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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjoined p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining. ] [ OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct. ] To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. [ 1913 Webster ]

When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To join one's self. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She lightly unto him adjoined side to side. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Contiguous. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. “The adjoining fane.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adjunct; a helper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjourned p. pr. & vb. n. Adjourning ] [ OE. ajornen, OF. ajoiner, ajurner, F. ajourner; OF. a (L. ad) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. Cf. Journal, Journey. ] To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis a needful fitness
That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend. -- To Adjourn, Prorogue, Dissolve. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjournment; postponement. [ R. ] “An adjournal of the Diet.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn. ] 1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The adjutant of a regiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + jog. ] On the jog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. à jour, open to day. ] of or pertaining to objects which are pierced or decorated with an openwork pattern. RHUD 1.3 [ PJC. ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Written also ajwain. ] [ Prob. native name. ] (Bot.) The fruit of Ammi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.. A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Back, a. or adv. + joint. ] (Arch.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., fr. bajo brown, bay, from its color. ] A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly also banjore and banjer; corrupted from bandore, through negro slave pronunciation. ] A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and a circular body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Bijoux [ F.; of uncertain origin. ] A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bijouterie. See Bijou. ] Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An act of fellatio, a form of oral sex; -- a slang term. See blow{ 11 }, v. i. [ Vulgar slang ]
Syn. -- cock sucking. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

fld>(Zool.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 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; -- sometimes called abutting joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cajoled p. pr. & vb. n. Cajoling. ] [ F. cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale, jaiole, F. geôle, dim. of cage a cage. See Cage, Jail. ] To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson.

Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flatterer; a wheedler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cajoleries A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. “Infamous cajoleries.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably a Canadian French corruption of an Indian name of the wolverene. ] (Zool.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Mex. Sp. ] Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [ Sp. Amer. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.
Syn. -- huckster, hawker, tout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. circum- + L. Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jove. ] One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter. [ Obs. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To join; to conjoin. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conjoined p. pr. & vb. n. Conjoining. ] [ F. conjoindre, fr. L. conjungere, -junctum; con- + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Conjugate, Conjunction. ] To join together; to unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

The English army, that divided was
Into two parties, is now conjoined in one. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To unite; to join; to league. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Joined together or touching. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. conjoint, p. p. of conjoindre. See Conjoin, and cf. Conjunct. ] United; connected; associated. “Influence conjoint.” Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conjoint degrees (Mus.), two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson. --
Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also written conjunct. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being conjoint. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors. [ 1913 Webster ]

This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. --
Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dame-jeanne, i.e., Lady Jane, a corruption of Ar. damajāna, damjāna, prob. fr. Damaghan a town in the Persian province of Khorassan, once famous for its glass works. ] A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who plays records or compact disks of recorded music; especially, a person who selects and plays recorded music for broadcast over the radio, often making comments about the music or other topics and also announcing commercial advertising messages; also, one who plays recorded music at a dance or social gathering, especially as a profession. [ Also spelled disk jockey. ]
Syn. -- DJ. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disjoined p. pr. & vb. n. Disjoining. ] [ OF. desjoindre, F. disjoindre, déjoindre, fr. L. disjungere; dis- + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Disjoint, Disjunct. ] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

Syn. -- To disunite; separate; detach; sever; dissever; sunder; disconnect. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become separated; to part. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. unconnected, detached. joined
Syn. -- disconnected, separate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OF. desjoint, p. p. of desjoindre. See Disjoin. ] Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]