Joyful; merry; pleasant; jolly.

Same as Jowl.

A merrymaking; noisy festivity.

In a jolly manner.

Jollity.

Jollity; noisy mirth.

Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment.

A marine in the English navy.

A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.

Jollity.

A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.

One who, or that which, jolts.

A dunce; a blockhead.

In a jolting manner.

That jolts; as, a jolty coach.

The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.

Of or pertaining to Jones.

A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Jonquilla), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow or white fragrant flowers. The root has emetic properties. It is sometimes called the rush-leaved daffodil. See Illust. of Corona.

A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Muslims of the better class.

See Jorum.

A landlocked country of the Middle East, surrounded by Israel, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and that area on the west bank of the Jordan river which was once claimed by Jordan, and is at present occupied by Israel and in part governed by a Palestinian authority. It has a population of 4,212,152 (1996) in a total area of 89,213 sq km. The population is predominantly Arab and Moslem. Officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, it was formerly called Trans-Jordan when occupied by the British. The government is a constitutional monarchy, with King Hussein Bin Talal Al Hashimi as its ruler since 2 May 1953. Jordan is a small developing Arab country, having a Gross Domestic Product of $19.3 billion in 1995.

a genus of fishes, including the American flagfish (Jordanella floridae), of Florida.

A native or inhabitant of Jordan.

A large drinking vessel; also, its contents.

An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front.

A small gudgeon.

A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.

A command to a horse, probably meaning /stand still./

A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference.

Crowding; hustling.

To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down.

One who jots down memoranda.

An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke.

Jollity; merriment.

See Juke.

See Jowl.

A unit of work which is equal to 107 ergs (the unit of work in the C. G. S. system of units), and is equivalent to one watt-second, the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm; also called the absolute joule. It is abbreviated J or j. The international joule is slightly larger, being 1.000167 times the absolute joule. The absolute joule is approximately equal to 0.737562 foot pounds, 0.239006 gram-calories (small calories), and 3.72506 x 10-7 horsepower-hours, and 0.000948451 B.t.u.

An integrating wattmeter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine.

A jolt; a shake; a hard trot.

Daily; diurnal.

the linguistic style in which newspapers are written.

One who keeps a journal or diary; a diarist.

Pertaining to journals, journalism, or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as, journalistic literature or enterprise.

to conduct or contribute to a public journal; to follow the profession of a journalist.

To traverse; to travel over or through.

Worn out with journeying.

One who journeys.

the act or process of traveling from one place to another.

Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman.

Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.

A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.

One who jousts or tilts.

One who lives a jovial life.

The quality or state of being jovial.

In a jovial manner; merrily; gayly.

Noisy mirth; joviality.

Joviality.

Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet).

Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter.

An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary, and opposed the asceticism of his time.

A dog with large jowls, as the beagle.

A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster.

To give joy to; to congratulate.

Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness.

Joyance.

Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart.

the emotion of great happiness.

Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.

Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.

Causing joyfulness.

A standardized format for storing graphic data in binary computer files, allowing over 16 million different colors. It allows for lossy compression, i. e. the compression of data into a form which re-expands into an image close, but not identical to the original image. Files stored in this format usually carry the extension jpg or jpeg. Compare GIF.

A vessel for holding ale or wine; a jug.

A dance developed by slaves in the U. S., having a lively tune and accompanied by a complex rhythmic clapping, and by slapping the thighs.

Fringed with long, pendent hair.

A chancel screen or rood screen. The gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read.

a feeling of extreme joy; jubilation.

a feeling of extreme joy; jubilance; jubilation.

Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting.

In a jubilant manner.

Pertaining to, or having the character of, a jubilee.

To exult; to rejoice.

A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.

Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity.

One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew.

Of or pertaining to the Jews.

After the Jewish manner.

The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses, and for many adherents, in the Talmud.

One who believes and practices Judaism.

Of or pertaining to Judaism.

The act of Judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish religion or ritual.

To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism.

One who conforms to or inculcates Judaism; those Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshiped in the temple at Jerusalem.

See Raskolnik.

The disciple who betrayed Christ. A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship. Treacherous; betraying.

Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.

See Jacksnipe.

Of or pertaining to Judea. A native of Judea; a Jew.

having origins in both Judaism and Christianity; of or pertaining to Christianity; as, the Judeo-Christian tradition.

To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.

Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this. Judge-made law is contrasted with statutory law and civil law.

One who judges.

The office or position of a judge.

The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions.

depending on judgment; as, a judgmental error.

Same as judgeship; -- a variant spelling.

Capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon.

Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty.

Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.

In a judicial capacity or judicial manner.

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.

Of or relating to a court; judicial.

In a judicious manner; with good judgment; wisely.

The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.

a sport adapted from jujitsu, originally a method of self-defense without weapons, and similar to wrestling; it was developed in Japan.

To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined.

Coupled together.

A judge.

Judgment.

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