Word Meanings - SHAREHOLDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.
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- JOINTWEED
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. - SHAREBEAM
The part of the plow to which the share is attached. - JOINTURELESS
Having no jointure. - 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, - PROPERTY
All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge - SHAREBROKER
A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities. - JOINT
A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. (more info) 1. The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting - 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. - SHAREWORT
A composite plant growing along the seacoast of Europe. - JOINTER
1. One who, or that which, joints. 2. A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined; especially: The longest plane used by a joiner. A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves. A bent piece - SHARER
One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer. - JOINTWORM
The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly , which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop. - SHARE
1. The part of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare. 2. The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed. Knight. - SHAREHOLDER
One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property. - SHAREBONE
The public bone. - JOINTLESS
Without a joint; rigid; stiff. - JOINTLY
In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately. Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow. Shak. - JOINTRESS
A woman who has a jointure. Blackstone. - JOINTURE
An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower. The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised. Shak. (more info) 1. A joining; - 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: - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety. - 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. - CONJOINTLY
In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together. Sir T. Browne. - SHORT-JOINTED
Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short. - WATER JOINT
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. - BACKJOINT
A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.