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Joint efficacy.

Joint efficiency; coöperation. Glanvill.

Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.

Joint estate. Smolett.

A joint executor.

A joint executrix.

responding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.

A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. Knight.

A joint guardian.

A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

A joint herald.

Joint inheritance.

Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance…

To join in praising. [Obs.] Howell.

A joint legatee.

ey. (b) An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York.

To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. Burke.

etimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

United; joined; betrothed. [R.]