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bel, jobbet, a small load.) 1. A piece of work Job's-tears (jobz'tērz), n. A plant, Coix Jocundly (jok'und-li), adv. In a jocund taken on the occasion; any petty work or Lachryma. See Coix.

manner; merrily; gaily. undertaking at a stated price; anything to Job-watch (job'woch), n. Same as Hack- Joe (jo), n. See JOHANNES. be done, whether of more or less import- watch.

Joe, Joey (jo, jõ'i), n. A slang name for a ance; as, the carpenter or mason under- Jocantryt (jok'ant-ri), n... [From L. jocans, groat: so called from Joseph Hume, M.P., takes to build a house by the job. -- 2. An jocantis, ppr. of jocor, to jest, from jocus, who strongly recommended the coin for the undertaking with a view to profit; a public jest.] The act or practice of jesting.

purpose of paying short cab fares. transaction done for private profit; an Jockey (jok'i), n. [A word of doubtful ety. Joe-Miller (jö-miler), n. (After Jor or undertaking set on foot for the purpose mology: by some said to be the northern Joseph Miller, a comic actor of the early of some private, unfair, or unreasonable form of Jackey, dim. of Jack, for John (see part of the eighteenth century, whose name emolument or benefit; something performed JACK); by others, to be of Gypsy origin, was attached to a jest-book, which became ostensibly as a part of official duty, but from chukni, a whip. See extract under very popular, published in 1739, the year really for the gain it brings.

JOCKEYISM.) 1. A man whose profession it after his death.) An old jest; a stale joke; No cheek is known to blush nor heart to throb,

is to ride horses in horse-races.--2. A dealer also, a jest-book. (Colloq. ] Save when they lose a question or a joo. Pope. in horses; one who makes it his business to Joe-Millerism (jö-mil'ér-izm), n. The art -To do the job for one, to kill him.

buy and sell horses for gain. --3. A cheat; or practice of making, reciting, or retailing Job (job), v.t. 1. To let out in separate por

one who deceives or takes undue advantage jests; the repetition of stale or flat jokes; an in trade.

old jest. tions, as work, among different contractors or workmen, with the view of having it exeJockey (jok'i), v.t. pret. & pp. jockeyed or Joe-Millerize (jö-mil'ér-iz), v.t.

To give a cuted.--2. To let out, as horses or carriages

jockied; ppr. jockeying. 1. To play the jesting or jocular character to; to mingle for hire.-3. To engage for one's own use for

jockey to; to cheat; to trick; to deceive in with jokes or jests. Sat. Rev.

trade. hire; as, noblemen generally job carriage

Jog (jog), v.t. pret. & pp. jogged; ppr. jogging. horses in London.

I see too well by the smile on his face that he [Perhaps a form of jag, or allied to shock, or thinks he has jockied you.

5. Baillie. W. gogi, to shake.) To push or shake with Then she went to the liveryman from whom she

the elbow or hand; to give notice or excite 2. To jostle by riding against. Johnson. jobbed her carriages.

Thackeray.
3. To conduct, as a bill for the promotion of

attention by a slight push.
4. To buy in large quantity and sell in
some scheme through the legislature, or to

Sudden I jogged Ulysses.

Pope. smaller lots, as a broker from an importer procure the rejection of, as of an opponent's Jog (jog), v.i. 1. To move by jogs or small of goods; as, to job cotton; to job cigars. measure, by equivocal or dishonest means.

shocks, like those of a slow trot: in this and Job (job), v. i. 1. To deal in the public stocks;

Here's your railways carried, and your neighbours' to buy and sell as a broker. -2. To work at

in the second sense generally followed by railways jockeyed.

Dickens,

on. chance work. -3. To let a horse, carriage, Jockey-club (jok'i-klub), n. A club or asso- So hung his destiny, never to rot, and the like, for a short time; to hire a horse, carriage, &c., for a short time, for ciation of persons interested in horse-rac- While he might still jog on, and keep his trot.

Milton. one's own use. ing, &c.

2. To walk or travel idly, heavily, or slowly; Jockeyism (jok'i-izm), n. Practice of Very few nobleinen at present bring their carriage

to get through life with but little progress. jockeys. horses to town; they nearly all job, as it is invariably called.

Thus they jog on, still tricking, never thriving.
Mayhew.
Fockeyism properly means the management of a

Dryden. whip, and the word jockey is neither more nor less 4. To do work so as to make it subserve one's than the term (chakni), slightly modified, by which Jog (jog), n. 1. A push; a slight shake; a private ends; to pervert public service to they (the gipsies) designate the formidable whips shake or push intended to give notice or private advantage.

which they usually carry, and which are at present awaken attention. "To give them by turns

in general use among horse-traffickers, under the title an invisible jog.' Swift.--2. Irregularity of And judges job, and bishops bite the town,

of jockey-whips.

Borrow. And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown.

motion caused by a stoppage or obstruction. Pope. Jockeyship (jok'i-ship), n. 1. The art or

'Penetrates all bodies without the least jog Job (job), a. A term applied to a miscellanpractice of riding horses.

or obstruction.' Glanville.-3. In mech. a eous assortment of articles sold together,

Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship. Chatterton. square notch. and generally with the idea that they are 2. The character of being a jockey; a jockey;

Jogelour, t n. A juggler. Chaucer. sold at a figure considerably under the or- one who bears the character of a jockey. Jogger (jog'ėr), n. 1. One who jogs or walks dinary trade price.

Where can at last his jockeyship retire? Cowper.

or moves heavily and slowly. Fellow jogJob (jõh), v. t. pret. & pp. jobbed; ppr. jobbing. Joconde, t a. Jocund (which see). Chaucer.

gers of the plough.' Dryden. -2. One who (O. and Prov. E. job, to strike, hit, or peck;

jogs or gives a sudden push. Jocose (jõk-os'), a. (L. jocosus, from jocus, probably from the Celt. gob, mouth. See a joke.] 1. Given to jokes and jesting;

Joggle (jog?), v.t. pret. & pp. joggled; ppr. GOB.) i. To strike or stab with a sharp inmerry; waggish: said of persons.

joggling: [Freq. of jog.) 1. To shake slightly; strument. L'Estrange. --2. To drive in a

to give a sudden but slight push; to jostle. sharp-pointed instrument. Moxon.

Focose and pleasant with an adversary whom they would choose to treat in a very different manner,

2. In carp. to join or match by jogs or notches Job (job), n. A sudden stab or prick with a

Shaftesbury.

so as to prevent sliding apart. pointed instrument. (Scotch.) 2. Containing a joke; sportive; merry; as,

Joggle (jogʻl), v.i. To push; to shake; to Job, Jobe (jõb), v.t (From Job, the patri- jocose or comical airs.--SYN. ind, face

totter. arch, in allusion to the rebukes he received tious, witty, merry, pleasant, waggish, spor

Joggle (jogl), n. 1. In arch. the joint of stones from his comforters.] To chide; to repri- tive.

or other bodies, so constructed as to prevent mand. (Slang. ) Jocosely (jõk-ös'li), adv. In a jocose man

them sliding past each other by any force Jobation (jõb-á'shon), n. (See last art.) A ner; in jest; for sport or game; waggishly.

acting perpendicular to the pressure or scolding; a long tedious reproof. [Vulgar.) Jocoseness (jõk-os'nes), n. The quality of Jobber (job'er), n. 1. One who does small being jocose; waggery; merriment. jobs; one who works at chance work. -- Joco-serious (jo-ko-sē'ri-us), a. Partaking 2. One who lets or hires out carriages or of mirth and seriousness. horses for a time.-3. One who purchases Jocosity (jök-õs'i-ti), n. 1. Jocularity; mergoods from importers and sells to retailers; riment; waggery. a dealer in public stocks.-4. One who ren- A laugh there is of contempt or indignation, as well ders the discharge of public duty subservient as of inirth or jocosity.

Sir T. Browne. to private ends; an intriguer who turns

2. A jocose act or saying; a joke. public work to his own or his friends' ad- | Jocteleg (jok'te-leg), n. [From a famous vantage; hence, one who performs low or cutler named Jacques de Liége, or James of dirty work in office, politics, or intrigue. Liége.] A large pocket-knife. (Scotch.] Jobber-nowl (job'er-nól), n. [O. E. jobarde,

aa, Joggle-joints. 16, The last Joggle.

An' gif the custock's sweet or sour, a foolish fellow, and nowl, noll, head or

Wi joctelegrs they taste them. Burns.

pressures by which they are held together; top.) A loggerhead; a blockhead. Hudibras. (Low.)

Jocular (jok’ū-lér), a. [L. jocularis, from a joint held in place by means of pieces of Jobbery (job'er-i), n.

jocus, a joke.) 1. Given to jesting; jocose; stone or metal introduced into it. --2. The Act or practice of

merry; waggish: said of persons. - 2. Conjobbing; unfair and underhand means used

piece of metal or stone used in such a joint. taining jokes; sportive; not serious; as, a Joggle-joint (jog'l-joint), n. Same as to procure some private end; the act of

jocular expression or style.-SYN. Jocose, Joggle, n. 1. turning public matters to private advantage.

facetious, humorous, witty, merry, pleasant, Joggle-piece (jogl-pēs), n. In arch. a truss I now come to what are distinct imputations of waggish, sportive.

post, whose shoulders and sockets are jobbery, and where that is flourishing or easy no

The quality
Jocularity (jok-ū-lar'i-ti), n.

formed to receive the lower end of a brace system can be other than vicious. Mayhew. of being jocular; merriment; jesting:

or strut. Jobbing (job'ing), a. A term applied to a Jocularly (jok'ü-lér-li), adv. In a jocular Jogi, Jogie (jogʻi), n. In the East Indies, person who works by the job, that is, exemanner; in jest; for sport or mirth.

the name given to a Hindu devotee; a yogi; cutes for a certain hire such pieces of work Jocularyt (jok'ú-la-ri), a. Jocular.

a mendicant. as occasion throws in his way; as, a jobbing Joculator (jok’ū-lat-ér), a. (L.) An old name Jog-trot (jogʻtrot), n. (og and trot.), A gardener, &c.

for a professional jester. See JUGGLER. slow motion on horseback; hence, a slow Job-master (job'mas-tér), n. One who hires Joculatory (jok'ú-la-to-ri), a. Droll; merrily routine mode of performing daily duty to or lets out carriages, horses, &c. said.

which one pertinaciously adheres. Why, sir,' said a job-master to me, 'everybody Jocund (jok'und), a. [L. jocundus, jucundus; Jog-trot (jog'trot), a. Monotonous; easyjobs now. .. It's a cheaper and better plan for connected with juvenis, a young man; E.

going; humdrum. those that must have good horses and handsome

Mayhew.

young.) Merry, lively; cheerful; blithe; carriages.

He had, however, subsided into the jog.trot rou. gleeful; gay; mirthful; airy; sprightly; spor- tine which at his instigation I had abandoned. Job-printer (job'print-ér), n. A printer tive; light-hearted. 'Rural sports and jo

Theodore Hook. who does miscellaneous work, as bills, pro- cund strains.' Prior.

Johannes (jo-han'ēz), n. [Mod. L.; Gr. grammes, circulars, cards, &c.

The sky.larks sang in jocund rivalry, mounting annés, John.) A Portuguese gold coin of the Job's-comforter (jobz'kum-fert-er), n, One higher and higher as if they would have beaten their value of 368. : contracted often into Joe; as, who pretends to sympathize with you in wings against the sun.

Cornhill Mag. a joe or half-joe. It is named from the trouble, but adds to your afflictions by attri- | Jocundity, Jocundness (jo-kund’i-ti, jok'- figure of King John, which it bears. buting them to your own misconduct. und-nes), n. State of being jocund or Johannisberg (jo-han'is-berg), n. [From (Colloq.) merry; gaiety.

the castle of the name near Wiesbaden,

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A contract of eternal bond of love,

ceases to act when the angle between the

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The finest and most expensive of the Rhen-
Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands.

shafts is less than 140' and the motion transish wines.

2. In law, (a) the coupling or joining of two mitted is variable in proportion as the angle Johannite (jo-han'it), n. A mineral of an things in a suit or action against another. diminishes. These disadvantages are cor

emerald or apple-green colour, a hydrous (6) The coupling of two or more persons to- rected by using the double joint, fig. 2, in sulphate of the protoxide of uranium. gether as defendants. (c) The acceptance which two crosses are employed, and conJohn (jon), n. A proper name, sometimes by a party in an action of the challenge laid nected by a separate link d. -Out of joint,

used humorously or in contempt to desig. down in his adversary's demurrer or last dislocated, as when the head of a bone is nite an awkward rude person. --John Bud, pleading.

displaced from its socket;hence, figuratively, the sportive collective name of the English Joine, t v.t. To enjoin. Chaucer.

confused; disordered, people, first used in Arbuthnot's satire The Joiner (join'ér), n. 1. One who joins. Spe

The jaundiced eye; History of John Bul. It is generally em- cifically - 2. One whose occupation is to con- Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are ployed to convey the idea of an honest, struct things by joining pieces of wood by

out of joint.

Tennyson, blunt, but in the main good-natured cha- means of glue, framing, or nails; but appro- 2. In geol. a fissure or line of parting in racter. - John Doe, in law proceedings, the priately and usually, a mechanic who does

rocks at any angle to the plane of stratificaname formerly given to the fictitious lessee the wood-work for the internal and exterof the plaintiff in the mixed action of eject- nal finishings of houses. See CARPENTRY.

j ment. He was sometimes called Good-title. Joinery (join'èr-i), n. The art of a joiner; The fictitious defendant in this action was the art or practice of framing or joining called Richard Roe.

wood-work for the external and internal
John-apple, 1. A sort of apple good for finishing of houses, such as doors, sashes,
spring use when other fruit is spent, as it shutters, stairs, &c. See CARPENTRY.
long retains its freshness.

Join-hand (join'hand), n. Writing in which
John-crow Vulture (jon'krõ vultūr), n. letters are joined in words, as distinguished
The local name in Jamaica for the turkey- from writing in single letters.
buzzard.

Joining (join'ing), n. A joint.
John-dory (jon-do'ri), n. [Corruption of Fr. Joining-hand (join'ing-hand), n. Same as
jaune, yellow, and dorée, gilt.] See DOREE. Join-hand (which see).
Johnny-cake (jon'i-kāk), n. In America, (a) Joint (joint), n. (Fr. joint, from joindre, pp.
a cake made of the meal of maize, mixed joint, to join. See JOIN.] 1. The place or
with water, and baked on the hearth. (6) A part in which two separate things are joined

ji. Joints. cc, Cracks. New Englander.

or united; the mode of connection of two Johnny-raw (jon-i-ra'), n. A raw beginner; things with the closely contiguous parts tion. The partings which divide columnar a novice; a boor. (Sportive.)

connected, the connection being such as basalt into prisms are joints. See CLEAVAGE. Johnsonese (jon-son-ěz'), n. The style or either to permit motion in the things con

In regard to joints, they are natural fissures which language of Dr. Johnson, or an imitation of nected or not; juncture; articulation; hinge. often traverse rocks in straight or well-defined lines. it; a pompous inflated style, especially affect.

A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel,

The joints are straight-cut chinks, often slightly ing words of classical origin.

Must glove this hand.

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open, and passing not only through layers of succes. When he wrote for publication, he (Johnson) did

síve deposition but also through balls of limestone Specifically, (a) in anat. the joining of two or other matter.

Lydi. his sentences out of English into Fohnsonese.

Macaulay.

or more bones; an articulation, as the elbow, 3. A limb. (Madame D'Arblay's later style) is a sort of broken the knee, or the knuckle. (b) In bot. a node

This swain because of his great linib or joint shall Fohnsonese. Macaniay. or knot; also, the part between two nodes;

pass Poinpey the Great.

Siah. Johnsonian (jon-so'ni-an), a. Relating to an internode; as, the joint of a cane or of a Dr. Johnson, his writings or style ; long- stalk of wheat. (c) In arch, the surface of

4. One of the large pieces into which a worded; pompous. contact between two bodies that are held

carcass is cut up by the butcher.

Joint (joint), a. 1. Shared by two or more: Johnsonianism, Johnsonism (jon-so'ni- firmly together by means of cement, mortar, an-izm, jon'son-izm), n. A word or idiom &c., or by a superincumbent weight; as, the

as, joint property. A joint burden laid peculiar to Dr. Johnson, or a style resem

Shak.-2. United in the same joint between two stones. (d) În rail. the

upon us all. bling his. place where the ends of two rails meet, or the

profession; having an interest in the same John's-wort (jonz' wert), n. See SAINT mode in which they are connected. (e) In

thing: used in composition; as, a joint-heir JOHN'S-WORT. carp. and joinery, the place where or the

or heiress.--3. United; combined; acting in Join (join), v.t. [Fr. joindre, from L. jungere, mode in which one piece of timber is con

concert; as, a joint force; joint efforts; joint junctum, to join (whence junction, conju- nected with another. Pieces of timber are

vigour. gate, &c.); same root as Skr. yuj, to join; framed and joined to one another most gen.

Joint (joint), v.t. 1. To form with a joint E. yoke.] 1. To connect or bring together, erally by mortises and tenons, of which there

or joints; to articulate. literally or figuratively; to place in contig- are several kinds, and by iron straps and The fingers are jointed together for motion, and

furnished with several muscles.

Ray. uity; to couple; to combine; to associate. bolts. Joints receive various names accord

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay ing to their forms and uses.- A longitudinal 2. To unite by a joint or joints; to prepare field to field.

Is. v. 8. joint is one in which the common seam runs by straightening, smoothing, or the like, so What therefore God hath joined together, let not parallel with the fibres of both. --A butting as to fit closely; to fit together; as, to joint man put asunder.

Mat. xix. 6. or butt joint is one in which the plane of the pieces of timber. - 3. To unite closely; to Thy tuneful voice with numbers join. Dryden. joint is at right angles to the fibres, and the join. Their nature also to thy nature join. Milton. fibres of both pieces in the same straight

The times's state 2. To engage in; to make one's self a party line. -A square joint is one in which the

Made friends of them, jointing their force 'gainst
Casar.

Shak. in; as, to join battle. *To join their dark plane of the joint is at right angles to the

4. To cut or divide into joints or pieces; encounter in mid air.' Milton.

fibres of one piece, and parallel to those of Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abun. the other.-- A bevel joint is a joint in which to separate the joints of. dance, and joined affinity with Ahab. 2 Ch. xviii. 1. the plane of the joint is parallel to the fibres He joints the neck, and with a stroke so strong 3. To associate or connect one's self with; of one piece, and oblique to those of the The helm flies off and bears the head along,

Dryden. to become connected with; to unite with; to

other. -A mitre joint is one in which the enter or become a member of, as a society; plane of the joint makes oblique angles with

Joint (joint), v. i. To coalesce as by joints, or to merge in; as, he joined the army, the both pieces. -- Dove-tail joint. See DOVE

as parts mutually fitted to one another; as, church, or the society; this river joins the TAIL. -Scarf joint. See SCARF. See also stones cut so as to joint into each other. MORTISE, TENON.- Universal joint, in mech.

Joint-chair (joint'chär), n. other.

In railways. We jointly vow to join no other head. Dryden. an arrangement by which one part of a

the chair which occurs at the jointing of 4.1 To command; to enjoin. machine may be made to move freely in

two rail ends. See under CHAIR. all directions in relation to another. A Jointed (joint'ed). p. and a. Provided with They join their penance, as they call it. Tyndale. familiar example is afforded by the well

joints; formed with knots or nodes; as, a - To join battle, to engage in battle.- known ball-and-socket joint, which consists

jointed doll; a jointed stem. To join issue. See ISSUE.-Syn. To add, con- of a solid working into a hollow sphere. A Jointedly, (joint'ed-li), adv. In a jointed nect, combine, consociate, couple, link,

manner; by joints. annex, attach, unite.

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Jointer (joint'èr), n. 1. One who or that Join (join), v.i. 1. To be contiguous, close,

which joints; specifically, (a) the largest or in contact; to form a physical union; to

plane used by joiners in straightening the grow together; to coalesce; to associate;

edges of boards, &c., to be joined together. as, the two houses join; the bones of the

Called also Jointing-plane. (b) In masonry, skull join; the two rivers join.-2. To unite

a tool for filling the mortar cracks between or become associated with, as in marriage,

the courses of bricks or stones.-2. In mas. league, confederacy, partnership, society,

onry, a bent piece of iron inserted into a or the like; to confederate; to league; as,

wali to strengthen a joint. North and South Germany joined in opposi

Joint-evil (joint'e-vil), n. Disease of the tion to Bonaparte's ambitious views.

joints; especially, a disease in which the Should we again break thy cotnmandments, and

joints are rendered conspicuous by their join in affinity with the people of these abominations?

prominence.
Ezra ix. 14.
Universal Joints (single and double).

Joint-fiat (joint'fi-at), n. In law, a fiat issued Any other may join with him that is injured, and

against two or more trading partners by a assist him in recovering satisfaction. Locke. 3. To meet in hostile encounter; to join

very ingenious contrivance, called from the joint creditor.

name of the inventor, Hooke's universal Joint-fir (joint'fer), n. See GNETACEA battle.

joint, is frequently employed for transferring Joint-heir (joint'ár), n. An heir having a But look you pray, all you that kiss my lady Peace at home, that our armies join not in a hot day.

the rotation of one axis to another when joint interest with another. Rom. viii. 17.

Shak. the two are not in the same straight line. Jointing-plane (joint'ing-plán), n. See Joinant, t ppr. Joining. Chaucer.

In fig. 1, the ends of the shafts a and b are JOINTER, 1 (a). Joinder (join'der), n. [Fr. joindre. See JOIN, each formed into a semicircular are, and Jointing-rulé(joint'ing-rol), n. In masonry. v.t.] 1. A joining; conjunction.

connected by means of a cross c. This joint a straight edge used for guiding the jointer

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in forming the joints. The object is to Joke (jok), v.t. To cast jokes at; to make held during a serious crisis Washington resecure evenness and accuracy in the face of merry with; to rally.

marked, We must consult brother Jonathe work.

Joker (jok'er), n. A jester; a merry fellow. than,' Trumbull being then governor of ConJointly (joint'li), adv. In a joint manner; Jokingly (jök'ing-li), adv. In à joking necticut. This was done, and Trumbull's together; unitedly; in concert. manner; in a merry way.

services were of the highest value. When Jointress (joint'res), n. A woman who has Jokish (jok'ish), a. Jocular.

difficulties afterwards arose Washington's a jointure; a dowager. Written also Joint

Oh, dear, how jokish these gentlemen are. O'Keefe, saying was frequently repeated, and at last ure88.

Jole, Joll (jõl), n. 1. Same as Jowl (which
Our queen,

became quite proverbial.) A sportive col.
lective name for the inhab

o he The imperial jointress of this warlike state. Shak. see). -- 2. The beak of a bird; the head of an animal, as of a fish. (Provincial.]

United States, as John Bull is for EngJoint-stock (joint'stok), 1. Stock held in Jole, + Joll 1 (jöl), v.t.' To strike the jole or

lishmen: sometimes also applied to an indicompany.-Joint-stock company, an associhead against anything; to clash with viol

vidual as a specimen of the class; as, he is ation of a number of individuals for the

a regular Jonathan. purpose of carrying on a specified business

Whose head do you carry upon your shoulders

Jongler (jong'gl-ér), n. [Fr. jongleur.] A or undertaking, of which the shares are That you jole it so against the post? Beau, & Fl. juggler; a jester. Milman. (Rare.) transferable by each owner without the con- They may joll horns together like any deer in the Jonglerie,t n. Idle talk. Chaucer. See sent of the other partners.

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JANGLE. Jointstool (joint'stol), n. A stool consisting Jolie, t a. Jolly.-Jolie Robin, the name of Jonquil, Jonquille (jon kwil), a. Fr.jonof parts inserted in each other. a dance. Chaucer.

quille; Ít. giunchiglia, dim. formed from L. Fointstools were then created; on three legs Jolif, t a. (0.Fr.) Jolly: joyful. Chaucer. juncus, a rush, from the colour and form of Upborne they stood, three legs upholding årin Jollification (jol'li-fi-kā"shon), n. A scene

the plant.) A plant of the genus Narcissus, A massy slab, in fashion square or round. of merriment, mirth, or festivity; a carouse;

the N. Jonquilla, nat. order AmaryllidCowper. Joint-tenancy (joint'ten-an-si), n. In law, a

merry-making. (Colloq. ) tenure of estate by unity of interest, title, Jollily (jol'li-li), adv. (See JOLLY.) In a time, and possession.

jolly manner; with noisy mirth; with a disJoint-tenant (joint'ten-ant), n. In law,

position to noisy mirth. one who holds an estate by joint-tenancy.

The goodly empress jollily inclined Jointure (joint'ūr), n. (Fr.) An estate in

Is to the welcome bearer wondrous kind. Dryden. lands or tenements settled on a woman in Jolliment+ (jol'li-ment), n. Mirth; merriconsideration of marriage, and which she is ment. Spenser. to enjoy after her husband's decease. Jolliness, Jollity (jol'li-nes, jol'li-ti), 11. Jointure (joint'ūr), v.t. pret. & pp. joint- The quality or condition of being jolly; ured; ppr. jointuring. To settle a jointure noisy mirth; gaiety; merriment; festivity. upon.

All now was turned to jollity and game. Milton. Jointuress (joint'ür-es), n. See JOINTRESS. He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave Joint-worm (joint'werm), n. A jointed that quarrel only for him who was only worthy to worm; an intestinal worm of the genus

enter into it.

Sir P. Sidney Tænia; tape-worm.

SYN. Merriment, mirth, gaiety, festivity, In opening a dog the other day, I found this worm.

hilarity, jovialty. ... Tis the joint worm which the learned talk of Jolly (jol'li), a. 10. Fr. joli, jolif, Fr. joli, gay, so much.-Ay; the Lumbricus latus, or vulgarly in merry, from the Scand.; comp. Icel. jól, Sw.

Jonquil (Narcissus Jonquilla), English the tape-worm.

Mrs. Centlivre.

and Dan. jul, E. yule, Christmas. See YULE.) Joist (joist), n. (O.Fr. giste, Fr. gite, a bed, 1. Merry; gay; lively; full of life and acem, one of the sweetest and most elegant a place to lie on, L.L. gista, from L. jacitum, mirth; jovial. It expresses more life and

of its family: called sometimes the Rushpp. of jacere, to lie.] In arch, one of the noise than cheerful; as, a jolly troop of

leaved Daffodil. The sweet-scented jonpieces of timber to which the boards of a huntsmen.

quil (N. odorus), a native of the south of floor or the laths of a ceiling are nailed, and

Europe, is also an ornament of our borders.

A jolly place,' said he, 'in times of old ! which rest on the walls or on girders, and But something ails it now; the spot is cursed."

Perfumed water is made from the flowers. sometimes on both. Joists are laid hori

Wordsworth. Jook, v.i. See JOUK.
2. Expressing mirth or inspiring it; exciting Jookery, Jookerie (jųk'ri), n. (See JOUK.)
mirth or gaiety.

Trickery; jugglery. (Scotch.)
And with his jolly pipe delights the groves. Prior, I was so displeased by the

jookeric of the bailie that 3. Of fine appearance; handsome; plump; in

we had no correspondence on public affairs till long after.

Galt. excellent condition of body.

Full jolly knight he seemed.' Spenser.

Jookery-pawkery, Jookerie-pawkerie The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions by

(juk'ri-pak'ri), n. [Þrobably from jouk, and frequent potations of malt liquors. Irving, 0. Sc. pauk, an art or wile. See PAWKIE.] Jolly, in popular slang, is now used in the

Trickery; pawky cunning; hypocrisy. sense of great; as, a jolly muff; and, as an

(Scotch.)

Same as Jorum. adverb, in the sense of very, very much, Joram (jo'ram), n. remarkably; as, jolly green; jolly drunk.

Jordan, Jorden (jor'dan, jorden), n. (OriOh, Miss P., look here! I've got such a jolly big

ginally a vessel in which a pilgrim brought toadstool.

Thackeray.

home water from the Jordan. ) 1.7 A kind Jolly-boat (jol'li-bot), n.

of pot or vessel formerly used by alchemists, [Same word as

in shape not unlike a soda-water bottle, only yawl; D. jol, Dan. jolle, a yawl, a jolly.

that the neck was wider. Chaucer.-2. A boat.) A small clincher-built boat belonging

chamber-pot. to a ship, smaller than a cutter. It is about

Jorum (jo'rum), n. (Perhaps a corruption 4 feet beam to 12 feet in length, with a bluff Joists. bow and wide transom.

of jordan.) A colloquial term for a bowl or Jollyhead + (jolli-hed), n. A state of jollity. Joseph (jöʻzef), n. [Probably in allusion to

drinking vessel with liquor in it. 1. A A. Joists. B. Floor boards. 2. C, Trimming joist.

Spenser. 3. D D. Binding joists. E E, Bridging joists. B, Floor

Joseph's coat of many colours.) A riding boards. Jolt (jõlt), v.i. (Perhaps connected with

coat or habit for women, with buttons down jole, joll, to strike against.) To shake with

to the skirts, formerly much in use. zontally in parallel equidistant rows. – short abrupt risings and fallings, as a car

Olivia would be drawn as an Amazon, sitting upon Trimming joists, two joists, into which each riage moving on rough ground.

a bank of flowers, dressed in a green joseph. end of a small beam, called a trimmer, is He whipped the horses, the coach jolted again.

Goldsmith. framed. See TRIMMER.Binding joists, the

Rambler.

Joso (jo'ső), n. A small fish of the gudgeon joists which form the principal support of the Jolt (jölt), v.t. To shake with sudden jerks,

kind. floor, and run from wall to wall. --Bridging as in a carriage on rough ground, or on a

Jossa, + interj. (Probably from ho! and Fr. joists, those which are bridged on to the high-trotting horse.

ça, híther.] Come hither! Chaucer. binding joists, and carry the floor.-Ceiling Is it not very unhappy that Lysander must be at; Joss-stick (jos'stik), n. (Chinese joss, a joists, cross pieces fixed to the binding tacked and applauded in a wood, and Corinna jolted

Taller.

and commended in a stage-coach? joists underneath to sustain the lath and

deity, and E. stick.) In China, a small reed

covered with the dust of odoriferous woods, plaster. Jolt (jölt), n. A shock or shake by a sudden

and burned before an idol. Joist (joist), v.t. To fit or furnish with jerk, as in a carriage.

Jostle (jos'?), v.t. pret. & pp. jostled; ppr. joists.

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out, but

jostling. (A dim. from joust, See JOUST.) Joke (jok), n. [L. jocus, Fr. jeu, It.

afterwards the motion was easy.

Swift.

To push against; to crowd against so as to giuoco, gioco, a jest. ) 1. Something said | Jolter (jöltér), n. One who or that which

render unsteady; to elbow; to hustle. You for the sake of exciting a laugh; some- jolts.

who are jostled in the crowd of this world.' thing witty or sportive; a jest; raillery. Jolterhead, Jolthead (jölt'er-hed, jölt'hed), Thackeray. A college joke to cure the dumps. Swift.

n. A head disproportionately large; hence, Jostle (jos’l), v.i. To hustle; to shove 2. Something not real, or to no purpose; a dunce; a blockhead.

about as in a crowd. what is not in earnest or actually meant;

He must then have had a jolthead, and so

Theirs was no common party race, there would not have been body and blood enough an illusion.

to supply his brain with spirits.

Grow.

Fostling by dark intrigue for place. Sir W. Scott. Inclose whole downs in walls, 'tis all a jokel Pope. Fie on thee, jolthead! thou canst not read. Shak. Jot (jot), n. [From iota, the smallest letter -A practical joke. See under PRACTICAL. Joltingly (jõlt'ing-li), adv. In a jolting man

in the Greek alphabet. See IOTA.) An iota; -In joke, in jest; for the sake of raising a ner; so as to jolt or shake.

a point; a tittle; the least quantity assign

able. laugh; not in earnest; with no serious in- Jombre,t v.t. To jumble. Chaucer.

'No jot he moved.' Keats. tention.

Jonathan (jon'a-than), n. (From Jonathan Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle Joke (jök), v. i. pret. & pp. joked; ppr. Trumbull, an important actor in the revolu

shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Mat. v. 18. joking. To jest ; to be merry in words or tionary struggle in America. At an early

Neither will they bate actions. period of the war when a consultation was

One jot of ceremony.

Shak.

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Jot (jot), v.t. pret. & pp. jotted; ppr. jotting. Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. the cheek, the jaw.) The cheek. ---Cheek by To set down; to make a memorandum of.

Gen. xii. 9.

jowl, with the cheeks close together. Jotter (jot'ér), n.

1. One who makes notes Journey-batedt (jér'ni-bāt-ed), a. Fatigued Jowlt (jol), v.t. To jole; to dash; to throw. or memoranda.--2. The book in which notes or worn out with a journey. Shak.

How the knave jowis it to the ground. Shak. or memoranda are made.

Journeyer (jér'ni-ér), n. One who journeys.
Jotting (jot'ing), n. A mem-
Journeyman (jer'ni-man), n. Strictly, a

In her, same as

Jowlopped (jou'lopt), a. orandum man hired to work by the day; but in fact,

Jelloped. Jougs (jugz), n. [L. jugum,

any mechanic or workman who has served Jowler (jöl'ér), n. [From having thick a yoke.] An instrument of his apprenticeship, and is so supposed to

jowols.) A hunting dog, beagle or other dog. punishment formerly used have learned his special occupation.

Jowter (jou'tér), n. [A corruption of jolter. ]

One who carries fish about the country on in Scotland, consisting of

Journey-weight (jer'ni-wăt), n. A term an iron collar which surapplied at the mint to the weight of certain

horseback for sale; a fish-hawker; a cadger. rounded the neck of the parcels of coin, which were probably con

Joy (joi), n. (O.Fr. joye, joie, goie, Fr. joie, criminal, and was fastened sidered formerly as a day's work. The

It. gioja, from L. gaudium, joy, gaudere, to to a wall or tree by an iron journey weight of gold is 15 troy lbs., which

rejoice.] 1. The passion or emotion excited chain. is coined into 701 sovereigns, or 1402 half

by the acquisition or expectation of good; Jouissance (zhö-is'ans), n. sovereigns. A journey-weight of silver

that excitement of pleasurable feelings [Fr. jouissance.) Enjoy. weighs 60 lbs. troy, and is coined into 792

which is caused by success, good fortune, ment; joy; mirth. Spenser. crowns, or 1584 half crowns, or 3960 shillings,

the gratification of desire or some good posJouk, Jook (jök), v.i. [A or 7920 sixpences.

sessed, or by a rational prospect of possessform of duck, to bend the Journey-work (jer'ni-werk), n. Work done

ing what we love or desire; gladness; exulhead rapidly; or allied to for hire by a mechanic in his proper occu

tation; exhilaration of spirits. G. zucken, to shrink, in order pation.

Foy is a delight of the mind, from the considerato avoid a blow.] To bend Joust (jöst), n. [0. Fr. juste, jouste, joste,

tion of the present or assured approaching possession of a good.

Locke. down or incline the body Jougs. jousting. See the verb.) A mock encounter forwards with a quick moon horseback; a combat for sport or for

2. The cause of joy or happiness. tion in order to avoid a stroke or any in

exercise, in which the combatants pushed For ye are our glory and joy. 1 Thes. ii. 20. jury; to double or turn, as a hare; to dodge. with lances and struck with swords, man to

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. L'eats. (Scotch.)

man, in mock fight; a tilt; one of the exer- -Hilarity, Joy. See under HILARITY. -I jouk beneath Misfortune's blows

cises at tournaments. Written also Just. SYN. Gladness, pleasure, delight, happiness, As weel's I may.

Burns.
It was a court of jousts and mimes,

exultation, transport, felicity, ecstasy, rapJounce+ (jouns), v. t. [See JAUNT.)

Where every courtier tried at rhymes. Byron.
To

ture, bliss, gaiety, mirth, merriment, festivjolt; to shake, especially by rough riding.

Joust (jöst), v. i. [0. Fr. juster, jouster, joster, ity, hilarity. Jouncet (jouns), n. A jolt; a shake.

to tilt; It. giustare, from L. juxta, near to, Joy (joi), v.i. To rejoice; to be glad; to exult. Journal (jernal), n. [Fr., from L. diur. nigh.] 1. To engage in mock fight on horse- Foying to feel herself alive." Tennyson. nalis, diurnal, from dies, a day.) 1. A diary; back; to tilt.

I will joy in the God of my salvation. Hab. iii. 1&. an account of daily transactions and events,

All who since, baptized or infidel, or the book containing such account; any

Fousted in Aspramont and Montalban. Milton. Joy (joi), v.t. 1. To give joy to; to gladden;

to exhilarate. record of a series of transactions; as, (a)

2. To push; to drive; to jostle. Written also in book-keeping, a book in which every parJust.

Neither pleasure's art can

joy my spirits. Shat.

My soul was joyed in vain. Pogle. ticular article or charge is fairly entered Jouster (jöst'er), n. One who jousts or takes under each day's date, or in groups at longer part in a joust.

2. + To enjoy; to have or possess with pleaperiods. (6) Naut. a daily register of the ship's Jousting-helmet (jöst'ing-hel-met), n. A sure, or to have pleasure in the possession

of. course and distance, the winds, weather, and wide, large helmet, made to cover the head

See ENJOY. other occurrences. (c) A newspaper or other and neck, and rest upon the shoulders of And let her joy her raven-colour'd love. Shak periodical published daily; any publication the knight, used in jousts and tournaments. Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.

Milton. issued at successive periods as materials

It was decorated with the orle displaying Joyance (joi'ans), n. [O.Fr. joiant, joyful. accumulate, as a publication containing an

his colours and his crest above that. account of inventions, discoveries, and im- Jove (jov), n. [L. Jovis, genit. of Jupiter, Gr. Gaiety; festivity; enjoyment; happiness; provements in arts and sciences, the trans- Zeus.] 1. The chief divinity of the Romans;

delight. actions of a learned society, or the like. Jupiter.--2. The planet Jupiter.

Is it a matter of joyance to those wise and sober (d) In mining, a record of the strata passed Or ask of yonder argent fields above

personages that the government which reared and

nurtured them to all their wisdom and sobriety ... through in sinking.–2. In mach. that part Why Fove's satellites are less than Fove. Pope.

should be now extinct?

Lander. of shafting which rests in the bearings. -- 3. The air or atmosphere, or the god of the For like a god thou art, and on thy way 3.1 A day's work; a journey. air.

Of glory sheddest, with benignant ray, In all thy age of journals thou hast took, And Jove descends in showers of kindly rain.

Beauty, and life, and joyance from above. Sawest thou that pair became these rites so well!

Dryden.

Sonthey. B. Jonson. 4. In alchemy, the metal tin.

Joy-bells (joi'belz), n. pl. Bells rung on a

festive occasion. Journalt (jér'nal), a. (See the noun.) Daily; Jovial (jõʻvi-al), a. (L.L. Jovialis, from quotidian; diurnal.

Jupiter, Jovis, "Jupiter. This planet was Joyful (joi'fyl), a. Full of joy; very glad; Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting.

believed to make those born under it of a exulting

Shak. jovial temperament.] 1. Under the influence My soul shall be joyful in my God. Is. Ixi. 10 Journalary (jér'na-la-ri), a. Daily; diurnal. of Jupiter, the planet.

It has sometimes of before the cause of joy. The journalary history of his adventures. The fixed stars are astrologically differenced by the Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.

Pope, Warburton. planets, and esteemed Martial or Foviai according

SYN. Merry, lively, blithe, gleeful, gay, Journal-book (jer'nal-byk), n. A book for to the colours whereby they answer these planets.

Sir T. Browne. festive, joyous, happy, blissful, exulting. making daily records. Journal-box (jér'nal-boks), n. In mech.

2. In alchemy, of or pertaining to tin.- Joyfully (joi'fyl-li), adv. In a joyful manthe box on which the journal of a shaft,

3. Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; as, a jovial ner; with joy; gladly. axle, or pin bears and moves. It is made youth; a jovial throng.

Never did men more joyfully obey. Dryden. in two or more parts for convenience in Be bright and jovial among your guests. Shak. Joyfulness (joi'fyl-nes), n. The state of opening and adjusting it.

His odes are some of them panegyrical, others being joyful; great gladness; joy. Journalism (jernal-izm), n. 1. The keeping of moral, the rest jovial or bacchanalian. Dryden.

Joyless (joiles), a. 1. Destitute of joy; a journal. ---2. The trade or occupation of pub- SYN. Merry, joyous, gay, festive, mirthful, wanting joy. lishing, writing in, or conducting a journal; gleeful.

With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. the influence exerted by public journals. Jovialist (jo'vi-al-ist), n. One who lives a Journalist (jer'nal-ist), n.

It is sometimes followed by of. Joyless of 1. The writer of jovial life. a journal or diary.-2. The conductor of or Joviality (jö- vi-al'i-ti), n. The state or

the grove.' Dryden. -2. Giving no joy or writer in a public journal; a newspaper quality of being jovial; merriment; festivity.

pleasure. editor, correspondent, critic, or reporter. The first day vapours away in tobacco, feasts, and

A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue. Skak. Journalistic (jèr-nal-ist'ik), a. Pertaining other joviality.

Sir T. Herbert. Joylessly (joi'les-li), adv. In a joyless manto journals or newspapers, or to journalism; Jovially (jö'vi-al-li), adv. In a jovial man- ner; without joy. as, journalistic literature.

ner; merrily; gaily; with noisy mirth. Joylessness (joi'les-nes), 1. State of being Journalize (jér'nal-iz), v. t. pret. & pp. jour- Jovialness (jo vi-al-nes), n. Joviality; joyless. nalized; ppr. journalizing. To enter in a noisy mirth; gaiety,

Joyous (joi'us), a. [O. Fr. joyous, joious; journal an account of, as daily transactions; Jovialty (jo'vi-al-ti), n. Joviality.

Fr. joyeux; from L. gaudiosus, from gauto give the form of a journal to.

Jovicentric (jo-vi-sen'trik), a. In astron. dium, joy.) 1. Glad; gay; merry; joyful. He kept his journal very diligently, but then what having relation to Jupiter as a centre.

Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs was there to journalize! Johnson. Jovinianist (jö-vin'i-an-ist), n. Eccles. Whispered it to the woods.

MiMon. Journalize (jėr'nal-iz), v.i. To contribute to a follower of Jovinian, a monk of the fifth

It sometimes has of before the cause of joy. writing or aid in conducting a journal; as, century, who denied the virginity of Mary.

And joyous of our conquest early won. Dryder, he is engaged in journalizing.

Jovis, t n. [See JOVE.) Jupiter Chaucer. Journee, t n. A day's journey; a day's work. Jovyf (jõ'vi), a. Jovial; gay. 'I thought I

2. Giving joy.
Chaucer.
might be jovy.' Beau. & Fi.

Each object of the joyous scene around
Vernal delight inspires.

9. Warton. Journey (jėr'ni), n. (Fr. journée, a day, a Jow (jou), v.i. [Imitative.) To move from day's work, a day's journey, from L. diurnus, side to side; to toll as a bell. [Scotch.) Syn. Merry, lively, blithe, gleeful, gay, glad, daily, from dies, a day.) 1.7 The work or Jow (jou), v. t. To move; to toll; to ring. mirthful, sportive, festive, joyful, happy, travel of a day.--2. Travel from one place [Scotch.)

blissful, charming, delightful. to another; passage; as, a journey from Jowar (jo'är), n. In the East Indies, the Joyously (joi'us-li), adv. In a joyous manLondon to Paris, or to Rome; a week's name given to the Indian millet (Sorghum ner; with joy ur gladness. journey. 'A long journey from the upper vulgare).

Joyousness (joi'us-nes), n. The state of regions.' Burnet. Joweles, t n. pl. Jewels. Chaucer.

being joyous. Journey (jer'ni), v.i. To travel from place Jowl (jöl), n. (A word appearing also in the Jubt (jub), n. A bottle or vessel of some to place; to pass from home to a distance. forms jole, jol, chowl; from A. Sax. ceole, kind; a jug.

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Juba (jūba), n. [L., a mane.] In zool. the under the semblance of friendship. -2. A find their agreement or disagreement and long thick-set hairs which adorn the neck, small trap in a door; a judas-hole.

to ascertain truth; (b) the process of examchest, or spine of certain quadrupeds.

There was a judas, or small trap, open in the door ining facts and arguments to ascertain proJubæa (jū-be'a), n. A genus of palms con- itself.

Sala. priety and justice; (c) the process of examtaining only one species, the coquito (which Judas-coloured (jū'das-kul-ėrd), a. Red: ining the relations between one proposition see).

applied to hair, from the notion that Judas and another; (d) the administration of jusJube (jū’bē), n. A term applied, especially had red hair.

tice and the passing of sentence. A Daniel in France, to the rood-loft or gallery in a

There's treachery in that Judas-coloured beard.

come to judgment.' Shak. -- 2. The act or cathedral or church at or over the entrance

Dryden. faculty of judging truly, wisely, or skilfully; to the choir, from the custom of pronounc- Judas-hole (jū'das-hol), n. A small trap or good sense; discernment; understanding. ing the words jube Domine benedicere from hole in a door made for peeping into You have good judgment in horsemanship. Shak, it in the service before certain lessons, which chamber without the knowledge of those 3. The faculty of the mind by which man is were sometimes chanted there. The name within it; a judas.

enabled to compare ideas and ascertain the was also applied to the ambo.

He knew the world as he had seen it through relations of terms and propositions; in logic, Jubilant (jū'bi-lant), a. (L. jubilans. See judas-noles, chiefly in its foulness and impurity. the second of the three logical operations JUBILEE.) Uttering songs of triumph; re

C. Reade. joicing; shouting or singing with joy. Judasly, (jū’das - li), adv. Treacherously.

of the mind. It consists in comparing togeTyndall.

ther two of the simple notions which are the While the bright pomp ascended jubilant, Milton. Judas-tree (jū'das-trē), 11. A plant of the

subjects of simple apprehension, and proThe night-birds all that hour were still, genus Cercis (the C. Siliquastrum), remark

nouncing that they agree or disagree with But now they are jubilant anew. Coleridge. able for the beauty of its rose-coloured

each other. Hence judgment is either afJubilart (jū’bil-ėr), a. Relating to or hav- flowers.

firmative or negative, and the subjects of It derives its name from a tradi

tion that Judas hanged himself on it. ing the character of a jubilee.

It

judgment are propositions which are ex

pressions of the agreement or disagreement The tenth compleat yeare of our Constantine belongs to the nat. order Leguminosa and

of one term with another.-4. A determina(James I.) deserves to be solemne and jubilar. sub-order Caesalpineæ.

Bp. Hall.
Judcock (jud'kok), n. A small snipe, Galli-

tion of the mind, formed from comparing Jubilate (jū-bi-la'tē), n. [L., second pers.

the relations of ideas, or the comparison of nago gallinula. Called also Jack-enipe. pl. imper. of jubilo, to rejoice, to sing.) The Judean (jū-de'an), n. A native or inhabit

facts and arguments; as, in the formation of third Sunday after Easter: so called because ant of Judea.

our judgments we should be careful to weigh in the primitive church divine service was Judean (jú-dē'an), a. Relating to Judea.

and compare all the facts connected with commenced with the words of the sixty-sixth Judge (juj), n. [Fr. juge; It. giudice; L. ju

the subject. Specifically, in logic, an affirmaPsalm: 'Jubilate Deo, omnes terræ'--'Sing dex, judicis, a judge, from jus, juris, law

tion of some kind or other, as snow is white, to the Lord, all ye lands. or right, and dico, to pronounce.] 1. A civil

man is mortal; the contrast to judgment is

a mere notion, as white, mortality.-5. In Jubilation (jū-bi-lā'shon), n. [Fr., from L. officer invested with power to hear and de

law, the sentence or doom pronounced in jubilatio. See JUBILEE.) The act of declar- termine causes, civil and criminal, and to ing triumph; a rejoicing; a triumph; exul- administer justice between parties in courts

any cause, civil or criminal, by the judge

or court by which it is tried. --6. Opinion; tation. held for the purpose.

notion; manner of thinking about someJubilee (jū'bi-le), n. [Fr. jubile; L. jubilæus, Judges ought to remember that their office is jus

thing. jubilee, from Heb. yôbel, the blast of a dicere, not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to

make law or give law.

Bacon. She, in my judgment, was as fair as you. Shak. trumpet, and hence the sabbatical year announced by the sound of the trumpet.)

2. One who has skill to decide on the merits 7. A calamity regarded as inflicted by God 1. Among the Jews, every fiftieth year, be- of a question or on the value of anything; for the punishment of sinners. ing the year following the revolution of one who can discern truth and propriety; a We cannot be guilty of greater uncharitableness, seven weeks of years, at which time all the critic; a connoisseur.

than to interpret afflictions as punishments and judge slaves were liberated, and all lands which A man who is no judge of law, may be a good

ments: it aggravates the evil to him who suffers,

when he looks upon himself as the mark of divine had been alienated during the whole period judge of poetry or eloquence, or of the merits of a

vengeance.

Addison. reverted to their former owners.

This was
painting

Dryden.
a time of great rejoicing. Hence-2. A sea- 3. In Jewish hist. a chief magistrate with

8. In Scrip. divine dispensations or governcivil and military powers. son of great public joy and festivity; any

The Israelites

ment; statutes or commandments of God.

How unscarchable are his judgments. Rom. xi. 33. occasion of rejoicing or joy.

were governed by judges more than 300

years, and the history of their transactions 9. The final trial of the human race, when Joy was then a masculine and a severe thing: the

is called the Book of Judges. recreation of the judgment, or rejoicing, the jubilee

Hence God will decide the fate of every individual, of reason.

South.

4. pl. The name of the seventh book of the and award sentence according to justice.

Old Testament. 3. A church solemnity or ceremony cele

He hath reserved ... unto the judgment of the great day.

Jude 6. brated at Rome at stated intervals, origi- Judge (juj), v.i. pret. & pp. judged; ppr.

judging. (Fr. juger, L. judico, to judge. See One that before the judgment carries poor souls nally of a hundred years, but now of twenty

to hell.

Shak. five, in which the pope grants plenary in

the noun.] 1. To hear and determine, as in

causes on trial; to pass sentence; as, he was - Judgment of God, a term formerly applied dulgence to sinners, or to as many as visit

present on the bench but could not judge to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul at in the case.

by arms and single combat, by ordeal, or Rome. The indulgence is now also obtainThe Lord judge between me and thee. Gen. xvi. 5.

hot ploughshares, &c.; it being imagined able by attending the stations in villages to

that God would work miracles to vindicate which later pontiffs have conceded the in- 2. To assume the right to pass judgment

innocence. -- SYN. Decision, verdict, sendulgence in lieu of going to the Eternal City upon any matter; to sit in judgment.

tence, award, estimate, notion, opinion, itself.

It is not ours to judge-far less condemn. Byron. belief, conclusion, discrimination, penetraJucundity (jū-kund'i-ti), n. [L. jucunditas,

3. To compare facts, ideas, or propositions, tion, discernment, understanding, sagacity, from jucundus, sweet, pleasant.] Pleasant

and perceive their agreement or disagree- intelligence. ness; agreeableness.

ment, and thus to distinguish truth from Judgment-day (juj'ment-dā), n. In theol. Judaic, Judaical (jū-dā'ik, jū-da'ik-al), a.

falsehood; to form an opinion; to determine; the last day, or day when final judgment (L. Judaicus, from Judoea.] Pertaining to to distinguish.

will be pronounced on the subjects of God's the Jews.

Fudge not according to the appearance. Jn. vii. 24. moral government. Judaically (jū-dā'ik-al-li), adv. After the

In lau, Jewish manner. 'Celebrating their Easter Judge (juj), v.t. 1. To hear and determine Judgment-debt (juj'ment-det), n. authoritatively, as a case or controversy

a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's judaically.' Milton.

order, and in respect of which he can at any Judaism (jū'da-izm), n. [Fr. judaïsme, from between parties; to examine into and de

time attach the debtor's goods and chattels. Judah.)

cide. 1. The religious doctrines and

Everlasting Fate shall yield

Such debts have the preference of being paid rites of the Jews, as enjoined in the laws of

To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. in full, as compared with simple contract Moses. -2. Conformity to the Jewish rites

Milton.

debts and ceremonies.

2. To examine and pass sentence on; to try. Judgment-hall (įujment-hæl), n. The hall Judaist (jū’da-ist), n. An adherent to Ju

God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. where courts are held. daism.

Eccl, iii. 17.

Judgment-like (juj'ment-lik), a. A term Judaistic (jū-dā-ist'ik), a. Relating or per- 3. To arrogate judicial authority over; to

applied to anything supposed to betoken taining to Judaism. assume the right to pass judgment upon;

divine judgment or displeasure. (Scotch.) Judaization (jū’dā-iz-ā"shon), n. The act to pass severe sentence upon; to be censo

It would have been a judgment-like thing, had a of judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish rious towards.

bairn of Doctor Pringle's been sacrificed to Moloch, religion or ritual.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mat. vii. 1. like the victims of prelatic idolatry.

Gall. Judaize (jū'dā-iz), v.i. pret. & pp. judaized;

4. To esteem; to think; to reckon.

Judgment-seat (juj'ment-sēt), n. The seat ppr. judaizing. (Fr. judaiser, from Judah.j

If ye have judged ine to be faithful to the Lord. or bench on which judges sit in court; a 1. To conform to the religious doctrines and

Acts xvi. 15.

court; a tribunal. rites of the Jews; to affect the manners or Judge-advocate (juj-advo-kät), n. See MDcustoms of the Jews.

We shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ. VOCATE.

Rom. xiv. 10. They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to judaize Judgement (jujment), n. Same as Judge Judica (jū'di - ka), n. [2d sing. imperat. so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various inment.

mood of L. judico, to judge.] The fifth stances.

Milner.

Judger (juj'ér), n. One who judges or Sunday of Lent: so named because in the 2. To reason or interpret like a Jew. passes sentence.

primitive church the services of the day Judaize (jū'dā-iz), v.t. To bring into con- Judgeship (juj'ship), n. The office of a were begun with the opening words of the formity with the manners, customs, or rites judge.

forty-third Psalm: 'Judica me, Domine'of the Jews; as, to judaize the Christian Judgingly (juj'ing-li), adv.

In the manner "Judge me, O Lord.' Sabbath. of a judge; judiciously.

Judicable (jū'di-ka-bl), a. Capable of being Judaizer (jū'dā-iz-ér), n. 1..One who con- He declares that this work neither his own minis. tried or decided. forms to the religion, customs, manners, ters nor any else can discerningly enough or judg.

Pride is soon discernable, but not easily judicable. &c., of the Jews. -- 2. One who reasons or ingly perform

Milton

Fer Taylor interprets like a Jew.

Judgment (juj'ınent), n. [Fr. jugement. ] Judicative (jū'dik-at-iv), a. Having power Judas (jū'das), n. (After the false apostle.) 1. The act of judging: (a) the act or process to judge The former is but an act of the

1. A treacherous person; one who betrays of the mind, in comparing its ideas, to judicative faculty.' Hammond.

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