| Joint |
n. |
The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe. |
| Joint |
n. |
A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation. |
| Joint |
n. |
The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg. |
| Joint |
n. |
Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. |
| Joint |
n. |
A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. |
| Joint |
n. |
The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint. |
| Joint |
n. |
The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. |
| Joint |
a. |
Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action. |
| Joint |
a. |
Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together. |
| Joint |
a. |
United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc. |
| Joint |
a. |
Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond. |
| Joint |
v. t. |
To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards. |
| Joint |
v. t. |
To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. |
| Joint |
v. t. |
To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. |
| Joint |
v. t. |
To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. |
| Joint |
v. i. |
To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly. |
| Joint |
n. |
A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall. |
| Joint |
n. |
A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting. |
| Joint |
n. |
A place of low resort, as for smoking opium. |
| Joint-fir |
n. |
A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed;
called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California. |
| Jointed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Joint |
| Jointed |
a. |
Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. |
| Jointer |
n. |
One who, or that which, joints. |
| Jointer |
n. |
A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined |
| Jointer |
n. |
The longest plane used by a joiner. |
| Jointer |
n. |
A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves. |
| Jointer |
n. |
A bent piece of iron inserted to strengthen the joints of a wall. |
| Jointer |
n. |
A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork. |
| Jointing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Joint |
| Jointing |
n. |
The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. |
| Jointless |
a. |
Without a joint; rigid; stiff. |
| Jointly |
adv. |
In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately. |
| Jointress |
n. |
A woman who has a jointure. |
| Jointure |
n. |
A joining; a joint. |
| Jointure |
n. |
An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower. |
| Jointure |
v. t. |
To settle a jointure upon. |
| Jointured |
imp. & p. p. |
of Jointure |
| Jointureless |
a. |
Having no jointure. |
| Jointuress |
n. |
See Jointress. |
| Jointuring |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Jointure |
| Jointweed |
n. |
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. |
| Jointworm |
n. |
The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop. |
