Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: JU-DI'CIAL-LY – JUICE'LESS
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JU-DI'CIAL-LY, adv.
- In the forms of legal justice; as, sentence judicially declared.
- By way of penalty or judgment; as, to be judicially punished.
JU-DI'CIA-RY, a. [Fr. judiciaire; L. judiciarius.]
- Passing judgment or sentence. – Boyle.
- 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.]
- 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.
- 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.
- A trick by legerdemain.
- 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.]
- To play tricks by slight of hand; to amuse and make sport by tricks, which make a false show of extraordinary powers.
- 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.]
- 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.
- 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.