Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: JEW'EL – JI-BOY'A
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JEW'EL, v.t.
To dress or adorn with jewels. – B. Jonson.
JEW'EL-ED, pp.
Adorned with jewels.
JEW'EL-ER, n.
One who makes or deals in jewels and other ornaments.
JEW'EL-HOUSE, or JEW'EL-OF-FICE, n.
The place where the royal ornaments are reposited. – Shak.
JEW'EL-ING, ppr.
Adorning with jewels.
JEW'EL-LIKE, a.
Brilliant as a jewel. – Shak.
JEW'EL-RY, n.
Jewels in general.
JEW'ESS, n.
A Hebrew woman. – Acts xxiv.
JEW'ISH, a.
Pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews. – Tit. i.
JEW'ISH-LY, adv.
In the manner of the Jews. – Donne.
JEW'ISH-NESS, n.
The rites of the Jews. – Martin.
JEW'RY, n.
Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews, whence the name of a street in London. – Chaucer.
JEWS-EAR', a.
The popular name of a species of Fungus, the Peziza auricula, bearing some resemblance to the human ear. – Johnson. Lee.
A plant, a species of Styrax.
JEWS'-HARP, n. [Jew and harp.]
An instrument of music shaped like a harp, which, placed between the teeth and by means of a spring struck by the finger, gives a sound which is modulated by the breath into soft melody. It is called also Jews-trump.
JEWS-MAL'LOW, n.
A plant, a species of Corchorus.
JEWS'-PITCH, n.
Asphaltum, – which see.
JEWS'-STONE, n.
The clavated spine of a very large egg-shaped sea urchin petrified. It is a regular figure, oblong and rounded, about three quarters of an inch in length, and half an inch in diameter. Its color is a pale dusky gray, with a tinge of dusky red. – Hill.
JEZ'E-BEL, n.
An impudent, daring, vicious woman. – Spectator.
JIB, n.
The foremost sail of a ship, being a large stay-sail extended from the outer end of the jib-boom toward the fore-topmast-head. In sloops, it is on the bowsprit, and extends toward the lower mast-head. – Mar. Dict.
JIB'-BOOM, n.
A spar which is run out from the extremity of the bowsprit, and which serves as a continuation of it. Beyond this is sometimes extended the flying-jib-boom.
JIBE, v.t.
To shift a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.
JIB'ED, pp.
Shifted from one side to the other, as a boom-sail.
JIB'ING, ppr.
Shifting from one side to the other, as a boom-sail.
JI-BOY'A, n.
An American serpent of the largest kind.