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the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson.

An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.

touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

A disorder of speech in which words can be uttered but not intelligibly joined together.

ith some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation. Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation. Macaulay. The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin.

on. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

Pertaining to the joints. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.

Chondritis of a joint.

Surgical fixation of joints.

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic.

The description of joints.

That part of anatomy which treats of joints.

Any disease of the joints.

A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.

A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints.

Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.