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To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined. The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken. Mure. Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. D. Webster.

in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all…

Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected. [Obs.] Lime and wood are insociable. Sir H. Wotton.

The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.

unted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties. And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line Pope. The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. I. Taylor.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

To join together.

To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen.

A mutual joining. [R.]

To link together; to join, as one chain to another. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

A part between two joints; a segment; specifically, one of the phalanges.

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. I do invest you jointly with my power. Shak.

parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.

passion or disease (Med.), a rheumatic or neuralgic affection of some part about the hip joint; -- called also sciatica.

Of or pertaining to the ischium and the capsule of the hip joint; as, the ischiocapsular ligament.

The third joint or the antennæ of the Crustacea.