"Hinge" is a word in ENGLISH
The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate,
lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather,
which serves as a joint to turn on.
That on which anything turns or depends; a governing
principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on
which the question turned.
To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or
south.
To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend
chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually
with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.
To bend.
Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In the name of the Father,’ he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, ‘and of the Son,’ Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man’s nose, ‘and of the Holy Ghost!
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Mr. Smith was brought to Mercy Hospital (a Catholic hospital),and taken quickly in for coronary surgery. The operation wentwell and, as the groggy man regained consciousness, he wasreassured by a Sister of Mercy, who was waiting by his bed."Mr. Smith, you're going to be just fine," said the nun, gentlypatting his hand. "We do need to know, however, how you intend topay for your stay here. Are you covered by insurance?""No, I'm not," the man whispered hoarsely."Then can you pay in cash?" persisted the nun."I'm afraid I cannot, Sister.""Well, do you have any close relatives?" the nun questionedsternly."Just my sister in New Mexico," he volunteered. "But she's ahumble spinster nun.""Oh, I must correct you, Mr. Smith. Nuns are not spinsters - they are married to God.""Wonderful," said Mr. Smith. "In that case, please send the bill to my brother-in -law."
Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.
Read the complete definitionThe joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
Read the complete definitionIn maritime law. A contract between tbe owner of goods and the master of a ship, by which the former …
Read the complete definitionBeing without joints; jointless.
Read the complete definitionA share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent …
Read the complete definitionA shareholder in joint-stock company.
Read the complete definitionOne of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.
Read the complete definitionHaving no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.
Read the complete definitionWithout joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.
Read the complete definitionTo affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow …
Read the complete definitionángkat - An open seam, a joint, a chink or crack; to get loose, to loosen, to prise apart, to …
Read the complete definitionThe joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.
Read the complete definitionStiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint.
Read the complete definitionA division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The …
Read the complete definitionAn ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.
Read the complete definitionA movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, …
Read the complete definitionUsually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to the joints.
Read the complete definitionAny inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.
Read the complete definitionAn affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.
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