JESTING
JEST'ING, participle present tense Joking; talking for diversion or merriment.JEST'ING, noun A joking; concise wit; wit that consists in a trope or verbal figure, in a metaphori...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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JESTING-STOCK
JEST'ING-STOCK, noun A laughing stock; a butt of ridicule.
JESTINGLY
JEST'INGLY, adverb In a jocose manner; not in earnest.
JESUIT
JES'UIT, noun s as z. One of the society of Jesus, so called, founded by Ignatius Loyola; a society remarkable for their cunning in propagating their principles.
JESUITED
JES'UITED, adjective Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits.
JESUITESS
JES'UITESS, noun A female Jesuit in principle.
JESUITIC
JESUIT'ICJESUIT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles and arts.1. Designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating.
JESUITICALLY
JESUIT'ICALLY, adverb Craftily.
JESUITISM
JES'UITISM, noun The arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits.1. Cunning, deceit; hypocrisy; prevarication; deceptive practices to effect a purpose.JES'UITS'-BARK, noun Per...
JET
JET, noun [Latin gagates.] A solid, dry, black, inflammable fossil substance, harder than asphalt, susceptible of a good polish, and glossy in its fracture, which is conchoidal ...
JETSAM
JET'SAMJET'SONJETTEAU, noun jet'to. A throw or spout of water.
JETSON
JET'SON
JETTEAU
JETTEAU, n. jet'to. A throw or spout of water.
JETTEE
JET'TEE, noun A projection in a building.
JETTISON
JET'TISON, noun In law and commerce, properly, the throwing of goods overboard in order to lighten a ship in a tempest for her preservation. The word may however be used for the...
JETTY
JET'TY, verb intransitive To jut.JET'TY, noun A small pier or projection into a river for narrowing it and raising the water above that place.JET'TY, adjective Made of jet, or b...
JETTYHEAD
JET'TYHEAD, noun The projecting part of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.
JEW
JEW, noun [a contraction of Judas of Judah.] A Hebrew or Israelite.
JEWEL
JEW'EL, noun [Low Latin jocale.]1. An ornament worn by ladies, usually consisting of a precious stone, or set with one or more; a pendant worn in the ear.2. A precious stone.3. ...
JEWEL-HOUSE
JEW'EL-HOUSEJEW'EL-LIKE, adjective Brilliant as a jewel.
JEWEL-OFFICE
JEW'EL-OFFICE, noun The place where the royal ornaments are reposited.
JEWELED
JEW'ELED, participle passive Adorned with jewels.
JEWELER
JEW'ELER, noun One who makes or deals in jewels and other ornaments.
JEWELING
JEW'ELING, participle present tense Adorning with jewels.
JEWELRY
JEW'ELRY, noun Jewels in general.
JEWESS
JEW'ESS, noun A Hebrew woman. Acts 24:24.
JEWISH
JEW'ISH, adjective Pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews. Titus 1:14.