Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JEER'ER, n.

A scoffer; a railer; a scorner; a mocker.

JEER'ING, n.

Derision.

JEER'ING, ppr.

Scoffing; mocking; deriding.

JEER'ING-LY, adv.

With raillery; scornfully; contemptuously; in mockery. – Derham.

JEF'FER-SON-ITE, n.

A mineral occurring in crystaline masses, of a dark olive green color passing into brown, found imbedded in Franklinite and garnet, in New Jersey. – Phillips.

JEG'GET, n.

A kind of sausage. [Not in use.] – Ainsworth.

JE-HO'VAH, n.

The Scripture name of the Supreme Being, Heb. יהוה. If, as is supposed, this name is from the Hebrew substantive verb, the word denotes the Permanent Being, as the primary sense of the substantive verb in all languages, is to be fixed, to stand, to remain or abide. This is a name peculiarly appropriate to the eternal Spirit, the unchangeable God, who describes himself thus, I am that I am. – Ex. iii.

JE-HO'VIST, n.

Among critics, one who maintains that the vowel-points annexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of the word and express the true pronunciation. The Jehovists are opposed to the Adonists, who hold that the points annexed to the word Jehovah, are the vowels of the word Adonai. – Encyc.

JE-JUNE', a. [L. jejunus, empty, dry.]

1. Wanting; empty; vacant. – Bacon.
2. Hungry; not saturated.
3. Dry barren; wanting interesting matter; as, a jejune narrative.

JE-JUNE'LY, adv.

In a jejune, empty, barren manner. – Baxter.

JE-JUNE'NESS, n.

Poverty; barrenness; particularly, want of interesting matter; a deficiency of matter that can engage the attention and gratify the mind; as, the jejuneness of style or narrative. [Jejunity is not used.]

JEL'LI-ED, a. [See Jelly and Gelly.]

Brought to the consistence of jelly.

JEL'LY, n. [Sp. jalea, from L. gelo, to congeal. See Gelly.]

1. The inspissated juice of fruit, boiled with sugar.
2. Something viscous or glutinous; something of the consistency of jelly; a transparent sizy substance, obtained from animal substances by decoction; portable soup.

JEL'LY-BAG, n.

A bag through which jelly is distilled.

JEN'ITE, n.

A different orthography of Yenite, – which see.

JEN'NET, n.

A small Spanish horse, properly Genet.

JEN'NET-ING, n. [said to be corrupted from juneting, an apple ripe in June, or at St. Jean.]

A species of early apple. Mortimer.

JEN'NY, n.

A machine for spinning, moved by water or steam and used in manufactories.

JENT'LING, n.

A fish, the blue chub, found in the Danube.

JEOF'AIL, n. [jef'fail; Fr. j'ai failli, I have failed.]

An oversight in pleading or other proceeding at law; or the acknowledgment of a mistake. – Blackstone.

JEOP'ARD, v.t. [jep'ard. See Jeopardy.]

To hazard; to put in danger; to expose to loss or injury. Zebulon and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives to the death in the high places of the field. – Judges x.

JEOP'ARD-ED, pp. [jep'arded.]

Put in danger.

JEOP'ARD-ER, n. [jep'arder.]

One who puts to hazard.

JEOP'ARD-ING, ppr. [jep'arding.]

Hazarding; putting in danger.

JEOP'ARD-IZE, v.t. [jep'ardize.]

To expose to loss or injury; to jeopard. [This is a modern word, used by respectable writers in America, but synonymous with jeopard, and therefore useless.]