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Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay .

In a jesting manner.

The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule (Masonry), a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces.…

In a jolting manner.

A kind of early apple. [Written also jenneting.]

A feast or entertainment; a revel. All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. W. Irving. The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South.

Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.

A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.

The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting.

Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.

In a lamenting manner.

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

In a lasting manner.

Used in, or for, or by, lifting. Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. -- Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. -- Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. (Mach.) (a) A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level. (b) A pump wh…

A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.

The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.

Swarming and devastating like locusts. [R.] Tennyson.

Same as Lofter.