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Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

eculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Having straight joints. Specifically:

To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.

An additional remark. [R.]

To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

See Tierce, 4.

A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.

To join below or beneath; to subjoin. Wyclif.

To disjoin.

To disjoint.

Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak.

A superior force which under certain circumstances is held to exempt from contract obligations; inevitable accident; -- a civil-law term used as nearly equivalent to, but broader than, the common-law term act of God (which see).

A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the n…

An abacus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Obeisance. [Obs.] Jonson.

Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.