JOBBING-JOGGLED. The common name of JOGGLED-JOINTS-JOINER. The practice of taking and JOGGLED-JOINTS, jog'gld-joynts, s. In Architecture, the joints of stones or other inasses, so indented that the adjacent stones, fitting into the indentations, are prevented from being pushed away from each other by any force perpendicular to the pressures by which they are thus held together. The act or practice of JOBBING, job bing, s. being employed in jobs. JOB'S TEARS, jobs teerz, s. the grass Coix lachryma. JOCANTRY, jo'kan-tre, s. jesting. JOCKEY, jok'e, s. (said to be from Jack, the diminutive of John; primarily, a boy that rides horses.) A man that rides horses in a race; a dealer in horses; one who makes it his business to buy and sell horses for gain; a cheat; one who deceives or takes undue advantage in trade;-v. a. to cheat; to trick; to jostle by riding against one. JOCKEYISM, jok'e-izm, s. Practice of jockeys. JOCKEYSHIP, jok ́e-ship, 8. The art or practice of riding horses. JOCOSE, jo-kose', a. (jocosus, Lat.) Given to jokes and jesting; merry; waggish; containing a joke; sportive. JOCOSELY, jo-kose ́le, ad. In jest; for sport or game; waggishly. JOCOSENESS, jo-kose'nes, s. The quality of being jocose; waggery; merriment. JOCOSERIOUS, jo-ko-se're-us, a. Partaking of mirth and seriousness. Laugh aloud with them that laugh, With souls who've took their freedom up.-Green. JOCULAR, jok'u-lar, a. (jocularis, Lat.) Used in jest; merry; jocose; waggish; sportive; not serious. JOCULARITY, jok-u-lar'e-te, s. Merriment; jesting. JOCULARLY, jok ́u-lar-le, ad. In jest; for sport or mirth. Jocular.-Obsolete. JOCULARY, jok'u-lar-e, a. JOCULATOR, jok'u-lay-tur, s. (Latin.) A jester; a droll; a minstrel. In the thirteenth century, a horse was exhibited by the joculators, which danced upou a rope.—Strutt. JOCULATORY, jok'u-lay-tur-e, a. Droll; merrily spoken. JOCUND, jok'und, a. (jocundus, Lat.) Merry ; gay; airy; lively; sportive. JOCUNDITY, jo-kun'de-te, State of being JOCUNDNESS, jokand-nes,} "merry, gaiety. JOCUNDLY, jok'und-le, ad. Merrily; gayly. JODES, jo'des, s. (iodes, violaceous, Gr. in reference to the colour of the fruit.) A genus of plants, natives of Java: Order, Berberaçes. JOEL, jo'el, 8. The name of one of the Hebrew minor prophets of the Old Testament, and of the book which he wrote. JOG, jog, v. a. To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to give notice or excite attention by a slight push ;-v. n. to move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to walk or travel idly, heavily, or slowly;-s. a push; a slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a rub; a small stop; obstruction. JOGGER, jog'gur, s. One who walks or moves heavily and slowly; one who gives a sudden push. JOGGING, jogging, s. A slight push or shake; the act of shaking. JOGGLE, jog gl, v. a. To shake slightly; to give a sudden but slight push ;-v. n. to shake. Jogglepiece, in Architecture, a truss-post, the shoulders and sockets of which receive the lower ends of the struts. JOGGLED, jog gld, a. vent slipping. VOL. II. 121 Fixed by serratures to pre ย JOGHIS, jog'is, s. A sect of persons in the East Indies who never marry, nor hold any private property, but live on alms, and practise strange severities or mortifications. JOGUES, jogs,) 8. In Hindoo chronology, certain YUGS, yugs, ages, eras, or periods of extraordinary length. JOHANNES, jo-han'niz, 8. A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars. The word is often contracted into joe. It is so termed from its being struck in the reign and bearing the figure of King John of Portugal. JOHANNITE, jo-an'ite, s. (in honour of Archduke John of Austria.) A mineral of a grass-green colour, occurring in minute crystals. It is an anhydrous sulphate of uranium, mixed with sulphate of copper. Sp. gr. 3.19. H= 2.0-2.5. Jonn, jon, s. The name of the youngest and favourite Apostle of Jesus Christ, and of the gospel and three epistles in the New Testament written by him. John Bull, a collective by-name for the English nation, first used in Arbuthnot's satire; 'the history of John Bull' usually published in Swift's works. John Dory, the common name of the fish Zeus faber. JOHNIA, jon'e-na, s. (in honour of the Reverend Dr. John.) A genus of plants, consisting of small trees, natives of Chittagong and Coromandel: Order, Hippocratecer. JOHRENIA, jo-re'ne-a, s. (in honour of Mart. Dan. Johreni.) A genus of Glabrous umbelliferous herbs, natives of the Levant: Suborder, Orthospermæ. JOHNIUS, jon'e-us, s. A genus of fishes: Family, Percida. JOIN, joyn, v. a. (joindre, Fr.) To bring or set one thing in contiguity with another; to couple; to combine; to unite in league or marriage; to associate; to unite in any act; to unite in concord; -v. n. to grow to; to adhere; to be contiguous, close, or in contact; to unite with in marriage, league, confederacy, partnership, or society. JOINDER, joyn'dur, s. Joinder in action, is the coupling or joining of two in a suit or action against another. As where two joint owners of a sum of money are robbed upon the highway, they are to join in one action against the hundred. Joinder in demurrer, when there is a demurrer averring the pleading insufficient in law to answer the end proposed by it, the opposite party avers it to be sufficient, which is called a joinder in demurrer, and then the parties are at issue in point of law. Joinder of issue, when a party denies or traverses the fact pleaded by his antagonist, who has tendered the issue thus, "and this he prays may be inquired of by the country," or "and of this he puts himself upon the country," the party denying the fact may immediately subjoin, "and the said A. B. doth the like." Which done, the issue is said to be joined, both parties having agreed to rest the fate of the cause upon the truth of the fact in question. JOINER, joyn'ur, s. One whose occupation is to 9 JEWEL-HOUSE-JIG. studding-sails beyond the sheets of the topsails; -v. a. to dress or adorn with jewels. JEWEL-HOUSE, ju'il-hows, s. The place where JEWEL-OFFICE, ju'il-of 'fis,) the plate of the reigning sovereign is fashioned and weighed, and delivered out by warrant of the Lord Chamberlain; also, the place where the regal ornaments and jewels are deposited. JEWELLER, ju'il-lur, s. One who makes or deals in jewels and other ornaments. JEWEL-LIKE, ju'il-like, a. Brilliant as a jewel. JEWRY, ju're, s. Judea, also a district inhabited by Jews-whence the name of a street in London. There was in Asie, in a great citee, Amonges Christen folke a jewerie.-Chaucer. JEW'S-HARP, juze'harp, 8. A small instrument JEW'S-TRUMP, juze'trump, of music, shaped like a harp, which, placed between the teeth, and by means of a spring struck by the finger, gives a sound which is modulated by the breath into soft melody. JEZEBEL, jez'e-bel, s. An impudent, daring, vi cious woman. JEZEIDES, jez'idze, s. A numerous sect inhabiting Turkey and Persia, so called from their head, Jezid, an Arabian prince, who slew the sons of Ali, the father-in-law of Mahomed, for which he was reckoned a parricide, and his followers heretics. They are extremely ignorant: they believe both the koran and the bible without reading either. They address songs of adoration to Christ, the Virgin, Moses, and sometimes Mahomed. JIB, jib, s. The foremost sail of a ship, being a large staysail extended from the outer end of the jib-boom towards the foretopmast head; clear away the jib, the order to loose it preparatory to its being set. Jib-door, in Architecture, a door so constructed as to stand flush with the adjoining face of the wall on both sides, and without dressings or architraves. Flying Jib, a sail sometimes set upon a boom rigged out beyond the jib-boom. Middle Jib, a similar sail sometimes set before the two preceding, being extended from the end of the jib-boom, while the inner jibtack is near half way down, or on the boom. Jib-boom, a spar which is run out from the extremity of the bowsprit, and which serves as a continuation of it. Flying Jibboom, a boom extended beyond the jib-boom by means of two boom irons, and to the foremost end of which the tack of the flying jib is hauled out. JIBOYA, je-bo'ya, s. An American serpent of the largest kind. JICKA-JOG, jik'a-jog, s. A shake; a push. And then shall each Paddy, who once on the Liffy JIG, jig, s. (giga, Ital. gique, Fr.) A kind of light JIGGER-JOBBERNOWL. dance, or a tune or air; a ludicrous composition; a ballad;-(obsolete in the last two senses;) A jig shall be clapp'd at, and every rhyme Prais'd and applauded by a clamorous chime.Beau. & Flet. -v. n. to dance a jig. JIGGER, jiggur, s. In a ship, a machine consisting of a rope about five feet long, with a block at one end, and a sheave at the other, used to hold on the cable when it is heaved into the ship by the revolution of the windlass. Fleet Jigger, a term used by the man who holds on the jigger, when, by its distance from the windlass, it becomes necessary to fleet or replace it in a proper state of action. Jigger tackle, a light small tackle, consisting of a double and single block, and used by seamen on various occasions. Suitable to a jig. JIGGISH, jigʻgish, a. JIGGUMBOB, jig'gum-bob, s. knack. A trinket; a knick One who makes or JIGMAKER, jig'may-kur, s. plays jigs; a balladmaker. JIGPIN, jig pin, s. A pin used by miners to hold the turn beams, and prevent them from turning. JILL, jil, s. A contemptuous name for a young JIMMERS, jim'murz, s. JIMP, jimp, a. Neat; JINGLE, jing'gl, v. n. Jointed hinges. handsome; elegant of shape. To sound with a fine sharp rattle; to clink;-v. a. to cause to give a sharp sound, as little bells or pieces of metal;-s. a little bell or rattle; correspondence of sound in rhymes; a rattling or clinking sound, as of little bells. JIPPO, jip'po, s. (jupe, Fr.) A waistcoat or kind of stays for females. JOB, job, s. A piece of work; anything to be done, whether of more or less importance; a lucrative business; an undertaking with a view to profit; a low, mean, lucrative, busy affair; a sudden stab with a pointed instrument; the name of a book of the Old Testament;-v. a. to strike or stab with a sharp instrument; to drive in a sharp pointed instrument;-v. n. to deal in the public stocks; to buy and sell as a broker. JOBBER, job'bur, s. One who does small jobs; a dealer in the public stocks or funds, usually called a stock-jobber; a merchant that purchases goods from importers, and sells to retailers; one who engages in a low lucrative affair. JOBBERNOWL, job'bur-nowl, s. (said to be from jobbe, dull, Flem. and knol, head or top, Sax.) A loggerhead; a blockhead.-A low word. His guts are in his brains, huge jobbernowl Right gurnet's head; the rest without all soule. Marston. JOBBING-JOGGLED. JOGGLED-JOINTS JOINER. JOBBING, job bing, s. The practice of taking and JOGGLED-JOINTS, jog'gld-joynts, s. In Architec The common name of The act or practice of being employed in jobs. JOB'S TEARS, jobs teerz, s. the grass Coix lachryma. JOCANTRY, jo'kan-tre, s. jesting. JOCKEY, jok'e, s. (said to be from Jack, the diminutive of John; primarily, a boy that rides horses.) | A man that rides horses in a race; a dealer in horses; one who makes it his business to buy and sell horses for gain; a cheat; one who deceives or takes undue advantage in trade;-v. a. to cheat; to trick; to jostle by riding against one. JOCKEYISM, jok'e-izm, s. Practice of jockeys. JOCKEYSHIP, jok ́e-ship, 8. The art or practice of riding horses. JOCOSE, jo-kose', a. (jocosus, Lat.) Given to jokes and jesting; merry; waggish; containing a joke; sportive. JOCOSELY, jo-kose ́le, ad. In jest; for sport or game; waggishly. JOCOSENESS, jo-kose'nes, s. The quality of being jocose; waggery; merriment. JOCOSERIOUS, jo-ko-se re-us, a. Partaking of mirth and seriousness. Laugh aloud with them that laugh, With souls who've took their freedom up.-Green. JOCULAR, jok'u-lar, a. (jocularis, Lat.) Used in jest; merry; jocose; waggish; sportive; not serious. JOCULARITY, jok-u-lar'e-te, s. Merriment; jesting. JOCULARLY, jok'u-lar-le, ad. In jest; for sport or mirth. Jocular.-Obsolete. JOCULARY, jok'u-lar-e, a. JOCULATOR, jok'u-lay-tur, s. (Latin.) A jester; a droll; a minstrel. In the thirteenth century, a horse was exhibited by the joculators, which danced upou a rope.-Strutt. JOCULATORY, jok'u-lay-tur-e, a. Droll; merrily spoken. JOCUND, jok'und, a. (jocundus, Lat.) gay; airy; lively; sportive. JOCUNDITY, jo-kun'de-te, Merry; 8. State of being JOCUNDNESS, jok ́und-nes, merry; gaiety. JOCUNDLY, jok'und-le, ad. Merrily; gayly. JODES, jo'des, s. (iodes, violaceous, Gr. in reference to the colour of the fruit.) A genus of plants, natives of Java: Order, Berberaces. JOEL, jo'el, s. The name of one of the Hebrew minor prophets of the Old Testament, and of the book which he wrote. JOG, jog, v. a. To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to give notice or excite attention by a slight push ;-v. n. to move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to walk or travel idly, heavily, or slowly ;;-s. a push; a slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a rub; a small stop; obstruction. JOGGER, jog'gur, s. One who walks or moves heavily and slowly; one who gives a sudden push. JOGGING, jog'ging, s. A slight push or shake; the act of shaking. JOGGLE, jog gl, v. a. To shake slightly; to give a sudden but slight push ;-v. n. to shake. Jogglepiece, in Architecture, a truss-post, the shoulders and sockets of which receive the lower ends of the struts. JOGGLED, jog'gid, a. vent slipping. VOL. II. Fixed by serratures to pre D ture, the joints of stones or other masses, so indented that the adjacent stones, fitting into the indentations, are prevented from being pushed away from each other by any force perpendicular to the pressures by which they are thus held together. JOGHIS, jog'is, s. A sect of persons in the East Indies who never marry, nor hold any private property, but live on alms, and practise strange severities or mortifications. JOGUES, jogs, 8. In Hindoo chronology, certain YUGS, yugs, ages, eras, or periods of extraordinary length. JOHANNES, jo-han'niz, s. A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars. The word is often contracted into joe. It is so termed from its being struck in the reign and bearing the figure of King John of Portugal. JOHANNITE, jo-an'ite, s. (in honour of Archduke John of Austria.) A mineral of a grass-green colour, occurring in minute crystals. It is an anhydrous sulphate of uranium, mixed with sulphate of copper. Sp. gr. 3.19. H=2.0-2.5. JOHN, jon, 8. The name of the youngest and favourite Apostle of Jesus Christ, and of the gospel and three epistles in the New Testament written by him. John Bull, a collective by-name for the English nation, first used in Arbuthnot's satire; 'the history of John Bull' usually published in Swift's works. John Dory, the common name of the fish Zeus faber. JOHNIA, jon'e-na, s. (in honour of the Reverend Dr. John.) A genus of plants, consisting of small trees, natives of Chittagong and Coromandel: Order, Hippocratecex. JOHRENIA, jo-re'ne-a, s. (in honour of Mart. Dan. Johreni.) A genus of Glabrous umbelliferous herbs, natives of the Levant: Suborder, Orthospermæ. JOHNIUS, jon'e-us, s. A genus of fishes: Family, Percidæ. JOIN, joyn, v. a. (joindre, Fr.) To bring or set one thing in contiguity with another; to couple; to combine; to unite in league or marriage; to associate; to unite in any act; to unite in concord; -v. n. to grow to; to adhere; to be contiguous, close, or in contact; to unite with in marriage, league, confederacy, partnership, or society. JOINDER, joyn'dur, s. Joinder in action, is the coupling or joining of two in a suit or action against another. As where two joint owners of a sum of money are robbed upon the highway, they are to join in one action against the hundred. Joinder in demurrer, when there is a demurrer averring the pleading insufficient in law to answer the end proposed by it, the opposite party avers it to be sufficient, which is called a joinder in demurrer, and then the parties are at issue in point of law. Joinder of issue, when a party denies or traverses the fact pleaded by his antagonist, who has tendered the issue thus, "and this he prays may be inquired of by the country," or แ and of this he puts himself upon the country," the party denying the fact may immediately subjoin, "and the said A. B. doth the like." Which done, the issue is said to be joined, both parties having agreed to rest the fate of the cause upon the truth of the fact in question. JOINER, joyn'ur, s. One whose occupation is to 9 (2) JOYFUL JUDE. JOYFUL, joy'ful, a. Full of joy; very glad; exulting. Sometimes it has of before the cause of joy. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.-Pope. JOYFULLY, joy'ful-le, ad. With joy; gladly. JOYFULNESS, joy'ful-nes, s. Great gladness; joy. JOYLESS, joy'les, a. Destitute of joy; wanting joy; giving ho joy or pleasure. A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue, Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad.-Shaks. JOYLESSLY, joy'les-le, ad. Without receiving pleasure; without giving pleasure. JOYLESSNESS, joy'les-nes., s. State of being joyless. Joyors, joy'us, a. (joyeux, Fr.) Glad; gay; merry; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs With him he brought a jub of Malvesie, And eke another full of fine Vernage.-Chaucer. JUBEBE, ju-be'be, s. The common name of the plants of the genus Zizphus. JUBILANT, ju'be-lant, a. (jubilans, Lat.) Uttering songs of triumph; rejoicing; shouting with joy. JUBILATION, ju-be-la'shun, s. (jubilatio, Lat.) The act of declaring triumph. JUBILEE, ju'be-le, s. (jubile, Fr. jubilum, Lat.) A grand festival celebrated every fiftieth year by the Jews, to commemorate their deliverance out of Egypt. At this festival, all slaves or captives were set free, bondservants were liberated, debts cancelled, and lands which had been alienated during the whole period, reverted to their former owners: it was held as a time of great rejoicing; -a season of great public joy and festivity; a solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, in which the pope grants plenary indulgence to offenders. Pope Boniface VIII. ordered it to be observed every hundred years; Clement VI. every fiftieth year; and Pope Sextus VI. every twentyfifth. JUCUNDITY, ju-kun'de-te, s. (jucunditas, Lat.) Pleasantness; agreeableness.-Obsolete. JUDAIC, ju-da'ik, a. Pertaining to the JUDAICAL, ju-da'e-kal, Jews. JUDAICALLY, ju-da'e-kal-le, ad. After the Jewish manner. JUDAISM, ju'day-ism, s. (judaisme, Fr.) A word which includes, in its most extensive meaning, not only the system of religion which is believed in by the Jews, but also all those laws, moral, civil, political, and ritual, which are contained in the five books of Moses; conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies. JUDAIZATION, ju-day-e-za'shun, s. Conformity to the Jewish religion and ritual; an inculcating of such conformity. JUDAIZE, ju'day-ize, v. n. (judaiser, Fr.) To conform to the religious doctrines and rites of the Jews. JUDAIZER, ju'day-i-zur, s. One who conforms to the religion of the Jews. JUDAS-TREE, ju'das-tre, s. The common name of the plants of the genus Cercis. JUDE, jude, 8. The name of an epistle in the New Testament, written by Jude, the brother of James the younger, and son of Joseph. JUDGE JUDGMENT. JUDGE, judj, 8. (juge, Fr.) One who is invested with authority to hear and determine causes, civil or criminal, between parties; the Supreme Being; one who presides in a court of judicature; one who has skill to decide on the merits of a question, or on the value of anything; one who can discern truth and propriety; a juryman or juror. In Jewish Antiquity, the judges were certain supreme magistrates who governed the Israelites from the time of Joshua till the reign of Saul;—v. n. (juger, Fr.) to compare facts or ideas, and perceive their agreement or disagreement, and thus to distinguish truth from falsehood; to form an opinion; to bring to issue the reasoning or deliberations of the mind; to hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to pass sentence; to discern; to distinguish; to consider accurately for the purpose of forming an opinion or conclusion ;-v. a. to hear and determine a case; to examine and decide; to try; to examine and pass sentence on; rightly, to understand and dis cern; He that is spiritual judgeth all things.-1 Cor. ii. 15. to censure rashly; to pass severe sentence; to esteem; to think; to reckon; to rule or govern; to doom to punishment; to punish. JUDGER, judj'ur, s. One who judges or passes sen tence. JUDGES, judj'is, s. The name of a book of the Old Testament, containing the history of the Israelites under the government of the judges. Judices selecti, or select judges, in Roman Antiquity, were persons summoned by the prætor to give their verdict in criminal matters in the Roman courts as juries do in ours. JUDGESHIP, judj'ship, s. The office of a judge. JUDGMENT, judj'ment, s. (jugement, Fr.) The act or process of the mind in comparing its ideas, to find their agreement or disagreement, and to ascertain truth; the faculty of the mind by which man is enabled to compare ideas and ascertain the relations of terms and propositions; doom; the right or power of passing judgment; the act of exercising judicature; judicatory; determination; decision; opinion; notion; sentence against a criminal; condemnation, in a scriptural sense; punishment inflicted by providence with reference to some particular crime; This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble, Touches us not with pity.-Shaks. distribution of justice; judiciary law; statute; the final trial of the human race, when God will decide the fate of every individual, and award sentence according to justice. Judgment or trial by the holy cross, a trial in ecclesiastical cases, anciently in use among the Saxons. Judgments in criminal cases, in Law, are of two kinds. 1. Such as are fixed and stated, and always the same for the species of crimes. 2. Such as are discretionary and variable, according to the different circumstances of each case. Judgment roll, a parchment roll upon which the proceedings in the cause up to the issue, and the award of venire inclusive, together with the judgment which the court has awarded in the cause, are entered. This roll, when thus made up, is deposited in the treasury of the court, in order that it may be kept with safety and integrity. Judgment day, the last day, or day when final judgment will be pronounced ou the subjects of God's moral government. Judgment hall, the hall where courts are held. Judg. |