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Conjoint :: Conjoint (a.) United; connected; associated.

Joint :: Joint (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.

Articulated :: Articulated (a.) United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton..

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

Coexecutor :: Coexecutor (n.) A joint executor.

Entrochal :: Entrochal (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble..

Encrinoidea :: Encrinoidea (n. pl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea..

Co- :: Co- () A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-..

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..

Tabasheer :: Tabasheer (n.) A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases..

Abarticulation :: Abarticulation (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis..

Hough :: Hough (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man..

Concause :: Concause (n.) A joint cause.

Rabbet :: Rabbet (n.) Same as Rabbet joint, below..

Exarticulate :: Exarticulate (a.) Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.

Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy

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..

Coestablishment :: Coestablishment (n.) Joint establishment.

Meropodite :: Meropodite (n.) The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

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