Butting joint () A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts |
Butt joint () A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8. |
Feather (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. |
Feather (n.) Kind |
Feather (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. |
Feather (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. |
Feather (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. |
Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise |
Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. |
Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water. |
Feather (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. |
Feather (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers |
Feather (v. t.) To render light as a feather |
Feather (v. t.) To enrich |
Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock. |
Feather (v. i.) To grow or form feathers |
Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers |
Feather (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane |
Feather (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers |
Feather-brained/ (a.) Giddy |
Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. |
Feather-edge/ (n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor. |
Feather-edged/ (a.) Having a feather-edge |
Feather-few/ (n.) Feverfew. |
Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves. |
Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Feather-headed (a.) Giddy |
Feather-heeled (a.) Light-heeled |
Feather-pated (a.) Feather-headed |
Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib. |
Hooke's joint () A universal joint. See under Universal. |
Joint (n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united |
Joint (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion |
Joint (n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations |
Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. |
Joint (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. |
Joint (n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc. |
Joint (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. |
Joint (a.) Joined |
Joint (a.) Involving the united activity of two or more |
Joint (a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others |
Joint (a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more |
Joint (v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints |
Joint (v. t.) To join |
Joint (v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints |
Joint (v. t.) To separate the joints |
Joint (v. i.) To fit as if by joints |
Joint-fir (n.) A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed |
Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. |
Straight-joint (a.) Having straight joints. |