=Syn. 
II. ( 
jee 
Click ! the string the sneck did draw : 
And, jee ! the door gaed tae the wa'. 
Burm, The Vision, i. 
jeelj n. See jhil. 
jeeliCO (je'li-ko), n. [A corruption of angelica.] 
Same asjetlico, 1. [Prov. Eng.] 
jeer 1 (jer), v. [Early mod. E. also jear, geare; 
prob. < MD. seheeren, schercn, jest, jeer, trifle, 
a use of the verb due to phrases like den sot 
seheeren or seheeren den sot, play the fool, den 
gheck seheeren, also den gheck spelen, play the 
i'ool (cf. gheckscherer, a fool); gekscheercn, now 
spelled gekseheren, LG. gekkschcren (with equiv. 
D. and LG. scheren, jeer, banter, plague, tease), 
lit. ' shear the fool ' (cf . G. den geek stechen, ban- 
ter, tease, lit. 'pierce the fool. 'i.e. his skull): D. 
gek, MD. gheck = G. geek, > E. geek, a fool (see 
geek); MD. sot = E. sot, orig. a fool (see sot); 
D. scheren, MD. seheeren, scheren = G. sclieren 
= E. shear. For shearing as a mark of con- 
tempt or disgrace, cf. shaveling, and AS. homo- 
la, a shaveling (under hamble, q. v.). For the 
change of sh to j, cf . jellron for sheltron ; it may 
be due in part, perhaps, to association -with jest*, 
jibe 1 , joke, etc.] I. intrans. To make a mock 
of some person or thing ; scoff : as, to jeer at 
one in sport. 
He saw her toy and gibe and geare. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 21. 
Yea, dost thou jeer, and flout me in the teeth? 
Shalr.,C. of E., ii. 2,22. 
And by and by the people, when they met, . . . 
Began to scoff and jeer and babble of him, 
As of a prince whose manhood was all gone. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
, Qibe, Scoff, etc. See sneer, 
trans. To treat with scoffs or derision; 
make a mock of ; deride ; flout. 
jeer 1 (jer), n. [<.jeerl,v.] 1 . A scoff ; a taunt ; 
a flout; a gibe; a mock. 
But the dean, if this secret should come to his ears, 
Will never have done with his gibes and his jeers. 
Swi/t, The Grand Question Debated. 
2f. A huff ; a pet. 
For he, being tribune, left in a jear the exercise of his 
office, and went into Syria to Pompey upon no occasion ; 
and as fondly again he returned thence upon a sudden. 
Horth, tr. of Plutarch, p. 721. 
jeer 2 (jer), n. [Also jear; origin obscure.] 
Naut., tackle for hoisting or lowering the lower 
yards of a man-of-war : usually in the plural, 
jeerer (jer'er), M. One who jeers ; a scoffer; a 
railer; a scorner; a mocker. 
Tho. He is ujeerer too. 
P. JVM. What's that 7 
Fash. A wit. B. Jonson, Staple of News, i. 1. 
Jeff 1 (jef), v. i. [Origin obscure.] Among print- 
ers, to play a game of chance by throwing quad- 
rats from the hand in the manner of dice, 
count being kept by the number of nicked sides 
turned up. 
Jeff 2 (jef), n. In circus slang, a rope: usually 
with a qualifying word : as, tight Jeff; slack jeff. 
Dickens, Hard Times, vi. 
jefferisite (jef'er-is-lt), re. [After W. W. Jef- 
feris, of West Chester, Penn.] A kind of ver- 
miculite from West Chester, Pennsylvania. 
Jeffersonia (jef-er-so'ni-ii), n. [NL. (Bartling, 
1821), named in honor of Thomas Jefferson.] A 
genus of Berberidacea;, containing two species of 
herbaceous plants, one American and one Chi- 
nese. These plants have a perennial rhizome, bearing 
leaves with long stalks and singular, two-divided blades, 
the solitary dowers borne upon naked scapes. The flower 
has 4 petal-like sepals, which fall as the bud opens, 8 
petals, and 8 stamens. The one-celled and many-seeded 
capsule opens near the top as if by a lid. J. diphylla, 
called twinleqf, is an interesting plant, wild in the east- 
ern interior of the United States, its white blossoms, an 
inch wide, appearing in April or May. From reputed 
stimulating properties, the plant is sometimes named 
rheumatism-root. It is also thought to possess tonic and 
emetic properties. 
Jeffersonian (jef-er-so'ni-an). a. and n. [< Jef- 
ferson (see def.) + -ian. "The surname Jeffer- 
son occurs also as Jeffrison, Jeffreson, Jeaffreson, 
early mod. E. Jeffreyson, Geffreyson, etc., i. e. 
Jeffrey's son, Jeffrey, also Geoffrey, Geoffroy, 
being orig. the same as Godfrey, G. Gottfried, 
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advocated by Thomas Jefferson, based upon the 
greatest possible individual and local freedom, 
and corresponding restriction of the powers of 
national government. 
Ultimately, Jeffersonianism must have prevailed, but at 
the time of its actual triumph it came too soon. 
N. A. Hen., CXXIII. 137. 
jeffersonite (jef'er-spn-it), n. [After Thomas 
Jefferson, the third President of the United 
States.] A variety of pyroxene occurring in 
large crystals, often with uneven faces and 
rounded edges, and having a dark olive-green 
color passing into brown. It is peculiar in contain- 
ing some zinc and manganese. It occurs, with franklin- 
ite, zincite, etc., at Franklin Furnace, Sussex county, New 
Jersey. 
jeg (jeg), n. [Origin obscure.] One of the tem- 
plets or gages used for verifying shapes of parts 
in gun- and gunstock-making. E. H. Kniyh t. 
jeggett (jeg'et), n. [Appar. a var. ofjigot, gig- 
OT.J A kind of sausage. Ash, 
Jehoiada-box (je-hoi'a-da-boks), n. [So called 
in allusion to the box'or "chest" within which 
Jehoiada, at the command of Joash, King of 
Judah, made collections for the repair of the 
temple at Jerusalem (2 Chron. xxiv. 6-11).] 
A box, usually of iron, entirely closed with the 
exception of a slit in the top, intended to be 
used as a savings-bank. 
How all the Jehoiada-boxes in town were forced to give 
up their rattling deposits of specie, If not through the 
legitimate orifice, then to the brute force of the hammer. 
Lowell, Cambridge Thirty Years Ago. 
Jehovah (je-ho'va), n. [The common European 
spelling (with j = y and v = w) of Yehowah or 
Yahowah, the Masspretic form of the Hebrew 
name previously written without vowels JHVH 
(YHWH), the vowels of Adonai (which see) 
being substituted by the later Jews for those 
of the original name, which came to be re- 
garded as too sacred for utterance. The ori- 
ginal name, according to the view now gener- 
ally accepted, was Yahweh, or rather Yaliwe, 
the name appearing also contracted Yah, sep- 
arately (see halleluiah), or, as Yah (Jdh: see 
Jah), Yd, Yeho, Yahu, in compound proper 
names (as, in E. forms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc., 
Joshua, Jeshua, Jesus, Jehoshua: see Jesus'), 
transliterated in late Greek variously 'lajii, 
'iavi, 'laovf. The origin and meaning of the 
name are unknown. It was formerly referred 
to the Hebrew root haiedh, be, exist, and was 
taken to imply self -existence, 'he that is' ('I 
am that I am,' Ex. iii. 14; more correctly 'I 
shall be what I shall be'), or else eternity. 
Some modern scholars would translate the 
name as 'he who causes to be,' i. e. the Cre- 
ator, while others connect it with an Aramaic 
sense 'fall,' as if 'he who causes (rain or light- 
ning) to fall,' this explanation being parallel- 
ed by similar terms associated with the Greek 
Zeus. Others, in view of the fact that a met- 
aphysical notion like 'self-existence' does not 
elsewhere appear in the names of the deities 
of primitive peoples, regard the Hebrew deri- 
vation as a piece of popular etymology (some- 
what like that which in English associates 
the name God with good), and seek to iden- 
tify Yaliwe with some Assyrian or other foreign 
deity.] 1. In the Old Testament, one of the 
names of God as the deity of the Hebrews: 
in the English version usually translated, or 
rather represented, by ' ' the LORD." See ety- 
mology. The Jews, since an early date, have avoided 
the pronunciation of this name of God, and wherever it 
occurs in the sacred books have substituted the word 
Adonai, or, where it comes in conjunction with Adonai, 
have substituted Elohim. 
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto 
Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name 
JEHOVAH was I not known to them. Ex. vi. 3. 
Father of all ! in every age, 
In every clime adored, 
By saint, by savage, or by sage, 
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! 
Pope, Universal Prayer. 
- O "*g ""v .Jtmi^J two v*^Lr//c-, \jt . WVW'WIM f\ T 3 *-Il " J_ n 3 
MHG. Gotfrit, Gotevrit, lit,'' God-peace': see 2 In modern Christian use God. 
God and frithl.] I. a. Of or pertaining to """=* "*'-- ~ " T*T.~,* 
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United 
States (1801-9), and the first great leader of the 
Democratic (first called Anti-Federal and later 
Democratic-Republican) party; also, adopting 
the political theories held by or attributed to 
Jefferson. 
II. n. In U. S. politics, a supporter or an ad- 
mirer of Thomas Jefferson ; one who professes 
Jehovist (je-ho'vist), n. [< Jehovah + -ist.] 1. 
The supposed author of certain passages of 
the Pentateuch in which God is always spoken 
of as Jehovah. Also Jahvist. See Elohist. 2. 
One who maintains that the vowel-points an- 
nexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew are the 
proper vowels of the word, and express the 
true pronunciation . The Jchovists are opposed to the 
Adomsts, who hold that the points annexed to the word 
Jehovah are the vowels of Adonai or of Elohim. See 
Adonist, Jehovah. 
, ... L , Jehovistic (je-ho-vis'tik), a. [< Jehooist + -ic.] 
Jejjersoman + -ism.] The political doctrines Characterized by the exclusive use of the name 
to accept his political doctrines ; a Democrat. 
Jeffersonianism (jef-er-so'ni-an-izm), n. [< 
jellify 
Jehovah for God : applied to certain passages 
of the Pentateuch, or to the writer or writers 
of these passages. Also Jahvistic. See Elo- 
histic. 
Jehu (je'hu), n. [In allusion to 2 Ki. ix. 20: 
" The driving is like the driving of Jehu, the 
sou of Nimshi ; for he driveth furiously."] 1 . A 
fastdriver; a person fond of driving. [Colloq.] 
A pious man . . . may call a keen foxhunter aNimrod, 
. . . and Cowper's friend, Newton, would speak of a neigh- 
bour who was given to driving as Jehu. 
Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Reformation. 
2. A driver; a coachman. [Colloq.] 
At first it was not without fear that she intrusted herself 
to so inexperienced a coachman ; "but she soon . . . raised 
my wages, and considered me an excellent Jehu." 
Lady Holland, Sydney Smith, vi. 
jehup (je'up), v. t. A variant form of gee up. 
See gee' 2 . 
May I lose my Otho, or be tumbled from my phaeton 
the first time I jehup my sorrels, if I have not made more 
haste than a young surgeon in his first labour. 
Foote, Taste, ii. 
jeistiecor (jes'ti-kdr), n. A corruption otjuste- 
au-corps. Compare justico. [Scotch and North. 
Eng.] 
It's a sight for sair een, to see a gold-laced jeistiecor in 
the Ha' garden sae late at e'en. . . . Ou, a jeistiecor that's 
a jacket like your ain. Scott, Rob Roy, vi. 
jejunal (je-jo'nal), a. [< jejunum + -al] Of 
or pertaining to the jejunum: as, a. jejunal in- 
tussusception. 
jejune (je-jon'), a. [< li.jejunus, fasting, hun- 
gry, barren, empty, dry, feeble, poor : see dine.] 
If. Scantily supplied or furnished ; attenuated; 
poor. 
In gross and turbid streams there might be contained 
nutriment, and not in jejune or limpid water. 
Sir T. Brotcnc. 
2. Barren; unfurnished; wanting pith or in- 
terest, as a literary production ; devoid of sense 
or knowledge, as a person; dry; uninteresting; 
shallow. 
I now and then get a baite at philosophy, but it is so 
little and jejune as I despair of satisfaction 'till I am 
againe restor'd to the Society. 
Evelyn, To the Dean of Rippon. 
Farce itself, most mournfully jejune, 
Calls for the kind assistance of a tune. 
Cowper, Retirement, 1. 711. 
jejunely (je-jon'li), adv. In a jejune, empty, 
dry, or barren manner. 
jejuneness (je-jon'nes), n. If. Attenuation; 
fineness; thinness. 
There are three causes of fixation : the even spreading 
both of the spirits and tangible parts ; the closeness of the 
tangible parts ; and the jejuneness or extream comminu- 
tion of spirits. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 799. 
2. Barrenness; emptiness ; deficiency of inter- 
est, importance, or knowledge; want of sub- 
stantial or attractive qualities : as, jejuneness 
of style in a book. 
jejunity (je-jo'ni-ti), n. [< L. jejunita(t-)s, 
< jcjunus: see jejune.] Jejuneness; meager- 
ness; brevity. [Rare.] 
Pray extend your Spartan jejunity to the length of a 
competent letter. Bentley, Letters, p. 261. 
jejunum (je-jo'num), n. ; pi. jejuna (-na). [NL., 
neut. of i.jejunus, dry: see jejune,] In anat., 
the second division of the small intestine, of un- 
certain extent, intervening between the duode- 
num and the ileum; more fully, the intestiiium 
jejunum: so named because it was supposed to 
be empty after death. See intestine. 
Jekyll S Act. Same as Gin Act (which see, 
under gin 5 ). 
jelerang (jel'e-rang), n. [Native name.] A 
species of squirrel, Sciuriis javaneitsis, found in 
Java, India, and Cochin-China. It is variable 
in color, but commonly is dark-brown above 
and golden-yellow below. 
jell (jel), v. i. [< jell-yl.] To assume the con- 
sistence of jelly. [Colloq.] 
The jelly won't jell and I don't know what to do ! 
L. M. Alcott, Little Women, ii. 5. 
jelletite (jel'e-tit), n. [After M. Jellet, who de- 
scribed it.] A variety of lime-iron garnet, of a 
green color, found near Zermatt, Switzerland. 
jellico (jel'i-ko), n. [A corruption of angelica.] 
1. The plant Angelica sylvestris. A.\so jeelico. 
2. A plant of St. Helena, Sium Hele/iiiim, 
whose stems are used uncooked for food. 
jellied (jel' id), o. [<jcUi/i + -ed?.] 1 . Brought 
to the consistence of jelly. 2. Having the 
sweetness of jelly. 
The kiss that sips 
The jellied philtre of her lips. Cleaveland. 
jellify (jel'i-fi), .; pret. and pp. jellified, ppr. 
jellifying. [< jelly 1 + -/)/.] I. trans. To make 
into a jelly; reduce to a gelatinous state. 
