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his wife, with whom he had lived fifty years, only two 
months. He died on the 28th of April, 1802, in 73d year 
of his age. 
JOHNS'TOWN, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Longford -. fix miles north-eaft of Longford. 
JOHNS'TOWN, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Donegal, on the river Foyle: fix miles fouth-fouth-weft 
©f Londonderry. 
JO'FIOR, a town of the peninfula of Malacca, near 
the fouth coaft, and Capital of a kingdom of the fame 
name. In the year 1603 this town was deftroyed by the 
Portuguefe. Lat. 1.4.0. N. Ion. 103. 54.. E. 
JOI'ADA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JOI'AKIM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JOI'ARIB, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JOI'GNY, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrifl, in the department of the Yonne, furrounded with 
thick walls, near the Yonne: fourteen miles north-weft 
of Auxerre, and thirty-four fouth-weft of Troyes. Lat. 
47. 59. N. Ion. 3. 29. E. 
JOI'LAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
To JOIN, v. a. [ joindre , Fr.] To add one to another 
in contiguity.—Woe unto them that join houfe to houfe, 
that lay field to field. I/a. lviii.—To couple; to combine. 
■ —In this faculty of repeating and joining together its 
ideas, the mind has great powers. Locke. — To unite in 
league or marriage : 
One only daughter heirs my crown and ftate, 
Whom not our oracles, nor heav’n, nor fate. 
Nor frequent prodigies, permit to join 
With any native of the Aufonian line. Dryden. 
To dafli together; to collide; to encounter.—They Ihould 
with refolute minds endure, until they might join battle 
with their enemies. Knolles. —To affociate.—Go near, and 
join thyfelf to his chariot. Adis. —To unite in one aft: 
Our belt notes are treafon to his fame, 
Join'd with the loud applaule of public voice. Dryden. 
To unite in concord.—Be perfectly joined together in the 
fame mind. 1 Cor. —To act in concert with: 
Know your own int’reft, fir: where’er you lead, 
We jointly vow to join no other head. Dryden. 
To JOIN, v.n. To grow to; to adhere; to be conti¬ 
guous.—Julius’s houfe joined hard to the fynagogue. A els. 
—To clofe; to clalh.—Look you, all you that kifs my 
lady Peace at home, that our armies join not in a hot 
day. Shakefpeare. 
Here’s the earl of Wiltfhire’s blood. 
Whom I encounter’d, as the battles join'd. Shakefpeare. 
To unite with in marriage, or any other league.—Should 
we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity 
with the people ? Ezra. —To become confederate.—When 
there falleth out any %var, they join unto our enemies, and 
fight againil us. Exodus. —Let us make peace with him, 
before he join with Alexander againft us. 1 Mac. 
Ev’n you yourfelf 
Join wit h the reft; you’re armed againft me. Dryden. 
JOINAGUR'. See Jyenagur. 
JOIN'DER,/. Conjunction; joining. Not ufed: 
A contract and eternal bond of love, 
Confirm’d by mutualyorWer of your hands. Shakefpeare. 
Joinder in Action, the coupling or joining of two 
in a fuit or aflion. In all perfonal things, where two are 
chargeable to two, the one may fatisfy it, and accept of 
fatisfaclion, and bind his companion ; and yet one cannot 
have an aflion without his companion, nor both only 
againft one. 2 Leon. 77. In joint perfonal aftions againft 
two defendants, if they plead feverally, and the plaintiff 
is nonfuited by one before he hath judgment againft the 
other, he is barred (in that fuit) againft both. Hob. 180. 
A perfon, in confideration of a fum of money paid to 
him by A. and B. promifes to procure their cattle dif- 
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trained to be delivered; if they are not delivered, one 
joint aflion lies by the parties ; for the confideration can¬ 
not be divided. Style. 156, 203. 1 Danv. Abr. 5. And, 
where two joint owners of a fum of money are robbed 
upon the highway, they are to join in one aflion againft 
the hundred. It is otherwife if they have feveral pro¬ 
perties. Latch. 127. Dyer 307. 
Tenants in common cannot join in an aflion of wafte 
againft their leffee ; but it is otlierwife in the cafe of co¬ 
parceners, or joint-tenants. Moor 34. SeeTENANT, Joint- 
Tenant, and Action. 
Joinder of Counties. There can be no joinder of 
counties for the finding of an indiflment: though in ap¬ 
peal of death, where a wound was given in one county, 
and the party died in another, the jury were to be re¬ 
turned jointly from each county, before the flat. 2 & 3 
Edw. VI. c. 2. but by that ftatute the law is altered; for 
now the whole may be tried either on indiflment or ap¬ 
peal, in the county wherein the death is. See Indict¬ 
ment and Trial. —Where feveral perfons are arraigned 
upon the fame indiflment or appeal, and feverally plead 
not guilty, the profecutor may either take out a joint ve¬ 
nire or feveral. But, after a joint venire, feveral ones can¬ 
not be taken out. H. P. C. 256. 
Joinder in Demurrer. St*e Demurrer. 
Joinder of Issue. When one party denies the fafl 
pleaded by his antagonift who has tendered the ifiue thus, 
“ And this he prays may be inquired of by the country,” 
or “ And of this he puts himfelf upon the country 
the party denying the fafl, may immediately fubjoin, 
“ And the faid A. B. doth the like.” Which done, the 
iffue is faid to be joined. See Issue. 
JOIN'ER, f. One whofe trade is to make utenfils of 
wood compacted.—The people wherewith you plant ought 
to be fmiths, carpenters, and joiners. Bacon —It is counted 
good workmanfhip in a joiner to bear his hand curioufly 
even. Moxon. 
JOIN'ERY, y. Joinery is an art whereby feveral pieces 
of wood are fo fitted and joined together by ftraight lines, 
fquares, miters, or any bevil, that they fhall feem one en¬ 
tire piece. Moxon. — It is called by the French menuijerie, 
“ fmall work,” to diftinguifii it from carpentry, which is 
employed about large and lefs curious works. 
JQIN'ING, /. The aft of putting together. A con¬ 
junction ; the part in which any two pieces are joined. 
JOINT, f. [ junElura , Lat. jointure, Fr.] Articulation 
of limbs i juncture of moveable bones in animal bodies. 
—Dropfies and afthmas, and_/c?fi?I-racking rheums. Milton. 
— Hinge; junctures which admit motion of the parts.-- 
The coach, the cover whereof was made with fuch joints 
that as they might, to avoid the weather, pull it up clofe 
when they lifted ; fo, when they would, they might re¬ 
main as difeovered and open-fighted as on horfeback. 
Sidney. —In joinery; [jcinte, Fr.]—Straight lines, in join¬ 
ers’ language, is called a. joint, that is, two pieces of wood 
are fiiot, that is, planed. Moxon. —A knot or cotnmiflure 
in a plant. One of the limbs of an animal cut up by the 
butcher.—In bringing a joint of meat, it falls out of your 
hand. Swift. 
Out of Joint. Luxated; flipped from the focket, or 
correlpondent part where it naturally moves.—Jacob’s 
thigh was out of joint. Gen. xxiii. 25.—Thrown into con- 
fufion and diforder; confufed ; full of difturbance: 
The time is out of joint, oh curfed fpight! 
That ever I was born to fet it right. Shakefpeare. 
The fupplenefs to which the joints may be brought by 
long practice, from the time of infancy, is very furprifing. 
Every common pofture-mafter lhows us a great deal of 
this; but one of the molt wonderful inftances we ever 
had of it, was in a perfon of the name of Clark, and fa¬ 
mous for it in London, where he was commonly known 
by the name of Clark the pofurc-maker . This man had 
found the way, by long practice, to diftort many of the 
bones of which nobody before had ever thought it pof- 
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