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Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used..

Union :: Union (n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection..

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..

Ankle :: Ankle (n.) The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.

Float :: Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation..

Jointless :: Jointless (a.) Without a joint; rigid; stiff.

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.

Jointer :: Jointer (n.) A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joine.

Butting Joint :: Butting joint () A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint..

Arthropoda :: Arthropoda (n. pl.) A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea..

Bow-compass :: Bow-compass (n.) A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint..

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

Malkin :: Malkin (n.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

Kneejoint :: Kneejoint (n.) The joint of the knee.

Concurrent :: Concurrent (a.) Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts..

Brachiata :: Brachiata (n. pl.) A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea..

Severance :: Severance (n.) The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate..

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

Scaphocerite :: Scaphocerite (n.) A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.

Ischiocerite :: Ischiocerite (n.) The third joint or the antennae of the Crustacea.

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