The shoulder joint resembles what mechanics call a universal joint, for there is no part of the body which cannot be touched by the hand.

Slice the onions, peel, core, and chop the apple, and cut the fowl into neat joints; fry these in the butter of a nice brown; then add the curry-powder, flour, and gravy, and stew for about 20 minutes.

I take my vow, there be no bread and milk limbs in those fine clothes, but stiff joints and tough thews.

As I walked, it seemed that I could hear my dry joints, creak and crack at every step.

Remove the bones of the other leg in the same manner; then detach the flesh from the backand breast-bone sufficiently to enable you to reach the upper joints of the wings; proceed with these as with the legs, but be especially careful not to pierce the skin of the second joint: it is usual to leave the pinions unboned, in order to give more easily its natural form to the fowl when it is dressed.

The mouth piece and the air pump barrel are made tight to the condenser, and to one another, by means of metallic joints carefully scraped to a true surface, so that a little white or red lead interposed makes an air tight joint.

Cut up the goose into pieces of the size required; the inferior joints, trimmings, &c., put into a stewpan to make the gravy; slice and fry the onions in the butter of a very pale brown; add these to the trimmings, and pour over about a pint of boiling water; stew these gently for 3/4 hour, then skim and strain the liquor.

Sufficient to serve with a middling-sized joint of lamb.

Abraham had risen with creaks of his rheumatic joints, and was now walking up and down the room, his feet lifted slowly and painfully with every step, yet still his blue eyes flashing with the fire of indignant protest.

"Tough joint," he muttered, falling into his old habit of communing with himself.

She could throw any of her joints out of place, but she properly chose her wrist upon this occasion as being the better joint to intrust to a young physician.

Q.Will you explain the proper course to pursue in the production of cylinders? A.In all engines the valve casing, if made in a separate piece from the cylinder, should be attached by means of a metallic joint, as such a barbarism as a rust joint in such situations is no longer permissible.

There is in every animal an impetuous spring, which, on a sudden, gathers all the spirits; distends all the nerves; renders all the joints more supple and pliant; and increases in an incredible manner, upon sudden dangers, his strength, agility, speed, and cunning, in order to make him avoid the object that threatens his destruction.

The round head is connected with the anvil by a movable joint, while the long projection of the anvil is similarly connected with the stirrup bone.

The reason why his pastern-joints show so straight is, that the heels on the hind feet have been badly trimmed when shaving.

So he throws it away, not at the wounded joint, but at the joint above.

The revolution has not annihilated the difference of rank; though it has effected the abolition of titles; and I counsel all who have remains of the gout or inflexible joints, not to frequent the houses of ladies whose husbands have been ennobled only by their offices, of those whose genealogies are modern, or of the collaterals of ancient families, whose claims are so far removed as to be doubtful.

The gloomy and sterile little pictures of "Gaspard de la Nuit," or the elaborate criminality, "Les Contes Immoraux," laboriously invented lifeless things with creaky joints, pitiful lay figures that fall to dust as soon as the book is closed, and in the dust only the figures of the terrible ferryman and the unfortunate Dora remain.

Four ribs, called the middle-rib,greatly esteemed by housekeepers as the most economical joint for roasting.

They an divided into hinge joints, ball-and-socket joints and pivot joints.

Juan cut a mountain bamboo and from its hollow joints gave Maria a refreshing drink.

I know a neat little joint where you'll be as snug as you want.

I have heard a gentleman of some respectability here observe, that our usual dinner was an immense joint of meat half drest, and a dish of vegetables scarcely drest at all.

What do you suggest?" "Well," said Jervis, "it might have been a peculiar finger; a finger, for instance, with some characteristic deformity, such as an ankylosed joint, which would be easy to identify.

Some joints lack one or more, and are therefore called imperfect joints.