Join

join, v. [joined (joind), joining.] To bring (Want.) A together, place in contiguity, connect; to a ociate small boat one's self to, be connected with; to effect a union belonging to to add, annex, combine, couple, link. — v. To be a ship. [Dan. contiguous, close, or in contact; to form a league or jolle, D. jol, contract together; to unite. [OF. joindre, E. jun a yawl. q. v.] gerejunctum; Skr. yu, to bind, join, mix, yuj, Jolt, jolt, v. Gr. zeugnunai, to join, connect, E. yoke, adjoin, ad- To shake Jolly-boat. junct, conjugate, jugular, etc.] — Join'der, n. Act of with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage joining; conjunction. (Law.) A joining!of parties moving on rough ground. — v. To shake with as plaintiff's or defendants in a suit, or of causes of sudden jerks, —n. A shock or shake. [ME. joU, action; acceptance of an i ue tendered in law or orig. the jowl(q. v.), then to knock the head, whence fact. — Join'er, n. One who joins; a mechanic who jolt-head joWd head).] — Jolfer, n. — Jolt 'head, does the wood-work in buildings. — Join'ory, -Sr-i, n. A dunce blockhead. [Orig. one whose head n. Art or work of a joiner. — Joint, n. The place or was jolled (knocked) against the wall, — a punish part in which 2 or more things or parts are joined or ment for stupid pupils.] united; junction; articulation; hinge; node; the part Jonquil -quille. jon/kwil, n. A bulbous plant of the or space included between 2 joints, knots, or artic ulan arc is sus family, having lily-like leaves and very tions; a large piece of an animal cut off for cooking. fragrant yellow flowers. [F. jonquille, fr. jonc, L. (Geol.) A deep fi ure or plane of fracture cutting juncus, a rush.] acro the stratification. — a. Joined; united; com- Joram, jo'ram, Jo'rum, n. A large drinking ve el; bined concerted uniting or sharing with others also contents, — nut-brown ale and toast, with shared among more than one; held in common. — v. sugar and spice. [Sw. joid, earth, earthen pot.] To unite by joints, together; to provide with Jo -house, jos'hows, n. A Chinese temple. [Ft.jo , joints, articulate to separate the joints of to cut Chinese corrupt, of Pg. deos = L. deus, god, and up (meat), disjoint. — v. To perfectly; to coahouse.] —stick, n. A small cylinder, made of gum lesce as joints do. [OF. joinct, joint, p. p. of joindre.] mixed with dust of odoriferous woods, which the — Joint er, n. The longest plane used by a joiner. Chinese burn before idols. (Masonry.) A bent piece of iron to secure the joints Jostle, jos'l, Jus'tle, v. [-tled (-Id), -tling.] To of a wall. — Joint'ly, adv. In a joint manner; torun, push, or crowd against, so as to render unget her; unitedly; in concert. — Jointure , n. (Law.) steady to hustle, clash. — v. To hustle, shove A woman who has a jointure. — — Joint'-stock, n. about, elbow, —n. An encounter or shock. [OF. Stock held in company. stool, n. A stool con jouster, to See Just.] sisting of parts inserted in each other. —ten'ancy, Jot, jot, n. An iota; a point; the least quantity n. (Law.) A tenure of estate by unity of interest, a ignable. — To set down; to make a memo title, time, and po e ion, under which the survivrandum of. [D., Heb. yod, the smallest letter in or takes the whole. ten'ant, n. (Law.) One the Heb. alphabet. See Iota.] who holds an estate by joint-tenancy. — Joinfure, Jounce, jowns, v. [jounced (jownst), jouncing.] join'chur, n. (Law.) An estate settled on a wife, To jolt, shake, as by driving over a stone, etc. n. and which she to enjoy after her husband's de- A jolt; shake; hard trot. cease for her own life at least, and in satisfaction of Journal, j5rrnal, n. An account of daily transactions dower. — v. [jointured (-churd), -Turing.] To and events; diary; a record of proceedings; a paper settle a jointure upon. [OF. joincture, L. junctvra, published daily a periodical publication giving orig. fern, of fut. p. of jungere.] —Ju'gular, -gu-lar, an aceount of pa ing events, proceedings of sociea. (Anat.) Pert, to the neck or throat. — n. One ties, etc. (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's of the large veins by which blood returned from course and distance, etc. (Com.) A book in which the head to the heart see Lung. [L. jugulum, the every charge is entered under the date of each collar bone, which joins the shoulders and neck, fr. day. (Mach.) The portion of a shaft or other rejugvm, a yoke.] — Junc'tion, junk's hun, n. Act of volving piece which turns in some other piece, or joining, or state of being joined; union; comb in a in a journal-box a bearing. [F. L. diurnal is, tion; coalition; place or point of union; esp. place daily, fr. dies, a day; same as diurnal.] —Jour'nalwhere lines of railway meet or cro . {L.junctio.] — box, n. The part of a macBine in which the jour-