Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter J - Page 12

Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

Juke (n.) The neck of a bird.

Juke (v. i.) To perch on anything, as birds do.

Julaceous (a.) Like an ament, or bearing aments; amentaceous.

Julep (n.) A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs

Julep (n.) a sweet, demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle.

Julep (n.) A beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep.

Julian (a.) Relating to, or derived from, Julius Caesar.

Julienne (n.) A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

Juliform (a.) Having the shape or appearance of a julus or catkin.

Juli (pl. ) of Julus

Julus (n.) A catkin or ament. See Ament.

Julies (pl. ) of July

July (n.) The seventh month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

July-flower (n.) See Gillyflower.

Jumart (n.) The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare.

Jumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Jumble

Jumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jumble

Jumble (v. t.) To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

Jumble (v. i.) To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.

Jumble (n.) A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.

Jumble (n.) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

Jumblement (n.) Confused mixture.

Jumbler (n.) One who confuses things.

Jumblingly (adv.) In a confused manner.

Jument (n.) A beast; especially, a beast of burden.

Jump (n.) A kind of loose jacket for men.

Jump (n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.

Jumped (imp. & p. p.) of Jump

Jumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jump

Jump (v. i.) To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.

Jump (v. i.) To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.

Jump (v. i.) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.

Jump (v. t.) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.

Jump (v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.

Jump (v. t.) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

Jump (v. t.) To join by a butt weld.

Jump (v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

Jump (v. t.) To bore with a jumper.

Jump (n.) The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

Jump (n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture.

Jump (n.) The space traversed by a leap.

Jump (n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

Jump (n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

Jump (a.) Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.

Jump (adv.) Exactly; pat.

Jumper (n.) One who, or that which, jumps.

Jumper (n.) A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

Jumper (n.) A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

Jumper (n.) The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

Jumper (n.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Jumper (n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

Jumper (n.) A loose upper garment

Jumper (n.) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.

Jumper (n.) A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.

Jumping (p. a. & vb. n.) of Jump, to leap.

Jumpweld (v. t.) See Buttweld, v. t.

Juncaceous (a.) Of. pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Juncaceae), of which the common rush (Juncus) is the type.

Juncate (n.) See Junket.

Juncite (n.) A fossil rush.

Junco (n.) Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.

Juncous (a.) Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous.

Junction (n.) The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

Junction (n.) The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross.

Juncture (n.) A joining; a union; an alliance.

Juncture (n.) The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones.

Juncture (n.) A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency.

June (n.) The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.

Juneating (n.) A kind of early apple.

Juneberry (n.) The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry.

Juneberry (n.) The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree.

Jungermanniae (pl. ) of Jungermannia

Jungermannia (n.) A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceae.

Jungle (n.) A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.

Jungly (a.) Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

Junior (a.) Less advanced in age than another; younger.

Junior (a.) Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.

Junior (a.) Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.

Junior (n.) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

Junior (n.) A younger person.

Junior (n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.

Juniority (n.) The state or quality of being junior.

Juniper (n.) Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferae.

Juniperin (n.) A yellow amorphous substance extracted from juniper berries.

Juniperite (n.) One of the fossil Coniferae, evidently allied to the juniper.

Junk (n.) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

Junk (n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

Junk (n.) Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

Junk (n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

Junk (n.) A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

Junker (n.) A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

Junkerism (n.) The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

Junket (n.) A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

Junket (n.) A feast; an entertainment.

Junket (v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.

Junketed (imp. & p. p.) of Junket

Junketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Junket

Junket (v. t.) To give entertainment to; to feast.

Junketing (n.) A feast or entertainment; a revel.

Junketries (n. pl.) Sweetmeats.

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