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Psychophysics :: Psychophysics (n.) The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

Coadjuvancy :: Coadjuvancy (n.) Joint help; cooperation.

Dib :: Dib (n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

Catchfly :: Catchfly (n.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly..

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints..

Jointureless :: Jointureless (a.) Having no jointure.

Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes..

Coordinance :: Coordinance (n.) Joint ordinance.

Jointress :: Jointress (n.) A woman who has a jointure.

Hough :: Hough (n.) Same as Hock, a joint..

Paraphysis :: Paraphysis (n.) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants..

Chalkstone :: Chalkstone (n.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A protuberant joint in a plant.

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle..

Rheumatism :: Rheumatism (n.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart..

Antenna :: Antenna (n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids..

Consignificative :: Consignificative (a.) Consignificant; jointly significate.

Parcener :: Parcener (n.) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate..

Passegarde :: Passegarde (n.) A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

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