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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.
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Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
n.
One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.
n.
A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
a.
Having three joints.
n.
The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
v. t.
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
a.
Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.
n.
The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
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Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms ophiurans.
n.
One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
n.
Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce.
n. pl.
A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.
a.
Having four joints in each of the tarsi; -- said of certain insects.
v. t.
To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
a.
Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem.
a.
Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
n.
Any one of a numerous tribe of beetles (Serricornia). The joints of the antennae are prominent, thus producing a serrate appearance. See Illust. under Antenna.
n. pl.
A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.
a.
Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
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