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To join below or beneath; to subjoin. Wyclif.

To disjoin.

To disjoint.

Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak.

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.

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

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

A brace used to join two or more staves.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

To join; to couple. [R.] The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.

Being without joints; jointless.

Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]

A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]

To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy spe…

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

To add or annex; to join. Leland.

Conjoined; attending; consequent. Though that my death were adjunct to my act. Shak. Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.