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Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.

A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson. [Written also Johnsonism.]

ect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. Woe unto them that join house to house. Is. v. 8. Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined. Shak. Thy tuneful voice with numbers join. Dryden.

Adjoining. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction. Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands. Shak.

One who, or that which, joins.

The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. A piece of joinery . . . whimsically dovetailed. Burke.

Writing in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters. Addison.

The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.

A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.

Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. "The jointed herbage." J. Philips. -- Joint"ed*ly, adv.

One who, or that which, joints.

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.…

Without a joint; rigid; stiff.

In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately. Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow. Shak.

A woman who has a jointure. [Written also jointuress.] Blackstone.

A joining; a joint. [Obs.]

Having no jointure.

See Jointress. Bouvier.

A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.