Joe-Millerism 
ing, or retailing jests; especially, the repeti- 
tion of stale or flat jokes; also,an olil ji-st. [Col- 
loq.J 
Joe-Millerize (jo'mil'er-iz), v. t. [< ./>< Mill,-r 
+ -izc.} To give a jesting or jocular charac- 
ter to; mingle with jokes or jests, especially 
stale jests. [Colloq.] 
If a man cuts all the dates, tosses In his facts anyhow, 
anil Is too busy to distinguish one important man from 
another, and yet is funny, and succeeds in Joe-Millertiiny 
history, he pleases somebody or other. 
Saturday Rev., Nov. 10, 1866. 
joepye-weed (jo-pi' wed), . An American plant, 
KujMitiirium purnureum, a tall weed with co- 
rymbs of purple flowers, common in low ground. 
Also called truiiipi'linnl. See Eupatorium. 
joewood (jo' wud), n. A tree, Jacquinia annil- 
larix, found in the West Indies, Florida, and 
elsewhere. Its leaves are saponaceous. See 
luciliiinia. 
joey (jo'i), . [Dim. of Joe, a familiar abbr. of 
Joseph. See joe 1 .} 1. In coal-mining, a man 
specially appointed to set the timber in a stall 
or working while coal is being raised. [Midland 
counties, Eng.] 2. Same as Joe 1 , 1. [Slang, 
Eng.] 
They [the patterers] have an idea . . . that this noble- 
man (Sir James Graham] invented fourpenny-pleces, and 
now, they sity, the swells give a joey where they used to 
give a "tanner." 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 267. 
jog (jog), .; pret. and pp. jogged, ppr. jogging. 
[< ME. joggen, also juggen (also jaggen); < W. 
gogi, shake, agitate. Cf. W. gogis, a gentle slap, 
Ir. gogaim, I nod, gesticulate, Gael, gog, a nod- 
ding. The related W. ysgogi, wag, stir, shake, 
suggests an ult. connection with E. shog, shock, 
and shake. Cf. jock, jolt, and jag 1 .} I. trans. 
It. To pierce; thrust. See jag 1 . 
Thorowe a Jerownde schelde hcjogges hym thorowe. 
Marie Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2892. 
2. To touch, push, or shake slightly or gently ; 
nudge ; move by pushing. 
Snatch from Time 
Ills glass, and let the golden sands run forth 
As til. in shall jog them. 
Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, ii. 1. 
Jogging . . . her elbow, he whispered something arch 
In her ear. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, cxxlii. 
Jupiter, I think, has jogged us three degrees nearer to 
the sun. Walpole, Letters, II. 183, 
Hence 3. To stimulate gently; stir up by a 
hint or reminder : as, to jog a person's memory. 
U. intrans. To move by jogs or small shocks, 
like those of a slow trot ; move idly, heavily, or 
slowly: generally followed by on or along. 
He Jugged til a lustice. Piers Plowman (B), xx. 133. 
One Foot a little dangling off, jogging In a thoughtful 
Way. Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 1. 
Thus they >oj on, still tricking, never thriving. Dryden. 
The good old ways our sires jogged safely o'er. 
Browning, Paracelsus, Iv. 
To be jogging, to go away ; move on : as, It is time for 
me to be jogging. 
The door is open, sir ; there lies your way ; 
You may be jagging whiles vour boots are green ; 
For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself. 
Shale., T. of the S., ill. 2, 213. 
jog (jog), n. [< jog, .] I. A slight push or 
shake ; a nudge ; especially, a shake or push in- 
tended to give notice or awaken attention. 
I have none to guide me 
With the least jog ; the lookers-on deride me. 
Quarles, Emblems, iv. 4. 
All men believe ho resides there Incog, 
To give them by turns an invisible ^0*7. 
Sw\ft, On the Irish Bishops. 
2. Irregularity of motion ; a jolting motion ; a 
jolt or shake. 
How that which penetrates all bodies without the least 
joy or obstruction should Impress a motion on any is ... 
Inconceivable. Olanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, ill. 
A carriage with a pair of gray horses was coming along 
with the familiar joy of a hack carriage which Is paid for 
at so much an hour. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xlviii. 
3. In mech., a square notch; a right-angled re- 
cess or step. See cut under joint (fig. 6). 
Higher up it (the thickness of a wall) Is less, diminish- 
ing every story by retreating jogs on the inside. 
L. U. Morgan, Amer. Ethnol., p. 157. 
4. Any notch or recess in a line; a small de- 
pression in a surface ; an irregularity of line or 
surface. [U. S.] 
jogelt, jogelert. Middle English forms ofjog- 
jogeiryet, . A Middle Euglisl 
jogger (jog' er), . [< jog + -er 1 .} 1. Onewfio 
jogs, or moves heavily and slowly. 
They with their fellow joggers of the plough. Drydeti. 
3237 
2. One who or that which gives a jog or sudden 
push. 
A receiving-table for cylinder printing presses, designed 
to facilitate the accurate piling of the sheet* without the 
use of the ordinary form of jogger. 
Si&Ama:, N. 8., LVIII. 340. 
jogging-cart (jog'ing-kiirt), . A recent Amer- 
ican pattern of village-cart. The Hub, July 1, 
1HH7. 
joggle (jog'l), .; pret. and ^.Joggled, ppr.jog- 
i/l/iii/. | Kreq. of jog, q. v. The second sense 
depends rather upon joggle, n., as a dim. of jog, 
n.,3.} I. trans. 1. To shake slightly; give a 
sudden but slight push ; jolt; jostle. 
We grant that the earth Is firm and stable from all such 
motions whereby it is joggled or uncertainly shaken. 
Up. Wilkiuf, That the Earth may be a Planet. 
A foolish desire to joggle thee Into preferment 
Beau, and /'(. The Captain, v. 4. 
2. In carp, and masonry, to fit together, as tim- 
bers or stonework, with notches and projec- 
tions, or with notches and keys, to prevent the 
slipping of parts upon one another. 
II. intrans. To move irregularly ; have a jog- 
ging or jolting motion ; shake. 
"My dear, Is that a proper way to speak?" said Miss Me- 
hltable, reprovingly ; but Tina saw my grandmother's broad 
shoulders j(*/riin*/ with a secret laugh. 
//. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 230. 
joggle (jog'l), n. [Dim. of jog, n. Ct . joggle, r.] 
1. A jolt; a jog. 
And then the carlln, she grippit wi' me like grim death, 
at every joggle the coach gied. 
Gait, Sir Andrew Wylle, II. 6. 
2. In carp., a stub-tenon on the end of a post 
or piece of timber, which prevents the timber or 
post from moving laterally. Also joggle-joint. 
3. In carp, and masonry, a notch in a piece 
of timber or stone, into which is fitted a pro- 
jection upon a corresponding piece or counter- 
part, or a key also engaging a notch in a cor- 
responding piece or counterpart, to prevent one 
piece from slipping on the other. 
joggle-beam (jog'1-bem), n. A built beam the 
parts of which are joined by projections on one 
part fitted into notches cut in the other part or 
parts, or by keys fitting notches in the meeting 
surfaces of the parts, to prevent slipping of the 
parts upon one another. 
.joggle-joint (jog'l-joint), n. Sameasjofffffe, 2. 
joggle-piece (jog'1-pes), n. In building, same 
as King-post. 
joggle-post (jog'1-post), n. 1. In building, a 
post having shoulders or notches for receiving 
the lower ends or feet of struts. See king-post. 
2. A post built of two or more pieces of tim- 
ber joggled together. 
joggle-truss (jog'1-trus), n. In building, a truss 
with a single post placed centrally and fitted 
to the chord by a stub-tenon or its equivalent, 
the chord being at the top, and the post hang- 
ing downward and having its lower end con- 
nected with the ends of the chord by oblique 
braces. 
joggle work (jog'1-werk), n. In masonry, con- 
struction in which stones are internotcned or 
keyed (joggled) together. 
joggling-table (jog'ling-ta'blt, n. In metal., a 
machine for dressing or concentrating ore. It 
consists of an inclined table on which the ore Is placed 
and over which water is allowed to flow. The separation 
of the heavier ore from the lighter rock or veinstone is 
assisted by a succession of blows struck on the edge of 
the table by machinery contrived for this purpose, thus 
causing the table to vibrate sufficiently for the particles 
to arrange themselves in the order of their specific gravi- 
ty. In the form of joggling-table known as " Rittinger's 
side-blow percussion table, the table is pushed violently 
from its position at rest by a cam acting upon the end of 
a rod, and when the cam has released the end of the rod 
the table is pushed back by a strong spring. 
joglart, " [Pr- : see juggler':'} A Provencal 
minstrel or jongleur. See joculator. 
Now in the palmy days of Provencal song there were 
many professional joglars, such as Arnaut Daniel or Per- 
digo, who stood high among the most brilliant trouba- 
dours, and visited on terms of social equality with nobles 
and princes. Eneye. Brit., XVI. 479. 
jog-trot (jog' trot ), n. and a. I. n. 1. A slow, 
easy jogging motion on horseback. 2. A slow 
routine mode of performing daily duty to which 
one pertinaciously adheres. 
As we grow old, a sort of equable jog-trot of feeling is 
substituted for the violent ups and downs of passion and 
disgust R. L. Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth. 
II. a. 1. Monotonous; easy-going; humdrum. 
All honest jog-trot men, who go on smoothly and dully 
and write history and politics, and are praised. 
Goldsmith, Vicar, . 
2. Adapted for an easy, jogging pace. [Eare. ] 
Johnanapes 
These roads are old-fashioned, homely roads, very dirty 
and badly mule, and hiinlly (-mluralik' in w i tit IT. )>ut .still 
plrasaiit//-rrut roads, running tlii>>ugh tin- un-at ]> 
land*. T. Uughes, Tom Brown at Kugtty, I. 1. 
johan (jo'an), n. [< ML. Johannes, John: see 
./' ih n.} St.-John's-wort. See Hypericum. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
Johannean (jo-han'e-an), a. [< ML. Johannes, 
LL. Joannes, John (see John), + -an.} Of or 
pertaining to the apostle John, or to the gos- 
pel written by him. Also Johannine. 
There Is a marked difference between the contents and 
style of the Synoptic and the Johannean discourses of 
Jesus. Schaf, Illst. Christ Church, 1. 1 83. 
The Johannean conception of the gospel, preeminent for 
ethical depth and force. Progressive Orthodoxy, p. 206. 
Johannes. Joannes (jo-han'ez, jo-an'ez), . 
[ML. and NL. form of LL. Joannes C> Pg. JoSo): 
see John.} A gold 
coin (called in Por- 
tuguese JoSo) for- 
merlycurrent in Por- 
tugal, worth about 
$9 : probably BO 
called from having 
been first issued by 
one of the Portu- 
guese kings named 
John. 
He got of me some- 
times a double Joannes, 
sometimes a Spanish 
doublon, and never leas. 
FranUin, Letters (The 
[Century, XXXII. 272). 
Johannine (jd-han'- 
in), a. [< ML. Jo- 
hannes, LL. Joannes, 
John (see John), + 
-tne 1 .] Same as Jo- 
hannean. 
Johannisberger (jo- 
han 'is-ber-ger), n. 
[G., < Johannisberg, 
lit. John's mountain : 
Johannis (gen. Of Jo- Johannes of 'John V., King of Por. 
hanncs), John: berg tugai.mj. British Museum. (Size 
T^ i t i_ .if of the (>ri}nn<il. ) 
= E. Sorrow? 1 , hill, 
mountain: see barrow 1 , berg 1 .} A white wine 
grown in the Rheingau near the Rhine. The 
best is produced in the vineyard belonging to Prince 
Metternich, and is known as Schloss Johannisberger, from 
the name of the castle ; this Is considered one of the fin- 
est of wines. The wine of the neighboring slopes (called 
Dorf Johannisberger) is also sold as Johannisberger. 
johannite (jo-han'it), n. [< ML. Johannes, 
John, + -ite$.} 1. [cap.} One of the Order of 
the Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusalem. See 
hospitaler. 2. A mineral of an emerald-green 
or apple-green color, a hydrous sulphate of the 
protoxid of uranium. 
John (jon), n. [The 7t is in E. a mere inser- 
tion, in imitation of the ML. form; prop. Jon 
(as in Jonson, etc.: cf. Janson, Jenkins, etc.), 
< ME. Jon, also Jan, < OF. Jan, Jean, Jehan, 
Johan, etc., mod. F. Jean = Sp. Juan = Pg. 
JoSo = It. Giovanni, Gianni (> E. sany, q. v.), 
Gian = AS. lohannes = D. Jan, Hans =. G. 
Johann, Hans = Dan. Sw. Johan, Hans, etc., 
= W. Efan (> E. Evan, Evans, Ivins, etc.) = 
Russ. Ivan, etc. (in all European languages); 
< ML. Johannes, Joannrs, LL. Joannes, < Gr. 
'ludwr/f (with accom. Gr. termination), < Heb. 
Yohdndn, John, lit. 'Jehovah hath been gra- 
cious.' This name owes its wide currency 
primarily to the impression which the char- 
acter of John the Baptist made upon the pop- 
ular imagination in the middle ages; Bap- 
tist alone is also a common name in southern 
Europe. Owing to the extreme frequency of 
John as a given name, it came to be used, like 
its accepted E. synonym Jack, as a common 
appellative for a man or bov of common or 
menial condition, and, in its different national 
forms, E. John, F. Jean, D. and G. Hans, etc., 
has served as a popular collective name for the 
whole people.] A common name for a man 
or boy, often used, like Jack, its synonym, to 
designate a man or a boy in general or indefi- 
nitely, especially an awkward fellow. cheap 
John. See cheap. 
John-a-dreamst, n. [That is, John o' dreams, 
for John of dreams.} A dreamy, idle fellow. 
Yet I. 
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, 
Like John-a-dreamg. unpregnant of my cause, 
And can say nothing. Shot., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
Johnanapest (jon'a-naps), . Same as jack- 
anapes. 
