Dictionary: JOINT'ER – JOLE

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JOINT'ER, n.

A long plane, a joiner's utensil.

JOINT'-HEIR, n. [joint and heir.]

An heir having a joint interest with another. Rom. viii.

JOINT'ING, n.

The snaking of a joint.

JOINT'LY, adv.

  1. Together; unitedly; in concert; with cooperation.
  2. With union of interest; as, to be jointly concerned in a voyage.

JOINT'RESS, a.

A woman who has a jointure. Blackstone.

JOINT'STOOL, n.

A stool consisting of parts inserted in each other. South.

JOINT-TEN'AN-CY, n. [joint and tenant.]

A tenure of estate by unity of interest, title, time and possession. Blackstone.

JOINT-TEN'ANT, a. [joint and tenant.]

One who holds an estate hy joint-tenancy.

JOINT'URE, n. [Fr.]

An estate in lands or tenements, settled on a woman its consideration of marriage, and which she is to enjoy after her husband's decease. Blackstone.

JOINT'URE, v.t.

To settle a jointure upon. Cowley.

JOINT'UR-ED, pp.

Endowed with a jointure.

JOINT'UR-ING, ppr.

Endowing with a jointure.

JOIST, n. [Scot. geist or gest. Qu. Fr. gesir, to lie.]

A small piece of timber, such as is framed into the girders and summers of a building to support a floor. Encyc.

JOIST, v.t.

To fit in joists; to lay joists.

JOIST'ED, pp.

Fitted in joists.

JOIST'ING, ppr.

Laying joists.

JOKE, n. [L. jocus; Dan. giek, a joke; giekker, to joke; Sw. gäcka, to ridicule; G. schlakern.]

  1. A jest; something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive; raillery. A jealous person will rarely bear a joke.
  2. An illusion; something not real, or to no purpose. Inclose whole downs in walls, 'Tis all a joke! Pope. A practical joke is a trick played on a person, sometimes to the injury or annoyance of his body. In joke, in jest; for the sake of raising a laugh; not in earnest.

JOKE, v.i. [L. jocor.]

To jest; to be merry in words or actions.

JOKE, v.t.

To rally; to cast jokes at; to make merry with.

JOK-ED, pp.

Jested; rallied; made merry with.

JOK-ER, n.

A jester; a merry fellow. Dennis.

JOK-ING, ppr.

Jesting; making merry with.

JOK-ING-LY, adv.

In a joking way.

JOLE, n. [sometimes written jowl; Sax. ceole, the jaw or cheek; Ir. gial. Qu. Arm. chagell, contracted.]

  1. The cheek; used in the phrase, cheek by jole, that is, with the cheeks together, close, tête à tête. Dryden.
  2. The head of a fish. Pope.

JOLE, v.t.

To strike the head against any thing; to clash with violence. [Not used.] Shak.