bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - HUTTONING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.

Related words: (words related to HUTTONING)

  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • JOINTWEED
    A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
  • STIFFENING
    1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
  • FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
    Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
  • JOINTURELESS
    Having no jointure.
  • STIFF
    Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
  • 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,
  • STIFFTAIL
    The ruddy duck.
  • DISLOCATION
    The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. (more info) 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.
  • PAINFUL
    1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
  • STIFFISH
    Somewhat stiff.
  • STIFFNESS
    The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
  • 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.
  • MANIPULATION
    1. The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art. Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind.
  • STIFF-NECKED
    Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
  • STIFF-HEARTED
    Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. Ezek. ii. 4.
  • 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
  • DISLOCATE
    To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the
  • 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.
  • ENFORCIBLE
    That may be enforced.
  • UNJOINTED
    Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym:
  • RESTIFF
    Restive.
  • RESTIFFNESS
    Restiveness.
  • 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.

 

Back to top