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Ligature :: Ligature (n.) The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint..

Rattlesnake :: Rattlesnake (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang..

Coaptation :: Coaptation (n.) The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint..

Culvertailed :: Culvertailed (a.) United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

Club :: Club (n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund..

Cotrustee :: Cotrustee (n.) A joint trustee.

Ginglymus :: Ginglymus (n.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle..

Coheiress :: Coheiress (n.) A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

Popliteal :: Popliteal (a.) Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space..

Trochantine :: Trochantine (n.) The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa..

Joint :: "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..

Jointed :: Jointed (imp. & p. p.) of Join.

Scrofula :: Scrofula (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may

Cercopod :: Cercopod (n.) One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.

Concurrence :: Concurrence (n.) A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation.

Felon :: Felon (a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint..

Supple :: Supple (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers..

Link :: Link (n.) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4..

Coordinance :: Coordinance (n.) Joint ordinance.

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