and
      pistils in the same flower.

   {The United Kingdom}, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named
      since January 1, 1801, when the Legislative Union went
      into operation.