join hand, joining hand

Writing in which the letters are joined together in words, as distinguished from writing in single letters. *join-ant, a. [O. Fr.] Adjoining, contiguous, adjacent. join-der, *joyn-der, s. [Fr.joindre.] *I. Ord. Lang .: The act of joining; conjunction. "A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , v. 1. II. Law : 1. The joining or coupling of two things in one suit or action. 2. The joining or coupling of two or more parties as defendants in one suit. 3. The acceptance by a party in an action of the challenge laid down in his adversary's demurrer or last pleading. *Joine, v . t . [JOIN, v.] To enjoin. *A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. A junction or mode of joining parts in a struct ure; the place or part where two separate things are joined, either so as to permit motion in the things joined or not; a junction, an articulation, a hinge. "In laying on the lack upon good and fine-joyned work, they frequently spoil the joynts , edges, or corners of drawers or cabinets." -Dampier: Voyages (an. 1688). *2. A limb. 3. One of the larger pieces into which a butcher cuts up a carca . "In bringing a joint of meat, it falls out of your hand." -Swift : Instructions to Servants. II. Technically : 1. Anat .: A joint, or articulation, may be defined to be the union of any two segments of an animal body, through the intervention of a structure or structures different from both. ( Todd & Bowman : Phys. Anat ., i. 131.) The different kinds of joints may be thus cla ified: 1. Synarthrosis: (1) Suture, (2) Schindylesis; (3) Gomphosis, (4) Amphiarthrosis. 2. Diarthrosis: (1) Arthrodia, (2) Enarthrosis, (3) Ginglymus, and (4) Diarthrosis rotator i us. The terms Symphysis, Synchondrosis, Syne urosis, Sy arcosis, and Mennigosis, formerly applied to joints, are now discarded. [See all these words.] 2. Arch .: The surface of contact between two bodies, joined and held together by means of cement, mortar, ., or by a superincumbent weight. 3. Bookbinding : The lateral projection of the back to correspond to or cover er the thickne of the sides. 4. Bot . (pl.): The places at which the pieces of a stem are articulated together. 5. Carp .: A mode of securing together the meeting edges of wooden structures; the place where one piece of timber is united to another. The straight joint is where the edges make a butt-joint, being planed straight. Timbers are generally joined by mortises and tenons, or by straps and bolts. The various kinds of joints are named according to their forms and uses, thus: (1) A butting joint , in carp., is one in which the fibers of one piece are perpendicular to those of the other; in machinery, one in which the pieces meet at right angles. (2) A bevel joint , one in which the plane of the joint is parallel to the fibers of one piece and oblique to those of the other. (3) Dove - tail joint . [DOVETAIL.] (4) A longitudinal joint is one in which the common seam runs parallel with the fibers of both. (5) A miter joint , one formed by the meeting of matching pieces in a frame, the parts uniting on a line bisecting the angle, which is usually, but not nece arily, one of 90°. (6) A square joint , one in which the plane of the joint is at right angles to the fibers of one piece, and parallel to those of the other. (See also mortise, rabbet, scarf, tenon, universal joint, .) Other joints are known by some peculiarity of finish or application, as bracket, chamfered, covering, diamond, frontal, plain, side, sus pended joints. 6. Geol .: A natural fi ure or line of parting traversing rocks in a straight and well-determined line, often at right angles to the planes of stratification. If in a quarry a sufficient number of joints cro each other, the rock is broken up into symmetrical blocks, thus greatly facilitating the labors of the men employed. The faces of the joints are generally smoother and more regular than the sur IMG:content-0138.png:[blocks in formation] Law : A fiat i ued against two or more trading partners by a common creditor. joint-file, s . A small file without taper, and circular in its cro -section. It is used for dre ing out the holes for the joint-wire in snuff-boxes, ., and in preparing the apertures for the pintles of