Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JUMP'ER, n.

One who jumps.

JUMP'ING, ppr.

Leaping; springing; bounding.

JUNC'ATE, n. [It. giuncata, cream cheese; Fr. jonchée de creme, a kind of cream cheese served in a frail of green rushes, mind for that reason so called, or because made in a frail or basket of rushes; L.juncus, a rush.]

1. A cheese-cake; a kind of sweetmeat of curds and sugar. Johnson.
2. Any kind of delicate food. Milton.
3. A furtive or private entertainment. [It is now written junket.]

JUNC'OUS, a. [L. junceus or juncosus, from juncus, a rush.]

Full of bulrushes. [Little used.]

JUNC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. junctio, from jungo, to join.]

1. The act of operation of joining; as, the junction of two armies or detachments.
2. Union; coalition; combination.
3. The place or point of union.

JUNC'TURE, n. [L. juncture; Sp. juntura; It. giuntura; from L. jungo, to join.]

1. A joining; union; amity; as, the juncture of hearts. [Little used.] King Charles.
2. A union of two bodies; a seam; particularly, a joint or articulation. Encyc.
3. The line or point at which two bodies are joined. Boyle.
4. A point of time; particularly, a point rendered critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances. Addison.

JUNE, n. [L. junius; Fr. juin; It. giugno; Sp.junio.]

The sixth month of the year, when the sun enters the sign Cancer.

JUN'GLE, n. [Hindoo.]

In Hindoostan, a thick wood of small trees or shrubs. Asiat. Res.

JUN'GLY, a.

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles. Ibm.

JUN-IOR, a. [L.from juvenis, young; quasi., juvenior.]

Younger; not as old as another; as, a junior partner in a company. It is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in one family or town, and opposed to elder; as, John Doe junior.

JUN-IOR, n.

A person younger than another. The fools, my juniors by a year. Swift.

JUN-IOR'I-TY, n.

The state of being junior. Bullokar.

JU'NI-PER, n. [L. juniperus; It. ginepro; Fr. genevre; Sp. enebro.]

A tree or shrub, Juniperus communis, bearing fruit of a bluish color, of a warm, pungent, sweet taste, yielding when fresh, by expression, a rich, sweet, aromatic juice. They are useful carminatives and stomachics. The wood of the tree is of a reddish color, hard and durable, and is used in cabinet work and veneering. The oil of juniper mixed with that of nuts makes an excellent varnish; and the resin powdered is used under the name of pounce. Encyc.

JUNK, n. [L. juncus, It. giunco, Sp. junco, Fr. jonc, a bulrush, of which ropes were made in early ages.]

1. Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making points, gaskets, mats, &c., and when untwisted and picked to pieces, it forms oakum for filling the seams of ships. Mar. Dict.
2. A ship used in China; a Chinese vessel. [An Eastern word.]
3. A thick piece. [See Chunk.]

JUNK'ET, n. [See Juncate.]

1. A sweetmeat. Shak.
2. A stolen entertainment.

JUNK'ET, v.i.

1. To feast in secret; to make an entertainment by stealth. Swift.
2. To feast. Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.

JU'NO, n.

In mythology, the name of the Latin divinity who presided over marriages, and who was supposed to protect married women.

JUN'TA, n.

A grand Spanish council of state.

JUN'TO, n. [Sp. junta, a meeting or council, from L. junctus, joined; It. grunto.]

1. Primarily, a select council or assembly, which deliberates in secret on any affair of government. In a good sense, it is not used in English; but hence,
2. A cabal; a meeting or collection of men combined for secret deliberation and intrigue for party purposes; a faction; as a junto of ministers. Gulliver.

JU'PI-TER, n. [L. the air or heavens; Jovis pater.]

1. The supreme deity among the Greeks and Romans.
2. One of the superior planets, remarkable for its brightness. Its diameter is about eighty-nine thousand miles; its distance from the sun, four hundred and ninety millions of miles, and its revolution round the sun, a little less than twelve years.

JUP-PON, n. [Fr. jupon; It. giabone.]

A short close coat. Dryden.

JU'RAT, n. [Fr. from L. juratus, sworn, from juro, to swear.]

In England, a magistrate in some corporations; an alderman, or an assistant to a bailif. Encyc.

JU'RA-TA-O-RY, a. [Fr. juratoire, from L. juro, to swear.]

Comprising an oath; as, juratory caution. [Little used.] Jure divino. [L.] By divine right.

JU-RID'IC-AL, a. [L.juridicus; jus, juris, law, and dico, to pronounce.]

1. Acting in the distribution of justice; pertaining to a judge.
2. Used in courts of law or tribunals of justice. Hale.

JU-RID'IC-ALLY, adv.

According to forms of law, or proceedings in tribunals of justice; with legal authority.