Verb (used without object) : The cinder blocks jointed neatly. From Dictionary.com.
Is a little thin jointed in his upper body, but his frame has the potential to add more growth. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
Some writers, like Collins, refer to a "jointed" or "hinged" axle, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80] Reference
However, crustaceans do share common features such as jointed, paired appendages, and two pairs of antennae. From Wordnik.com. [Arthropoda] Reference
However, crustaceans also share common features such as jointed, paired appendages, and two pairs of antennae. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Many species of Andropogon have such jointed rachises. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
He was angular and loose-jointed, -- he could not help that. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The spikelets are jointed on their pedicels and fall away from them. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The main rachis of the inflorescence is usually jointed at the base. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
He produced from either trousers leg the two parts of a jointed steel bar. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
B. Rachilla of spikelets more or less jointed and breaking up from above downwards. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
His hands are strong and his fingers exceptionally long, splayed and knobby-jointed. From Wordnik.com. [The Cook-And-Tell Chef] Reference
Fay sighed and gave simultaneously with Pooh-Bah the now-familiar triple-jointed shrug. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Inflorescences consist of spiciform racemes with spathaceous bracts; rachis is jointed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The figures would be equipped with ejection buttons and jointed limbs that pulled apart. From Wordnik.com. [Feel Like A Wreck?] Reference
The spikelets are unilaterally biseriate on the rachis which is not jointed at the base. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The Sky's power-lock button means you don't need to be double-jointed to unlock the doors. From Wordnik.com. [Saturn Sky Redline: Fewer clouds overhead] Reference
Spikelets are solitary, binate or fasciculate, 2-flowered, jointed on the pedicel and awned. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
But it turned out to be a freight, which drew its long length past, like a many-jointed snake. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
Pipe-line material is usually galvanized, screw-jointed wrought iron for sizes up to four inches. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
The pedicel is jointed in some genera and in others it is continuous with the spikelet and not jointed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The rachilla is jointed just above the empty glumes and it is produced or not beyond the flowering glumes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The three pairs of legs are jointed and used for running, climbing, jumping, swimming, digging or grasping. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
But the rachilla of the spikelet may be jointed just above the empty glumes or between the flowering glumes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The cartoonist scrambled down from his mount and led the old, stiff-jointed, sway-backed horse up to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
The tickler nearest Gusterson gave (as if to say, "And now -- who knows?") a triple-jointed shrug that stung his memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
The table top should be of hard wood or some non-absorbent material, jointed in narrow strips in order to prevent warping. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
At last we saw it was a stiff-jointed quadruped with some sort of jumping-jack on top, bouncing up and down at every step. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Spikelets 1-flowered, with three glumes; first and second empty, third flowering and awned; rachilla jointed V. Agrostideæ. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
At the end of this lane there swung into view a tall loose-jointed figure which the low strong July sunshine threw into bold relief. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Spikelets are one-flowered, borne unilaterally on the branches, and the base is thickened and jointed on the top of a short pedicel. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Spikelets are 1 - to 2-flowered, jointed on very short pedicels which bear persistent scabrid or barbed bristles (modified branchlets). From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
They were passing a seat close to the edge of the path, upon which a man was sitting -- a middle-aged, loose-jointed man with gray hair. From Wordnik.com. [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference
He left drawings for a jointed bar which, at the proper time, should apparently break in two and leave him dangling to one of the pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
It is the synod of all pates politick, jointed and laid together in most serious posture, and they are not half so busy at the parliament. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The inflorescences are spike-like racemes, consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicelled spikelets jointed on a simple rachis. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
President Barack Obama jointed the fray over the weekend, trumpeting a commitment to safeguard Social Security "today, tomorrow and forever.". From Wordnik.com. [Heated Rhetoric Gets No Vacation in Congress] Reference
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