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.

A delicate fiber, produced in the Philippine Islands from an unidentified plant, of which dresses, etc., are made.

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.

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.

Same as Kaffir.

One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal, including the Ponda, Xosa, and Tembu; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs. One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia.

Franz Kafka, a writer, b. 1883, d. 1924.

Frightening, threating, and bewildering in a vague and unexplicable way; -- of situations or regulations. Often used to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no reasonable solution.

See Caftan.

A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work.

A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern.

The colugo.

A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant.

A long-nosed monkey (Nasalis larvatus, formerly Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. It is now an endangered species.

A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.

Same as Caimacam.

Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.

Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

See Cenozoic.

See Caique.

A pale buff or white crystalline alkaloid derived from quinoline, and used as an antipyretic in medicine.

An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.

The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.

A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).

A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptilus), native of New Zealand. It lives in holes during the day, but is active at night. It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance. It has large wings, but can fly only a short distance. Called also owl parrot, night parrot, and night kaka.

A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.

Government by the worst men.

See Cacoxene.