Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.