Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JOL'LI-LY, adv. [See Jolly.]

With noisy mirth; with a disposition to noisy mirth. Dryden.

JOL'LI-MENT, n.

Mirth; merriment. [Obs.] Spenser.

JOL'LI-NESS, or JOL'LI-TY, n. [from jolly.]

1. Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity. All was now turned to jollity and game. Milton.
2. Elevation of spirit; gayety. He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel for him who was only worthy to enter into it. Sidney. [This word in America is not now applied to respectable company.]

JOL'LY, a. [Fr. joli, pretty; It. giulivo, joyful, merry. Qu. Sax. geola, gehol, a feast, the yule, or feast of the nativity.]

1. Merry; gay; lively; full of life and mirth; jovial. It expresses more life and noise than cheerful; as, a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. [It is seldom applied in colloquial usage to respectable company. We rarely say of respectable persons, they are jolly. It is applied to the young and the vulgar.]
2. Expressing mirth or inspiring it. And with his jolly pipe delights the groves. Prior. The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors. Irving.
3. Exciting mirth and gayety; as, jolly May. Dryden.
4. Like one in high health; pretty. South.

JOL'LY-BOAT, n.

A small boat belonging toe ship. [Sw. julle, a yawl.]

JOLT, n.

A shock or shake by a sudden jerk, as in a carriage. Swift.

JOLT, v.i.

To shake with short abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground. The carriage jolts.

JOLT, v.t.

To shake with sudden jerks, as in a carriage on rough ground, or on a high trotting horse; as, the horse or carriage jolts the rider.

JOLT-ED, pp.

Shaken with sudden jerks.

JOLT-ER, n.

He or that which jolts.

JOLT-HEAD, n.

A greathead; a dunce; a blockhead. Shak.

JOLT-ING, ppr.

Giving sudden jerks or shakes.

JOLT-ING-LY, adv.

In a jolting manner.

JON'QUIL, a. [Fr. jonquille; It. giunchiglia, guinco; L. juncus, a rush, and It. giglio, a lily. It is sometimes called the rush-leafed daffodil.]

A plant of the genus Narcissus, bearing beautiful flowers of various colors, yellow and white. Encyc.

JOR'DEN, n.

A vessel for chamber uses. Swift.

JO'SO, n.

A small fish of the gudgeon kind.

JOS'TLE, v.t. [jos'l. Fr. jouter, for jouster; It. giostrare; Sp. jusler. Written also justle.]

To run against and shake; to push.

JOS'TLED, pp.

Run against; pushed. We say, a thing jostled out of its place.

JOS'TLING, n.

A running against; a crowding.

JOS'TLING, ppr.

Running against; pushing.

JOT, n. [Gr. {foreign}, Ch. Heb. yod, Syr. yudh, the name of the letter {foreign} or i.]

An iota; a point; a tittle; the least quantity assignable. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all shall be fulfilled. Matth. v. A man may read much, and acquire not a jot of knowledge or be a jot the wiser. Anon.

JOT, v.t.

To set down; to make a memorandum of.

JOT'TING, n.

A memorandum. Todd.

JOT'TING, ppr.

Making a memorandum of.

JOUIS'SANCE, n. [Fr.]

Jollity; merriment. [Not in use.] Spenser.