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.

Same as Kaffir.

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.

A desert in Southwestern Africa, most of which is located in the country of Botswana.

The sea otter.

A Philippine timber tree (Toona calantas or Cedrela calantas) having hard red fragrant wood.

A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.

One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks.

An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.

See Calendar.

See Calendarial.

See 3d Calender.

Same as Calends.

The glasswort (Salsola Kali).

A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. See also hookah.

See Caliph.

Formed like kali, or glasswort.

Forming alkalies with oxygen, as some metals.

Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists.

The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar.

A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.

See Calmucks.

A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).

See Caloyer.

One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.

Same as Calcimine.

Crooked; awry.

The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm.

A low ridge.

A mountain in India and Tibet, 25,447 feet high.

A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado.

A curious South American bird (Anhima or Palamedea cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow.

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; called also Kamchadals and Itelmen.

See Khan.

A native of the Sandwich Islands.

The Kanawha River, a tributary of the Ohio River.