jointweed

[Eng. joint, and weed.] Bot .: An American name for Polygonum articula tum . Joist, Joyste, *giste, *gyst, *gyste, *gyyste, 8. [O. Fr. giste (Fr. gite )=a bed, couch, or joist, from O. Fr. gésir =to lie, to lie on.] BRIDGING JOIST Carp.: A horizontal timber supporting a floor or ceiling, one or both. Single flooring is formed with joists reaching from wall to wall, where they rest on plates of timber built into the brickwork. The floorboards are nailed on the upper edges of the joists, whose lower edges receive the lathing and plastering of the ceilings. Double floors are constructed with stout binding joists, a few feet apart, reaching from wall to wall and supporting ceiling-joists, which BINDING JOIST CEILING JOIST Joists. carry the ceiling, and bridging-joists, on which are nailed the floor-boards. When the main timbers of the floor are girders which rest on the wall-plates and support the binding-joists, the floor is called a framed floor. The binding-joists support the bridg. ing-joists and ceiling-joists as before. The trimming-joists are short joists into which trimmers are mortised. Trimmers are pieces around a fire-hearth or a hatchway, where the continuity of the joists is broken. [TRIMMER.] Joist, v . t . [JoIST, 8.] To fit or furnish with joists. Jōke, s. [Lat. jocus ; Sp. juego ; Ital. gioco ; Fr. jeu .] 1. Something said or done for the purpose of causing laughter or merriment; a jest; raillery. 2. Something not real; something not done in earnest or seriously meant. In joke : In jest; not in earnest, but for the purpose of causing laughter or merriment; not seriously meant. Gay: Trivia , ii. 415. *jōle, *jōll, v . t . [JOLE, s.] To beat or dash the head against anything; to strike or clash with violence. *Jol-if, *jol-yf, a. [Fr.] Jolly, merry, handsome. jo-lif-fi-a, s. [Named by Bojer after his friend M. Joliffe.] Bot .: An old genus of Cucurbit aceæ, tribe Nhandirobeæ. Joliffia african a is now called Tel fair i a pedata . 2408