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ling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness. James Law. Curb bit, a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight. -- Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairspring.…

tëgmînê, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]

To disjoint.

n from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.

One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.

, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time,…

The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

; to loosen; to undo; to separate. Nothing can dissolve us. Shak. Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder. Fairfax. For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. The Declaration of Independence.

Disjointedly; madly. Shak.

To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite. South.

police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

ail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a sa…

A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. -- Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n.,

Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.