A natural family of tufted herbs resembling grasses, including the true rushes; called also the rush family.

Of. pertaining to, or resembling, a natural family of plants (Juncace/), of which the common rush (Juncus) is the type.

See Junket.

A fossil rush.

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

Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous.

A joining; a union; an alliance.

The type genus of the Juncaceae, comprising the rushes; they are perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions.

The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.

See june beetle.

A kind of early apple.

The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and shad tree.

Carl Gustav Jung, a noted Swiss psychiatrist and Psychologist(1875-1961).

A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the family, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniace/.

A natural family of plants comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales.

A large order of chiefly tropical liverworts.

of or pertaining to Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist.

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.

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

A younger person.

The state or quality of being junior.

Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Conifer/.

A yellow amorphous substance extracted from juniper berries.

One of the fossil Conifer/, evidently allied to the juniper.

The genus of trees comprising the junipers.

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.

same as cast-off. Contrasted with kept, retained, and saved.

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

The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

To give entertainment to; to feast.

A feast or entertainment; a revel.

Sweetmeats.

a field where junk is collected and stored for resale.

suggestive of a statue.

A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.

A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians.

Jeopardy.

Same as Jupon.

1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.

A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata, in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended.

An oath.

Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, about 190 to 140 million years ago, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, O/lite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains. It was noted for the predominance of dinosaurs on land, and the development of the first birds and mammals. The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.

Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution.

Jurisdiction.

Jordan.

A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevall/, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as Caranx fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.

Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence; acting in the distribution of justice; used in courts of law; according to law; legal; as, juridical law.

In a juridical manner.

A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.

Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as, jurisdictional rights.

Having jurisdiction.

The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice.

One skilled in law or jurisprudence.

Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.

One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law, such as a judge, lawyer, or legal scholar; a writer on civil and international law.

Of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence.

For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance.

to rig for temporary service; to construct flimsily and in makeshift fashion. See Jury, a.

Rigged for temporary service; done or made using whatever materials are available; makeshift; as, the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear. See Jury, a.

One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.

Indicating or expressive of a mild command; as, the jussive case. The jussive case; a jussive mood, form, word, or construction.

A joust.

To administer justice to.

Liable to trial in a court of justice.

Justiceship.

Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice.

One who administers justice; a judge.

The office or dignity of a justice.

Proper to be examined in a court of justice.

Same as Justiciary.

An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

Formerly, a close coat or waistcoat with sleeves.

Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.

Having power to justify; justificatory.

One who justifies or vindicates; a justifier.

Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.

Arranged and spaced so as to line up at the left side or right side of the printed page, or on both sides; as, left justified; right justified.

One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves.

To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.

Of or pertaining to the Institutes or laws of the Roman Justinian.

An encounter or shock; a jostle.

In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately.

The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.

That which projects or juts; a projection.

The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and Corchorus capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.

Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark.

Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland.

Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc.

To project beyond.

A youth.

A growing young.

Growing or becoming young.

A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly.

A child or person of minor age who commits acts which would be considered criminal if performed by an adult, such as theft, vandalism, or violence; especially, one who habitually acts in such an antisocial manner and cannot be controlled by parents. Abbreviated JD.

A hormone secreted by insects which inhibits the molting of an insect from its juvenile into its adult form; also, substances having similar activity, but produced by plants.

The state or quality of being juvenile; juvenility.

A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.

The camel's thorn. See under Camel.

Same as Juise.

To place in juxtaposition.

To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose.

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.

See Gimmal.

a knockout; a blow that renders the opponent unconscious; -- used especially in boxing.

A mountain in Northern Kashmir; it is one of the highest in the world, 28,250 feet high.

An unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma.

A spiritual aspect of the individual, living within the body during life, and surviving the body after death. It was believed to be one of two spirits inhabiting the body, the other being the ba, which deserts teh body at death.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca, toward which all Muslims must pray. It contains a sacred black stone, believed by Muslims to be one of the precious stones of paradise, and to have been brought to Abraham when he was contructing the Kaaba, by the Angel Gabriel. The Kaaba itself predates Mohammed, having been a pantheon which contained Arab idols, which were destroyed by Mohammed.

The hartbeest.

See Cabala.

See Cabassou.

See Cabob, n. v. t.

A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.

A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber.

The jackdaw.

A Turkish judge. See Cadi.

The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.

See Coffle.

See Cafila.