Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. [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.]

1. To play tricks by slight of hand; to amuse and make sport by tricks, which make a false show of extraordinary powers.
2. 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.

JUICE'LESS, a. [ju'seless.]

Destitute of juice; dry; without moisture. – More.