a. [f. JOINT sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with, constructed with, or having joints (see the various senses of the sb.).
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxxii. 81. They ben wel ioynted and myghtely boned.
a. 1547. Surrey, Æneid, IV. (1557), G ij b. The throwing spirit, and iointed limmes to loose.
1667. Milton, P. L., VII. 409. Or under Rocks thir food In jointed Armour watch.
1721. Pope, Lett. to E. Blount, 3 Oct. I saw her sober over a Sampler, or gay over a joynted Baby.
1880. Huxley, Crayfish, i. 24. The crayfish has a jointed and segmented body.
b. In comb. with qualifying word: Having joints of a specified kind.
1591. Spenser, Muiopotmos, 121. Beeing nimbler ioynted then the rest.
1797. M. Baillie, Morb. Anat. (1807), 188. This head is placed upon a narrow jointed portion of the worm.
1842. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 169. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew’d, they shall dive, and they shall run.
1895. Outing (U.S.), XXVI. 369/1. My single short-jointed rod.
Hence Jointedly adv., connectedly; Jointedness, quality or state of being jointed.
1846. Worcester, Jointedly, in a jointed manner. Smith.
1877. Tinsley’s Mag., XX. 207. When he could talk faintly and jointedly.
1881. Whitney, Mixt. in Lang., 22. Articulation in this its literal sense, of jointedness, is in very truth the characteristic of human speech-utterance.
