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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.

s found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.

An adjunct; a helper. [Obs.]

A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

United; connected; associated. "Influence conjoint." Glover. Conjoint degrees (Mus.), two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson. Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also wr…

In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together. Sir T. Browne.

The qquality of being conjoint.