Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JU'GA-TED, a.

Coupled together.

JUG'GLE, n.

1. A trick by legerdemain.
2. An imposture; a deception. Tillotson.

JUG'GLE, v.i.

1. , [D. guichelen or goochelen; G. gaukeln; It. giocolare; Dan. gögler, to juggle; giekker, to joke; Sw. gäck, a jester; gäcka, to mock, to make sport; L. joculor, to jest, from jocus, a joke; jocor, to joke which coincides with the Sp. and Port. jugar, to play, to sport; Fr. jouer, contracted. It is certain that joke and jocular, and probable that joy, are from the same root as juggle; perhaps Ch. {foreign} hukk, or chuk, to laugh, to play, to sport. Class Gk, No. 18.]
2. To play tricks by slight of hand; to amuse and make sport by tricks, which make a false show of extraordinary powers.
3. To practice artifice or imposture. Be these juggling fiends no more believed. Shak.

JUG'GLE, v.t.

To deceive by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mockeries? Shak.

JUG'GLER, n. [Sp. juglar; Fr. jongleur; It. giocolatore; D. guichelaer.]

1. One who practices or exhibits tricks by slight of hand; one who makes sport by tricks of extraordinary dexterity, by which the spectator is deceived. Jugglers are punishable by law.
2. A cheat; a deceiver; a trickish fellow. Shak.

JUG'GLER-Y, n.

Legerdemain.

JUG'GLING, n.

The act or practice of exhibiting tricks of legerdemain.

JUG'GLING, ppr.

Playing tricks by slight of hand; deceiving.

JUG'GLING-LY, adv.

In a deceptive manner.

JUGU-LAR, a. [L. jugulum, the neck, either from jugum, a yoke, or from its radical sense, to extend, to join. See Join.]

Pertaining to the neck or throat; as, the jugular vein.

JU'GU-LAR, n.

A large vein of the neck.

JU'GU-LATE, v.t. [L. jugulo.]

To kill. Hall.

JU'GU-LA-TING, ppr.

Killing; destroying.

JUICE, or JUSE, n. juse. [D. jugs; Fr. jus. The regular orthography is juse.]

The sap of vegetables, the fluid part of animal substances. Encyc.

JUICE, v.t.

To moisten.

JUIC-ED, pp.

Moistened.

JUICE-LESS, a. ju'seless.

Destitue of juice; dry; without moisture. More.

JUI-CI-NESS, n. ju'siness.

The state of abounding with juice; succulence in plants.

JUIC-ING, ppr.

Moistening.

JUI-CY, a. ju'sy.

Abounding with juice; moist; succulent. Bacon.

JU-ISE, n. [L. jut.]

Judgment; justice. [Obs.] Gower.

JU'JUB, or JU'JUBE, n. [L. zizyphum; Pers. {foreign} zizafon.]

The name of a plant and of its fruit, which is pulpy and resembles a small plum. The plant is Zizyphus jujube, a native of the East Indies. The fruit was formerly used in pectoral decoctions, but it is now in little reputation. Encyc. Miller.

JUKE, v.i. [Fr. jucher.]

To perch. [Not used.]

JU'LEP, n. [Ar. {foreign} julabon; Pers. id.; Fr. julep; It. gittlebbo.]

In pharmacy, a medicine composed of some proper liquor and a sirup of sugar, of extemporaneous preparation, serving as a vehicle to other forms of medicine. Encyc. Quincy.

JU'LI-AN, a.

Noting the old account of the year, as regulated by Julius Cesar, which continued to be used till 1752, when the Gregorian year, or new style, was adopted. Julian Alps, called also Carnian, between Veneta and Noricum.