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with dirt through utineceflary traverfing and travelling. 
This word is Itill retained in Scotland and the northern 
counties. 
JAV'EL, f. A wandering or dirty fellow.—Sir Thomas 
More, preparing'himfelf for execution, put on his bell ap¬ 
parel, which the lieutenant compelled him to put off again, 
faying, That he who (hould have them was but a javel. 
What, fays fir Thomas, (hall I account him a javel, who 
fhall this day do me fo great a benefit ? More. 
When as time, flying with wings fwift, 
Expired had the term that thole two javels 
Should tender up a reckoning of their travels. Hubb. 
JAV'ELIN, f [javtlinc, Fr.] A fpear or half-pike, which 
anciently was uled either by foot or horle. It had an iron 
head pointed : 
Others, from the wall, defend 
With dart and jav'lin, {tones, and fulph’rous fire ; 
On each hand daughter and gigantic deeds. Milton. 
She (hakes her myrtle jav'lin: and., behind. 
Her Lycian quiver dances in the wind. Dryden. 
Flies the javelin fwifter to its mark, 
Launch’d from the vigour of a lie-man arm ? Addifon. 
JAVEI.'LO (Chryfoftome), a learned Italian Dominican 
of the Sixteenth century, taught philofophy and theology 
*t Bologna, and died about the year 1540. He wrote a 
worlcon philofophy, another on politics, and another on 
Chriftian (economy, which are eiteemed ; with notes on 
Pomponatius, and other works, printed in 3 vols. folio. 
JAU'ER, a principality of Silefia, bounded on the north 
by the principalities of Glogau and Sagan, on the eaft by 
Lignitz and Schweidnitz, on the fouth by ‘Bohemia, and 
on the weft by Bohemia and Lufatia. The whole princi¬ 
pality is mountainous. Its mountains are covered with 
wood. It yields likewife pit-coal and mill-ftones. The 
mountains contain various ores, with numerous mines of 
iron and copper, which are a finally worked. In this 
principality too is a mineral fpring, with feme warm baths, 
■which are much frequented. Exclufive of twelve towns, 
in this principality are fome villages four miles in length. 
Some of thefe villages contain two hundred families and 
upwards, and among their inhabitants are artificers, par¬ 
ticularly weavers, whofe goods are bought up for expor¬ 
tation. The earthenware is much efteemed. The prin¬ 
cipal towns are jauer, Birfchberg, Low.enberg, and Bunz- 
lau, all of, which give name to circles or riiftrifts, and are. 
.their refpeftive capitals. 
JAU'ER, a town of Silefia, and capital of the princi¬ 
pality of the fame name. In the year 1640, this town 
was taken and plundered by the Imperialifts : fixteen miles 
north-well of Schweidnitz, and twelve north of Freyburg, 
Lat. 50. 66. N. Ion. 24.4. E. Ferro. 
JAV'ERLHAC, a town of France, in the department 
of the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trifl of N.ontron : four miles north-weft of Nontron. 
JAUTFROY' (Stephen), a French prieft of the congre- 
.gation of the Chriftian doftrine, was a native of Oilioules 
in the diocefe of Toulon, and died in the year 1760, at 
what age we are not informed. His charafter is repre- 
fented to have been very refpeftable, both .cn account of 
his extenfive knowledge and his virtuous manners. He 
prefented to the world a collection of The Synodal Sta¬ 
tutes, publifhed by the General Synod held at Mende, in 
1738 and 1739, 8vo - and b e drew up an account of The 
Conferences at Mende, which appeared after his death, in 
1761, lirno. 
JAUFTIO'NI, a river in Louifiania, which runs a 
fouth-eaft courfe, and empties into the Mifllfliippi in lat. 
39.15. N. about fixteen miles fouth of the mouth of Fa- 
biani river, and thirteen north of that of Oahaha river. 
JAU'jAC, or Jaulnac, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Ardeche, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of Tanargue : five leagues fouth-weft of Privas. 
JAXI'SO, a river of Naples, in the province of Calabria 
Citra, vyhich runs into the Crate. 
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JAUL'NAIS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the di ft riel of 
Poitiers : two leagues north of Poitiers, and three and a 
half fouth-fouth-weft of Chatellerault. , 
To JAUNCE, v. n. [the old word for.] To jaunt: 
I was not made a horfe. 
And yet I bear a burden like an afs, 
Spur-gal I'd and tir'd by jauncing Bdlingbrolte. Shakefp. 
JAUN'DICE, f.\jaunie,jauniffe^ yellow, Fr.] Adiftem- 
per front obftruftions of the glands of the liver, which 
prevents the gall being duly feparated by them from the 
blood ; and fometimes, efpecinUy in hard drinkers, they 
are fo indurated as never after.to be opened, and lira; Pen 
the motion of the blood To much through that vifcus, as 
to make it divert with a force great enough into the gas¬ 
tric arteries, which go off from the hepatic, to break 
through them, and drain into the ftomach ; fo that vo¬ 
miting of blood, in this ■diftemper, is a fatal (ymptom. 
Quincy. 
Why (hould a man, whofe blood is warm within. 
Sit like his grandfire cut in alabafter ? 
Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice 
By being peevifh ? Shakcfpeare. 
For the cure of this diforuer, fee the article Pathology. 
JAUN'DICED, adj. InfefttKt with the Jaundice .: 
All feems infefted, that th’ infefted fpy, 
As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye. Pope. 
To JAUNT, v. n. 'jjanter, Fr.] To wander here and 
there; to bultle about. It is now always ufed in con¬ 
tempt or levity. 
JAUNT, / Ramble; flight; excurfion. It is com¬ 
monly ufed ludicroufly, but Iblemnly by-Milton: 
Our Saviour meek, and with untroubled mind. 
After his airy jaunt, though hurry’d fore, 
Hungry and cold, betook him to his reft. Milton. 
JAUN'TINESS, f. [from jaunty or janty, corrupted 
from gentil, Fr. See Janty.] Airynefs; flutter; gen- 
teelnefs.—A certain ftifrnefs in my limbs entirely deftroy- 
ed that jauntinefs of air I was once iriafter of. Addifon. 
JAUN/TING, f. The aft of rambling. 
JAV'ORNICK, a mountain of Carniola: fixt-een. miles 
ealt of Trieft. 
JAVRGN', a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayenne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftricl of 
Villains: one league-and three quarters north-north-weft 
of Villalne, and two eall of Laffay. 
JAUSIE'R, a town of France, in the department of,the 
Lower Alps,'and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Barcelonette : four miles north-ealt of Barcelonette. 
JAUT, a tribe of rajapouts ; they are Hindoos, who 
poflefs a large territory to the fouth ward of the Jumna.; 
they are governed by a raja, who is called Soorudge Maun. 
Roberts's Indian Glojfary. 
JAUX'A. See Atun-Xauxa. 
JAW, f. [joue, a cheek, Fr.] The bone of the mouth 
in which the teeth are fixed.—Pifo, who probably (peaks 
Ariftotle's meaning, faid that the crocodile doth not only 
move his upper jaw, but that his nether jaw4 s immove¬ 
able. Grew. 
More formidable hydra ftands within, 
Whofe jaws with iron teeth l’everely grim Dryden. 
The mouth : 
My tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou haft brought 
me into the dnft of.death. PJalm xxii. 15. 
A fmeary foam works o’er my grinding jaws, 
And utmoft anguifh (hakes my lab’ring frame. Howe. 
JAW-BONE, f. The bone of the jaw. 
JAW-TOOTH, f. One of the grinders. 
JAW'OR, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodek ; forty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of No- 
vogrodek. 
lAXAR'TES, 
