Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JU-DI'CIAL, a.

1. Pertaining to courts of justice; as, judicial power.
2. Practiced in the distribution of justice; as, judicial proceedings.
3. Proceeding from a court of justice; as, a judicial determination.
4. Issued by a court under its seal; as, a judicial writ.
5. Inflicted, as a penalty or in judgment; as, judicial hardness of heart; judicial punishment.

JU-DI'CIAL-LY, adv.

1. In the forms of legal justice; as, sentence judicially declared.
2. By way of penalty or judgment; as, to be judicially punished.

JU-DI'CIA-RY, a. [Fr. judiciaire; L. judiciarius.]

1. Passing judgment or sentence. Boyle.
2. Pertaining to the courts of judicature or legal tribunals.

JU-DI'CIA-RY, n.

That branch of government which is between parties, and of criminal prosecutions; the system of courts of justice in a government. An independent judiciary is the firmest bulwark of freedom. United States.

JU-DI'CIOUS, a. [Fr. judicieux; It. giudicioso.]

1. According to sound judgment; wise; prudent; rational; adapted to obtain a good end by the best means; used of things. Nothing is more important to success it the world than a judicious application of time, unless it may be a judicious expenditure of money.
2. Acting according to sound judgment; possessing sound, judgment; wise; directed by reason and wisdom; used of persons as, a judicious magistrate; a judicious historian.

JU-DI'CIOUS-LY, adv.

With good judgment; with discretion or wisdom; skillfully. Longinus has judiciously preferred the sublime genius that sometimes errs, to the middling or indifferent one, which makes few faults, but seldom rises to excellence. Dryden.

JU-DI'CIOUS-NESS, n.

The quality of acting or being according to sound judgment.

JUG, n. [Junius mentions the Danish jugge, an urn or water-pot.]

A vessel, usually earthen, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. Swift.

JUG, v.i.

To utter a particular sound, as certain birds. [Local.]

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. חוך 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. guichelær.]

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. juys; 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.