Joseph 
In the dear fashions of her youth she dress'd ; 
A pea green Joteph was her favourite vest. 
Crabbe, Parish Register. 
Joseph-and-Mary (jo'zef-and-ma'ri), n. [So 
called in ref. to the red and blue flowers which 
the plant produces at the same time, and which 
suggested the common pictures of the Holy Fam- 
ily, with Joseph in red and Mary in blue.] The 
lungwort, Pulmonaria officinalis. [Prov. Eng.] 
Josephine knot. See knot*. 
Joseph's-coat (jo'zefs-kof), A cultivated 
variety of Amarantus tricolor, with variegated 
leaves. 
Joseph' S-flower (jo'zefs-flou"er), n. The yellow 
-nn f 'c. _Vao r*f\ fV/J/V/ir* /}//!. rtTn.t.f.n.SiS. 
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iota, 1.] An iota; a point; a 
quantity assignable. 
So weake my powres, so sore my wounds appeare, 
That wonder is how I should live &jot, 
Spenser, Sonnets, mi. 
journal 
tittle; the least joule (joul), . [Named after J. P. Joule (born 
1818), an English physicist.] An electrical unit 
proposed by Siemens. It is the work done in one sec- 
ond when the rate of working is one watt : in other words, 
that done in onesecond in maintaining a current of one am- 
f.. Hl.l. <UV* jJ^Jf J\svw\*, y^/l . jwvr.iy. 
' [< jofl, n.-] To set down quickly and with few op e 
strokes in writing or sketching; make a brief T ou i e ' s equivalent. Same as mechanical equiv- 
note or memorandum of: usually with down. alen( o fft eat ( wn ich see, under equivalent). 
It would not be altogether becoming of me to speak of J otmce (iouns), V. t. and i. ; pret. and pp. jounced, 
J^ssi^si^ 
~ vost, p. 254. shake, especially by rough riding. [Golloq.J 
Gait, The Provo 
Plump ; down- 
'] 
An obsolete form of jot 1 . 
[Cf. joft, 
' [Prov. Eng.] 
deos,"Go'A: see'deity.] A Chinese god 
Down with dukes, earls, and lords, those pagan Josses, jot 2 (jot), adv. 
False Gods ! Wolcot, Odes to Kien Long, ii. right HalUwell. 
Critick in jars and josses, shews her birth, jotet, 
Drawn, like the brittle ware itself, from earth. ^ _ jotter (jot ' er), . 1 . One who jots, or makes 
brief notes or memoranda. 2. A book in which 
jottings or memoranda are made. Imp. Diet. 
jotting (jot'ing), n. [Verbal n. otjoft, v.~\ A 
brief written note or remark ; a memorandum. 
Ill make a slight jotting the 
Colman, Jealous Wife, Epil. 
The object of the bell-ringing seemed to be to notify 
the whole population of the town that his Excellency the 
governor was communing with his JOBS. 
G. Herman, The Century, XXXVIII. 73. 
, , ,.,<- , T 
It. giorno, a day, day, daylight, an opening, <. fa, 
diurnus, daily : see diiirn, journal.'] It. Day. 
And on the xi e tour of Pentecoste, the kynge satte at 
mete, and with hym the Duke of Tintagel. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 67. 
jossat, interj. [ME. ; origin obscure. Cf. joss- 
block.] An address to horses, possibly meaning 
' stand still.' 
Thise sely clerkes rennen up and doun 
With "Keepe 1 stand ! stand ! jossa warderere." 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 181. 
joss-block, jossing-block (jos'blok, jos'ing- 
blok), n. [Cf. jossa.'] A horse-block. HalU- 
well. [Prov. Eng.] 
Tut, your honour ! . 
2. [Mod. F., pron. zhor.] (a) In decorative art, 
an opening forming part of a design. (6) In 
lace-making, one of the regular meshes of the 
ground. See a jour. 
VUU1" Il< 'MUM I . . . . * Minikv t* o*m e v j-^ft.-,,,^ g d o / I \ A 11 * 1 "UV * 1 ' . f\ 
morn; it will cost but a charter of resignation in favorem; JOUr 2 (jer), n. A colloquial abbreviation Ol 
and 111 hae it ready for the next term in Exchequer. journeyman: as, a, jour printer; to work as a 
Scott, Waverley, Ixxi. j our _ 
jotun (yo'tun), n. [Dan., < Icel. jotunn = AS. jouring (jou'ring), n. [Prob. verbal n. of "jour, 
eoten, a giant.] In Seand. myth., one of a su- appar. < OF. jurer, swear: see jury.~\ 1. 
pernatural race of giants, enemies of the gods. Swearing. [Prov. Eng.] 
A great mist-jotun you will see 
Lifting himself up silently. 
Lowell, Appledore. 
. __ f _f idol-worship: some- 
times used by the Chinese for a Christian 
church. 
joss-paper (jos'pa"per), n. Pieces of gold or 
silver paper made into the shape of ingots of 
silver, and burned by the Chinese at funerals 
and before the shrines of certain of their gods. 
joss-pidgin (jos'pij"in), n. [Pidgin-Eng.] Any 
religious ceremony or ceremonies Joss-pidgin 
man, a priest or clergyman. 
joss-Stick (jos'stik), n. A small stick or per- 
fumed pastil consisting of a hardened paste 
,,, 
leek, Sempervivum tectorum 
called Jupiter 3 s-beard. 
,n. [<OF., 
Also 
in Scotland, consisting of an iron 
collar which surrounded the neck 
of the criminal, and was fastened 
to a wall or tree by an iron chain. 
Jongs. 
wood mixed with clay, used in Chinese temples 
and houses as incense before the idols, as a slow- 
match in measuring time at night, for lighting 
pipes, etc. 
jostle (jos'l), t'.; pret. and pp. jostled, ppr. 
jostling. [Formerly also iustle, joustle ; freq. 
of jusft, q. v.] I. trans. I. To push against; 
crowd against so as to render unsteady ; elbow ; 
hustle. 
There are two rocks, . . . which for that so near, as 
many times appearing but as one, they were fained by the 
Poets unstable, and at sundry times to justle each other. 
Sandys, Travail es, p. 31. 
While I was walking daily in and out great crowds of 
men, I could not be quit of thinking how we jostle one an- 
other. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, p. 616. 
2. To check. HalUwell. [Slang.] 
II. intrans. To hustle ; shove and be shoved 
about, as in a crowd. 
For the things of this World are like Epicurus his 
Atoms, always moving and justling against another. 
StiUingjleet, Sermons, II. iii. 
Theirs was no common party race, 
Jostling by dark intrigue for place. 
Scott, Marmion, i., Int. 
A crowd that WAS jostling in with me at the pit^door of 
Covent Garden. Lamb, Elia, p. 171. 
jostle (jos'l), n. [(jostle, v.] Apushingabout 
or crowding; a shock or encounter. 
In Fleete Street, received a great jostle from a man that 
had a mind to take the wall, which I could not help. 
Pepys, Diary, Feb. 8, 1660. 
jostlement (jos'1-ment), n. [< jostle + -ment.~] 
The act of jostling, nustling, or crowding aside. 
[Rare.] 
Anybody who had seen him projecting himself into Soho 
while he was yet on St. Dunstan's side of Temple Bar, 
bursting in his full-blown way along the pavement, to the 
jostlement of all weaker people, might have seen how safe 
and strong he was. Dickens, Tale of Two Cities, ii. 12. 
jot 1 (jot), n. [Early mod. E. also jote; < LL. 
sans), n. ___ . . 
sance, enjoyment, <.joir,jouir, enjoy: see joy, v.] 
1. Enjoyment; joy; mirth. 
To see those folkes make such jovysaunce, 
Hade my heart after the pype to daunce. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. 
The time 
Craves that we taste of nought but jouissance. 
Qreene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 
2. In law, possession and use, as distinguished 
from ownership. 
J0uk 1 t Cjok), r. i. [Also dial, juke; < ME.j'ottfcen, 
< OF. jouquier, joquier, jokier,jouchier, iucltier, 
roost, lie down, F. jttcher, Wall, jouki, roost, 
perch.] 1. To roost; perch. 2. To lie down; 
be flat. 
For certes it non honour is to the 
To wepe. and in thy bed iojouken thus. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 409. 
jouk 2 , jook (jok), v. i. [Also juke; perhaps a 
dial, variation of duck 1 ; but cf. jouk 1 , 2.] 1. 
To stoop or incline the body with a quick mo- 
tion, or suddenly shift one's position so as to 
avoid or mitigate a blow, or conceal one's self; 
duck or dodge. [Scotch.] 
Nae help was thairfor, nane wald^'ou*, 
Ferss was the fecht on ilku syde. 
Battle QfBarlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 186). 
I jouk beneath misfortune's blows. 
Burns, To James Smith. 
2. To bow or courtesy ; make obeisance. 
When within the hall he came, 
He jooked and couch'd out ower his tree [staff]. 
John Thomson and the Turk (Child's Ballads, III. 354). 
But why should we to nobles jouk? 
Burns, Election Ballads, i. 
joukery, jookery (jo'ker-i), n. [(joukt + -ery.'] 
Trickery; jugglery. [Scotch.] 
I pray that Lord that did you hither send, 
You may your cursings, swearing, jmtrings end. 
Robert Hayman's Quodlibets, 4to, 1628. (Naret.) 
As this way of boorish speech is in Ireland called The 
Brogue upon the Tongue, so here [in Somerset] it is named 
Jouring. Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, I. 360. 
2. A scolding. HalUwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
A volley of vituperation, couched in what is there [in Ab- 
ingdon, England] called the jouring dialect. 
Scott, Kenilworth, xx. 
journal (jer'nal), a. and n. [< OF. journal, jor- 
nal, jurnal, journel, etc., F. journal = Sp. Pg. 
jornal = It. giornale, daily, a journal, < L. diur- 
nalis, daily: see diurnal, of -which journal is a 
doublet.] I.t a. Daily; quotidian; diurnal. 
Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting. 
Shak., M. for M., iv. 3, 92. 
II. n. 1. A diary or daily record; an ac- 
count of daily transactions or events; a book 
or paper containing such an account or made 
for entering it ; any record of a series of trans- 
actions. 
Princes in ancient time had, upon point of honour and 
policy both, journals kept of what passed day by day. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 135. 
I would not have thee to report at Ian 
From point to point, a. journal of thy f 
Twill take up too much time. 
Ford, Lover's Melancholy, v. 1. 
An extract of his diary no more, 
A tasteless journal of the day before. 
Cowper, Conversation, 1. 276. 
Specifically (a) In bookkeeping by double entry: (1) A book 
in which every particular article or charge is distinctly 
entered from the day-book or blotter under each day's date, 
as a "debit" to a person and "credit" to a thing, or vice 
versa, and thus systematized or classed to facilitate post- 
ing to the ledger. (2) A day-book. (b) Naut., a daily reg- 
ister of the ship's course and distance, the winds, the 
weather, and other circumstances, (c) A newspaper or 
other periodical published daily; hence, any publication 
issued at successive periods containing reports or records 
of current events of any kind. 
Hence journals, medleys, merc'ries, magazines. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 42. 
(d) In mining, a record of the strata passed through in 
sinking. 
2f. A day's work or travel ; a journey. 
In all thy age of journals thou hast took, 
Sawest thou that pair became these rites so well? 
B. Jonson. 
3. In mach., that part of a shaft or axle which 
rests in the bearings. See first cut under axle- 
box. 
The shears have journals, which rest in bearings, mova- 
ble backwards and forwards by the screws. 
W. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 558. 
I was so displeased by the jookerie of the bailie that we journal (jer'nal), f. t. ; pret. and pp. journaled 
had no correspondence on public affairs till long O r journalled, ppr. journaling or journalUng. [< 
' p journal, n.~] In macJi., to insert, as a shaft, in 
MVSL^SJK *Jf r .t a 7-!rL 8ma11 t hi ??; a Joukery-pawkery (jo'ker-i-pa'ker-i), . [<jofc. a journa i. bear i n g. 
The cranks are placed upon posts, rafts, or boats in the 
stream, and journalled at the water-line, thus keeping one- 
half of the paddle-surface in action. Science, III. 606. 
jot, < Phen. (Heb. ) yodh, the letter so called, the 
smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, hence 
used proverbially of something very small. See 
ery + pawk extended with -ery, to assort with 
the first element.] Trickery; pawky cunning ; 
hypocrisy. [Scotch.] 
