Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter J - Page 11

Judge (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

Judge (v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.

Judged (imp. & p. p.) of Judge

Judging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Judge

Judge (a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.

Judge (a.) To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.

Judge (v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.

Judge (v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.

Judge (v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.

Judge (v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

Judge (v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

Judge (v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.

Judger (n.) One who judges.

Judgeship (n.) The office of a judge.

Judgment (v. i.) The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.

Judgment (v. i.) The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.

Judgment (v. i.) The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.

Judgment (v. i.) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.

Judgment (v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.

Judgment (v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.

Judgment (v. i.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.

Judgment (v. i.) The final award; the last sentence.

Judicable (v. i.) Capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon.

Judicative (a.) Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty.

Judicatory (a.) Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.

Judicatory (n.) A court of justice; a tribunal.

Judicatory (n.) Administration of justice.

Judicature (n.) The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.

Judicature (n.) A court of justice; a judicatory.

Judicature (n.) The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.

Judicial (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.

Judicial (a.) Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind.

Judicial (a.) Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.

Judicial (a.) Judicious.

Judicially (adv.) In a judicial capacity or judicial manner.

Judiciary (a.) Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.

Judiciary (n.) That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary.

Judicious (a.) Of or relating to a court; judicial.

Judicious (a.) Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet.

Judiciously (adv.) In a judicious manner; with good judgment; wisely.

Judiciousness (n.) The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.

Jug (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

Jug (n.) A pitcher; a ewer.

Jug (n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.

Jugged (imp. & p. p.) of Jug

Jugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jug

Jug (v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.

Jug (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.

Jug (v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

Jug (v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.

Jugal (a.) Relating to a yoke, or to marriage.

Jugal (a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.

Jugata (n. pl.) The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined.

Jugated (a.) Coupled together.

Juge (n.) A judge.

Jugement (n.) Judgment.

Juger (n.) A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.

Jugger (n.) An East Indian falcon. See Lugger.

Juggernaut (n.) One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos.

Juggled (imp. & p. p.) of Juggle

Juggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Juggle

Juggle (v. i.) To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.

Juggle (v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture.

Juggle (v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.

Juggle (n.) A trick by sleight of hand.

Juggle (n.) An imposture; a deception.

Juggle (n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.

Juggler (n.) One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.

Juggler (n.) A deceiver; a cheat.

Juggleress (n.) A female juggler.

Jugglery (n.) The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

Jugglery (n.) Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.

Juggling (a.) Cheating; tricky.

Juggling (n.) Jugglery; underhand practice.

Juggs (n. pl.) See Jougs.

Juglandin (n.) An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye.

Juglandine (n.) An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia).

Juglans (n.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.

Juglone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin.

Jugular (a.) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.

Jugular (a.) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen.

Jugular (a.) Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes.

Jugular (a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein.

Jugular (a.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares).

Jugulated (imp. & p. p.) of Jugulate

Jugulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jugulate

Jugulate (v. t.) To cut the throat of.

Jugula (pl. ) of Jugulum

Jugulum (n.) The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.

Juga (pl. ) of Jugum

Jugums (pl. ) of Jugum

Jugum (n.) One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.

Jugum (n.) A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.

Juice (n.) The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking.

Juice (v. t.) To moisten; to wet.

Juiceless (a.) Lacking juice; dry.

Juiciness (n.) The state or quality of being juicy; succulence plants.

Juicy (superl.) A bounding with juice; succulent.

Juise (n.) Judgment; justice; sentence.

Jujube (n.) The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z. jujuba, Z. vulgaris, Z. mucronata, and Z. Lotus. The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi, or lotus eaters.

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