Definition of joint

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"Joint (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification..

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Weld :: Weld (n.) The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
Tertiary :: Tertiary (a.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
Short-jointed :: Short-jointed (a.) Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short..
Coexecutrix :: Coexecutrix (n.) A joint executrix.
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
Glasswort :: Glasswort (n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap..
Abarticulation :: Abarticulation (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis..
Penciling :: Penciling (n.) Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall.
Articular :: Articular (n.) Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process..
Jointuress :: Jointuress (n.) See Jointress.
Welt :: Welt (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint..
Connectively :: Connectively (adv.) In connjunction; jointly.
Dislocation :: Dislocation (n.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced..
Articulation :: Articulation (n.) One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material..
Toggle :: Toggle (n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
Cirrus :: Cirrus (n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta..
Unjointed :: Unjointed (a.) Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent..
Jointer :: Jointer (n.) A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork.
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
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