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A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.

Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order. None could tell whose turn should be the next. Gay.

Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennæ of certain insects.

as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up. "When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited." Z. Swift.

missively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. Shak. -- To put one's nose out of joint, to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] -- To thrust one's nose into, to meddle officiously in. -- To wipe one's nose of, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]

nscience" is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge. South.

A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

of being darkened; darkness. [Obs.] In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon.

sually played by three persons. Pope. When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, And, joined to two, he fails not to make three. Young.

To bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite. [Scot.] Jamieson.

fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious; as:

A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. Evelyn. Cowper.

A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.

To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.

A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.…

To join or fit together; to unite. [Obs.] Halliwell.

An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

forces which act in directions parallel to each other. -- Parallel motion. (a) (Mach.) A jointed system of links, rods, or bars, by which the motion of a reciprocating piece, as a piston rod, may be guided, either approximately or exactly in a straight line. Rankine. (b) (Mus.) The ascending or descending of two or mo…

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.