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Society :: Society (n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society..

Franking :: Franking (n.) A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter..

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. i.) To fall in pieces.

Sprain :: Sprain (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle..

Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture..

Joint :: "Joint (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation..

Stipes :: Stipes (n.) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.

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..

Synarthrodia :: Synartesis (n.) A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.

Consignature :: Consignature (n.) Joint signature.

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

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it..

Ham :: Ham (n.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

Elbow :: Elbow (n.) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent..

Culmiferous :: Culmiferous (a.) Having jointed stems or culms.

Rule :: Rule (a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly..

Grout :: Grout (v. t.) To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones..

Knuckle :: Knuckle (n.) The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers..

Parting :: Parting (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam..

Vertebra :: Vertebra (n.) One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.

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