Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JEW'EL, n. [It. gioia, joy, mirth, a jewel; gioiello, a jewel; Fr. joyau; Sp. joya, joyel; G. juwel; D. juweel. It is from the root of joy. Low L. jocale. Class Cg.]

1. An ornament worn by ladies, usually consisting of a precious stone, or set with one or more; a pendant worn in the ear.
2. A precious stone. Shak.
3. A name expressive of fondness. A mother calls her child her jewel.

JEW'EL, v.t.

To dress or adorn with jewels. B. Jonson.

JEW'EL-ED, pp.

Adorned with jewels.

JEW'EL-ER, n.

One who makes or deals in jewels and other ornaments.

JEW'EL-HOUSE, or JEW'EL-OF-FICE, n.

The place where the royal ornaments are reposited. Shak.

JEW'EL-ING, ppr.

Adorning with jewels.

JEW'EL-LIKE, a.

Brilliant as a jewel. Shak.

JEW'EL-RY, n.

Jewels in general.

JEW'ESS, n.

A Hebrew woman. Acts xxiv.

JEW'ISH, a.

Pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews. Tit. i.

JEW'ISH-LY, adv.

In the manner of the Jews. Donne.

JEW'ISH-NESS, n.

The rites of the Jews. Martin.

JEW'RY, n.

Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews, whence the name of a street in London. Chaucer.

JEWS-EAR', a.

The popular name of a species of Fungus, the Peziza auricula, bearing some resemblance to the human ear. Johnson. Lee.

JEWS-FRANK-IN'CENSE, n.

A plant, a species of Styrax.

JEWS'-HARP, n. [Jew and harp.]

An instrument of music shaped like a harp, which, placed between the teeth and by means of a spring struck by the finger, gives a sound which is modulated by the breath into soft melody. It is called also Jews-trump.

JEWS-MAL'LOW, n.

A plant, a species of Corchorus.

JEWS'-PITCH, n.

Asphaltum, – which see.

JEWS'-STONE, n.

The clavated spine of a very large egg-shaped sea urchin petrified. It is a regular figure, oblong and rounded, about three quarters of an inch in length, and half an inch in diameter. Its color is a pale dusky gray, with a tinge of dusky red. Hill.

JEZ'E-BEL, n.

An impudent, daring, vicious woman. Spectator.

JIB, n.

The foremost sail of a ship, being a large stay-sail extended from the outer end of the jib-boom toward the fore-topmast-head. In sloops, it is on the bowsprit, and extends toward the lower mast-head. Mar. Dict.

JIB'-BOOM, n.

A spar which is run out from the extremity of the bowsprit, and which serves as a continuation of it. Beyond this is sometimes extended the flying-jib-boom.

JIBE, v.t.

To shift a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.

JIB'ED, pp.

Shifted from one side to the other, as a boom-sail.

JIB'ING, ppr.

Shifting from one side to the other, as a boom-sail.