judiciary 
To enable the federal head to exercise the powers given 
it to IM M advantage, it should he organized . . . into lr 
gislativc, executive, anil judirim -<i 
j<'jl''-r*<ni, r<inv>]> Irnrr, II. til. 
Judiciary Act, an act of the United stiit*-* COM- 
September 24th, 17S!t (1 Stat., 73), establishing the fcdi-ral 
courts of the Unlteil stairs, ilenning their jurisdiction and 
lowers, and regulating pmreilure: now embodied witli 
amendments in the provisions of ttie Revised Statutes. 
Judiciary anathema. s iuiti,enm, 2. Judiciary 
astrology. Same as judicial astrology (which see, under 
astrology). 
Tile consideration of his judiciary astrolttgy. 
link' n-'ll. Apology, p. 104. 
Judiciary law. See lawi. 
II. ii. That branch of government which is 
concerned in the trial and determination of 
controversies between parties and of criminal 
prosecutions; the system of courts of justice in 
a country; the judges taken collectively. 
The committee . . . reported a provision that the Ju- 
risdiction of the national judiciary should extend to all 
"questions which involved the national peace and har- 
mony." Calhmtn, Works, I. 245. 
judicious (JQ-dish'us), a. [= F. jiidicieiuc = Sp. 
Pg. fudicioso = It. ijiudiciotto, < ML. judiciosux, 
prudent, judicious, < L. judicium, judgment: see 
judicial.} 1. Having or exercising sound judg- 
ment; well-judging; prudent; discreet; sensi- 
ble : as, a judicious parent or teacher ; a judi- 
cious historian. 
This overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the 
unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. 
Shale., Hamlet, iii. 2, 29. 
2. Manifesting good judgment; well-judged; 
carefully considered or planned: as, a. judicious 
use of time or money ; judicious treatment of 
the insane. 
I shall give as particular an Account of ... the sev- 
eral sorts of Winds as my own Observations and the Ju- 
diciout Informations from others will afford me Matter 
to do. Dumpier, Voyages, II. ill. 2. 
A tale should \>e judicious, clear, succinct; 
The language plain, and incidents well link'd. 
Cooper, Conversation, 1. 286. 
3f. Relating to a court or to the administration 
of justice; judicial. 
His last offences to us 
Shall have judicious hearing. 
Shak., Cor., v. 6, 127. 
=Syn. 1 and 2. Prudent, rational, wise, discreet, intelli- 
gent, skilful, discerning, sagacious, sound, cool, politic. 
See sensible and astute. 
judiciously (jp-dish'us-li), adv. In a judicious 
manner ; with good judgment ; with discretion 
or wisdom. 
r>.\ judicious^ ;/ avail hiK himself of several . . . rare mo- 
ments, he (Templel succeeded in establishing a high char- 
acter for wisdom and patriotism. 
Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 
judiciousness (j<?-dish'us-nes), n. The quality 
of being judicious, or of acting or being accord- 
ing to sound judgment. 
Judy (jo'di), n. ; pi. Judies (-diz). [A familiar 
form of the fern, name Judith.'] 1. The pup- 
pet taking the part of Punch's wife in a "Punch 
and Judy" show. 2. In China, a native courte- 
zan: so called by foreigners. [Slang.] 3. A 
kelt, or spent male salmon. [Local, Ireland.] 
juelt, . A Middle English form of jewel. 
juffert (juf'6r), M. [Origin obscure.] In carp., 
a piece of timber four or five inches square. 
juft (yo'ft), n. [Russ. iuftil: see juchten.~\ Same 
as juchtcn. 
jug 1 (jug), n. [In def . 1 (whence def . 2) of prov. 
origin, audprob. a particular use of Jug, a famil- 
iar form of Judith, a common name for a wo- 
man. Cf. jack 1 and/iV/'-', as names of drinking- 
vessels, also from familiar personal names. In 
def. 3 also from the name Jug, perhaps with al- 
lusion also to jug in def. 1.] 1. A vessel, usu- 
ally made of earthenware, metal, or glass, of va- 
rious sizes and shapes, and generally provided 
with a handle or ear, used for holding and con- 
veying liquors; a drinking-vessel ; a pitcher; 
a ewer; in the United States, specifically, an 
earthenware vessel with a swelling or a cylin- 
drical body, a handle, and a narrow neck and 
orifice, usually stopped by a cork. As a quan- 
tity of ale or beer, a jug is usually a pint. 
Yet would you ... rail upon the hostess of the house, . . . 
Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts. 
Shot., T. of the S., Ind., 2, 90. 
I observe another fly in the cream-jug. 
Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, xv. 
2. A prison ; a jail : often called the stone jug. 
Gay. [Low.] 
He shall be kept iu the Stone-jug. Charley, like a gentle- 
man. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xii. 
3f. A low woman. [Slang.] 
Dooet thou think I am a six-penny iup.' 
T. Preston, Cambyscs. 
3249 
Hark ye, don't you marry that ill-manner'd Jug, the rel- 
ict of a cheating old rogue that has not left a foot of estate 
hut what he deserved to be hang'd for. 
Mrs. Ctnllivre, Platonic Lady, ill. 
Bank-jug, the bird Pkyllotcopus trochilus, or P. ru/us, so 
called from the site and shape of the nest. Also bank- 
buttle. TOby-Flllpot Jug, a JUK or pitcher having the 
form of a man with a three-cornered hat. Generally '"''//. 
jug 1 (jug), i: t. ; pret. and pp. jugged, ppr. jug- 
ging. [<JM(/I, w.J 1. To put into a jug; cook 
by putting into a jug, and this into boibng wa- 
ter. 2. To commit to jail; imprison. [Low.] 
Jugged hare, hare cut into pieces and stewed with 
wine and other seasoning. 
jug 2 (jug), v. i. ; pret. and pp. jugged, ppi.iuy- 
ijiiKj. [Perhaps a var. of juke 1 ,jouk^. Hardly < 
Icel. hjuka, nurse, cherish.] To nestle together; 
collect in a covey, as partridges: sometimes 
used as transitive with reflexive pronoun. 
Yet when they hear the questing spaniels gone. 
They in the evening get together all, 
With pretty jugging, and each other greet. 
Drayton, Miseries of Queen Margaret. 
jug 3 (jug), v. i. ; pret. and pp. jugged, ppr. jvy- 
ging. [Imitative. Cf. juck.~\ To utter a par- 
ticular sound resembling this word, as certain 
birds do, especially the nightingale. 
She [the nightingale] will jug it forth, but cheerfully and 
sweetly too. Partheneia Sacra (1638), p. 140. (Latham.) 
jug 3 (jug), n. [Early mod. E. also chuk: see 
jugS, .] A sound fancied to resemble the note 
uttered by the nightingale and some other birds. 
Skelton. 
I Mr I nil. lug, lug (in grlefe) had such a grace. 
Gascoigne, Complaint of Pbllomene (ed. Arber). 
n. Plural otjugum. 
juggleress 
group of noble falcons, like 
relatives are the lanner, t'alco 
the peregrine. IU nearest 
aker, of Europe, Asia, and 
Africa, and F. polyagrus, the American lanner, a common 
falcon on the prairies of the Western States. Also juggur, 
and lugger or luggur falcon. 
Juggernaut (jugV-r-uat), . [An E. rendering 
of Hind. Jatjannath.'} 1. The popular form of 
Jagannatha, the name of the famous Hindu idol. 
See Jagannatha, 2. 
About the year 1790 no fewer than 28 Hindus were 
crushed to death at Ishera on the Ganges, under the wheels 
of Jwjijurnaut. Quoted In Asiatic Journal, XXIII. TO 4 -'. 
2. Figuratively, something, as an idea, custom, 
fashion, requirement, etc., to which one either 
devotes himself or is blindly sacrificed. 
Poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of 
an Infant, the Juggernaut that crushed all his enjoyments. 
Forster, Dickens, II. 416. 
jugging (jug'ing), . [Verbal n. of jugl,v.] Jug- 
fishing. 
jugal (J6'gal), a. and n. [= P. jugal = Pg. ju- 
gal, < L. jugalis, pertaining to a yoke, yoked, 
matrimonial, < jugitm, a yoke : see jugum.'] I. 
a. If. Relating to a yoke or to marriage ; con- 
jugal. 
This deed was done 
When heaven had witness to the jugal knot; 
Only the barren ceremony wants, 
Which by an adverse father is abridg'd. 
Middleton and Rowley, Fair Quarrel, ii. 2. 
2. Pertaining to the jugal ; malar; zygomatic. 
Jugal point. See craniometry. Jugal process, the 
external angular process of the frontal none. See angu- 
lar processes, under angular. 
U. n. One of the bones of the zygoma or 
zygomatic arch; the malar bone, or principal 
cheek-bone, especially in those animals, as 
birds, in which it is a slender rod interposed 
between a quadrate or quadratojugal bone and 
the superior maxillary or lacrymal bone, when 
short and stout, as in man, it is usually called the malar, 
or malar bone. See quadratojugal. See cuts under Cy- 
clodus, Gallinte, Ichthyosauria, and skuU. 
jugata (jij-ga'ta), n. pi. [NL. (sc. capita, 
heads), neut. pi. of L. jugatus, connected: see 
jugate.'] In numis., two or more heads repre- 
sented upon a medal side by side, or one over- 
lapping the other. 
jugate (jo" gat), a. [< li.jugatus (= E. yoked), 
pp. oljugare, bind, connect, yoke (=E. yoke, .), 
< jugum, a yoke (= E. yoke, n.): see jugum. 
Cf. conjugate, a.] 1 . In bot., having the leaflets 
in pairs : said of pinnately compound leaves : 
used seldom or never except in composition 
with uni-, hi-, etc., as in unijugate, etc. 2. In 
numis., same as accolated. 
Jugate busts of Ptolemy IV. and Arslnoe(7). 
B. V. Head, Historia Numorum.p. 679. 
jugated (jo'ga-ted), a. Same as jugate. 
jug-bittent, a. Drunk. Nares. [Slang.] 
When any of them are wounded, pot-shot, jug-bitten, or 
cup-shaken, so that they have lost all reasonable faculties 
of the minde. John Taylor, Works (1630). 
juget, . and v. A Middle English form of judge. 
Chaucer. 
jugementt, n. A Middle English form of judg- 
ment. Chaucer. 
jugerum (jS'je-rum), n. ; -pl.jugera (-ra). [L.] 
In Rom. antiq., the common measure"of land, 
a surface 240 Roman feet long and 120 wide, 
equal to 0.622 acre, or 0.252 hectare. 
jug-fishing (jug'fish'ing), n. A method of fish- 
ing with empty jugs or bottles, which are corked 
and thrown overboard to serve as buoys, carry- 
ing a line, at the end of which is the hook. It 
is used for pike, bass, etc. C. Hallock. 
jugful (jug'ful), n. [<jugl + -/.] The amount 
a jug holds Not by a Jugful, not by a great deal ; 
_ by no means. [Slang, U. S.J 
juggar, n. Seejuiigrr. 
jugget, juggementt. Middle English forms of 
jndi/f, jiiilinin'iit. Cluiiii-i r. 
jugger, juggar (jug'6r, -ar), n. [E. Ind.] The 
common falcon of India, Falco jugger, which is 
trained to fly at large game, it belongs to the 
juggle, < L. joculari, jest, joke, ML. also play 
tricks, juggle, < joculus, dim. of jocun, a jest, 
joke: see joke, jocular."] I. intrans. 1. To play 
tricks by sleight of hand ; perform acts which 
make a show of extraordinary powers ; practise 
legerdemain; conjure. 
A juggling, tooth-drawing, prating mountebank. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 3. 
Vfh&t juggling was there upon the boardes ! 
What thrusting of knyves through many a nose ! 
What bearynge of formes ! what holdinge of swordes ! 
What puttynge of botkyns throughe legge and hose ! 
Ingeland, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 287. 
2. To play false; practise artifice or impos- 
ture. 
Be these juggling fiends no more believed. 
Shalt., Macbeth, v. 8, 19. 
I am in a riddling, rather juggling indisposition, fast 
and loose, and therefore dare not stir far. 
Donne, Letters, cxii. 
She never juggles ur plays tricks with her understanding. 
Lamb, Mackery End. 
Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou ruthless man ! 
Keats, Lamia, II. 
II. trans. To deceive by trick or artifice; 
impose upon by sleight of hand ; trick. 
Is 't possible the spells of France should juggle 
Men Into such strange mysteries? 
Shak., Hen. VIII., L S, 1. 
My hope is that the people of England will not suffer 
themselves to be jvggl'd thus out of their faith and reli- 
gion by a mist of names cast before their eyes. 
Miff an, Church-Government* L 6. 
juggle 1 (jug'l), n. [< juggle* , r.} A trick by 
legerdemain ; an imposture ; a deception. 
I think we may freely conclude that the notion of a God 
did not come from the Court, that it was not the Invention 
of politicians, and & juggle of state to cozen the people Into 
obedience. Tillotson, Works, L L 
Am I to be overawed 
By what I cannot hut know 
Is SL juggle born of the brain ? 
Tennyson, Maud, Xiiv. 6. 
juggle 2 (jug'l), t'. and n. A dialectal variant of 
joggle. 
juggle 2 (jug'l), . [Gt. joggle, .] A block of 
timber cut to a length, either in the round or 
split. E. H. Knight. 
juggler 1 (jug'ler), n. [Early mod. E. also iug- 
ler, < ME. jugler, juguler,jogelour, < OF. jogleor, 
juglor, jugleor, etc., also with inserted n, jon- 
gleor, jongleur, F. jongleur (cf. Pr.joglar) = It. 
giocolatore, < L. joculator, a jester, joker, "ML. 
also juggler, trickster, < joculari, jest, joke: 
see [juggR 1 .] 1. One who juggles or practises 
sleight of hand; one who performs tricks of 
great dexterity. 
Ther saugh I pleyen jugelours, 
Magiclens, and tregetours. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, L 12S9. 
Nimble jugglers that deceive the ere. 
Shak., C. of E., I. 2, 98. 
The Joculator regis, or king's juggler, was anciently an 
officer of note In the royal household : and we find from 
Domesday Book that Berdic, who held that office In the 
reign of the Conqueror, was a man of property. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 289. 
2. A cheat; a deceiver; a trickish fellow. 
O me ! you juggler! you canker-blossom ! 
You thief of love ! what, have yon come by night 
And stolen my love's heart from him? 
Shak., M. N. D., ill 2, 282. 
They were no jugglers, but really were that which they 
appeared to be. De Quincry, Rhetoric. 
juggler 2 (jug'ler), n. [Cf. juggle 1 *, joggle, .] 
In coal-mining, one of several timbers resting 
against one another at the top, so as to leave a 
triangular passageway. [Pennsylvania.] 
juggleress (jug'ler-es), n. [< juggler 1 -r- -ess.] 
A woman who practises jugglery. T. Warton. 
