Definition of joint

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"Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..

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Vertebrated :: Vertebrated (a.) Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms ophiurans.
Joint :: Joint (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.
Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving..
Hinge :: Hinge (n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on..
Joint :: Joint (v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
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..
Washer :: Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc..
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
Lap-jointed :: Lap-jointed (a.) Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work..
Coexecutor :: Coexecutor (n.) A joint executor.
Pentarchy :: Pentarchy (n.) A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.
Entrochite :: Entrochite (n.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.
Trimera :: Trimera (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.
Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes..
Heteromerous :: Heteromerous (a.) Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles..
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..
Tunicated :: Tunicated (a.) Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects..
Conjoint :: Conjoint (a.) United; connected; associated.
Coestablishment :: Coestablishment (n.) Joint establishment.
Fluvio-marine :: Fluvio-marine (a.) Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers..
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