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Word Meanings - JOINTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without a joint; rigid; stiff.

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  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • JOINTWEED
    A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
  • RIGID
    1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
  • RIGIDLY
    In a rigid manner; stiffly.
  • STIFFENING
    1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
  • JOINTURELESS
    Having no jointure.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • STIFF
    Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
  • JOINTING
    The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
  • STIFFTAIL
    The ruddy duck.
  • STIFFISH
    Somewhat stiff.
  • STIFFNESS
    The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
  • RIGIDITY
    1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
  • RIGIDULOUS
    Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
  • JOINTURESS
    See BOUVIER
  • JOINTED
    Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. "The jointed herbage." J. Philips. -- Joint"ed*ly, adv.
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • STIFF-NECKED
    Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
  • STIFF-HEARTED
    Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. Ezek. ii. 4.
  • UNJOINT
    To disjoint.
  • STRAIGHT-JOINT
    Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
  • DISJOINT
    Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
  • UNJOINTED
    Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym:
  • RESTIFF
    Restive.
  • RESTIFFNESS
    Restiveness.
  • DISJOINTED
    Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
  • LAP-JOINTED
    Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
  • REJOINT
    1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow. 2. Specifically , to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.

 

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