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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.</def>

<blockquote>The fingers are <b>jointed</b> together for motion. <i>Ray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. "He <i>joints</i> the neck.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>Quartering, <b>jointing</b>, seething, and roasting. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Joint</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; <as>as, the stones <ex>joint</ex>, neatly</as>.</def>

<h1>Jointed</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint"ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; <as>as, a <ex>jointed</ex> doll; <ex>jointed</ex> structure.</as></def> "The <i>jointed</i> herbage." <i>J. Philips</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Joint"ed*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Jointer</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, joints.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined</def>; especially: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The longest plane used by a joiner</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Coopering)</fld> <def>A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Masonry)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A bent piece of iron inserted to strengthen the joints of a wall.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork.</def>

<h1>Joint-fir</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint"-fir`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus (<spn>Ephedra</spn>) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also <altname>shrubby horsetail</altname>. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.</def>

<h1>Jointing</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced.</def>

<cs><col>Jointing machine</col>, <cd>a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc.</cd> -- <col>Jointing plane</col>. <cd>See <er>Jointer</er>, 2.</cd> -- <col>Jointing rule</col> <fld>(Masonry)</fld>, <cd>a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces.</cd></cs>

<h1>Jointless</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without a joint; rigid; stiff.</def>

<h1>Jointly</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately.</def>

<blockquote>Then <b>jointly</b> to the ground their knees they bow. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jointress</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Joint"ress</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A woman who has a jointure.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>jointuress</asp>.]</altsp>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<h1>Jointure</h1> <Xpage=802>

<hw>Join"ture</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>jointure</ets> a joint, orig., a joining, L. <ets>junctura</ets>, fr. <ets>jungere</ets> to join. See <er>Join</er>, and cf. <er>Juncture</er>.]</ety>