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of her own ; and there are twenty fmall ones for-the con* 
cubines. Befides, all the vaffal kings have each a palace 
in the city, with a handfome garden and (tables- for two 
thpufand, horfes. The lioufes of the common fort are no¬ 
thing but a ground-floor, and the rooms are parted by 
foldingifcreens; fo that they.can make the rooms larger 
or fmaller at pleafure. It is feated in an agreeable plain 
at the bottom of a. fine bay, and the river which croffes it 
is divided into feverai canals. Lat. 35. 32. N. Ion. 140. o. E. 
JEDEI'AH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JEDI'AEL, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JEDI'DAH, [Heb. amiable.] The name of a woman. 
JEDIDI'AH, [Heb. beloved of the Lord.] A name 
given to Solomon. 
JED'JE-R, f. A petty zemlndary; the jaghireof a prince. 
JEDLIN'SKI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
^andomerz:; eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Radom. 
JEDNIT'ZA, a town of Hungary, in the borders of 
Moravia: thirty miles north of Topoltzan. 
JED'SO. See Jeso. 
JEDUTHUN,/ [Heb. one that praifes.] A man’s name. 
JEE, J. A title of refpeCt much ufed in Hindooftan ; 
es fir, mafter, worfhip. 
To JEER, v, rt. [of uncertain etymology.] To feoff; 
to flout; to make mock : 
The merry world'did on a day 
With his trainbands and mates agree 
To meet together where I lay. 
And all in fport to jeer at me. Herbert. 
7 o JEER, v.a. To treat with feoffs.—My children abroad 
.are driven to difavow me, for fear of being jeered. Howel. 
JEER; f- Scoff; taunt; biting jell; flout; jibe; mocks 
Midas, expos’d to all their jeers. 
Had loft his art, and kept his ears. Swift. 
' They tipt the forehead in a jeer, 
As who fhould fay—She wants it here ; 
She may be handfome, young, and rich: 
But none will burn her for a witch. Swift. 
JEERTR, f. A fcofl'er; a fcorner ; a mocker. 
JEERTT, f. A fort of combat on horfeback ; an exer- 
eife in Turkey. 
JEER'ING, f. The aCl of fcoffing.—Abftain from dif- 
folute laughter, petulant uncomely jells, loud talking, 
and jeering, which are called indecencies and incivilities. 
Tay ter. 
JEER'INGLY, adv. Scornfully; contemptuoufly; in 
s mock; in feoff.—'He jeeringly demandeth, whether the fo- 
. norous rays are refracted ? Derham. 
JE'EZER, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JE'EZERITE, [from jeezerj A defeendant of Jeezer. 
JEFF, a contraction of Jeffery. 
JEF'FERSON, a fort in the north-weft territory of the 
United States of America, is fituated on a fmall ftream 
which falls into the Great Miami; contains about one 
hundred men: twenty-one miles north of Fort St. Clair. 
Lat. 40. 4. N. 
JEF'FERSON, a fort on the eaft bank of the Mifliflippi, 
in Kentucky, near the line of the ftate of Tenneflee. 
JEF'FERSON, a town of Virginia, fituated on the north 
fide of Roanoke l iver, nineteen miles below the Oeconea- 
.chey ifiands. Lat. 36. 32. N. 
JEF'FERSON, a county of Kentucky, bounded north 
and weft by Ohio river, fouth by Nelfon county, and 
foutMeaft-and-eaft by Shelby. It contains 4565 inhabi¬ 
tants;-of whom 876 are Haves. Chief town, Louifville, 
at the Rapids of Ohio.—Drinnon’s Lick, in this county, 
lies on. the fouth-weft fide of Kentucky river, about fif¬ 
teen miles from its mouth ; and is leparated from the fa r 
m»us medicinal fpring by a fmall rivulet. 
JEF'FERSON", a county in Tenneflee, and in Hamilton 
diftrief, which contained, by the ftate cenfus of 1795, 7840 
inhabitants, of whom 776 were flaves. 
JEF'FERSON, a new county of Georgia, erected in 
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*796, from the counties of Burke and Warren, bordering 
on Ogeechee river, and Briar and Big creeks. Courts and 
elections are held at Louifville for this county, a court- 
houfe not being yet ereCted. 
JEFFERSO'NIA, f. A plant Lately difeovered in Geor¬ 
gia by Dr. Brickel of Savannah, and fo named by hini 
in compliment to the prefident of the United States. It 
is a genus of the-dal's pentandria, order monogynia. The 
generic characters-are—Calyx: below,-compofed of five 
fhort oval imbricated leaves. Corolla: monophyllous, 
funnel-fhaped, on the receptacle, fub-pentangular, bear¬ 
ing the filaments near the bafe, its margin hypocrateri- 
.form, divided into five round dufts nearly equal; flyle 
filiform, fliorter than the petal, but longer than the fta- 
mens ; ftigma, quadrifid; anthers, ereft, linear, fagittated. 
Fruit; two univalved, carinated, potyfpermous capfules, 
united at the bafe, opening on their tops and contiguous 
fides, having flat feeds, with a marginal wing. 
Jefferfonia fempervirens ; the only fpecies as yet difeo- 
vered. It is a fhrnb with round polifhed twining Hems, 
which climb upon bullies and fmall trees; the petioles 
fhort, oppofite; leaves oblong, narrow, entire, evergreen, 
acute; flowers axillary, yellow, having a fweet odour. 
The woods are full of this delightful fhrub, which is co¬ 
vered with bloffoms for many months in the year. 
JEF'FERY, the name of a man. 
JEF'FERY (Thomas), an Englifh proteftant diffenting 
divine, memorable for his excellent defences of Chrifti- 
anity, was the fon of a refpeCtable merchant at Exeter, ia 
Devonfhire, where he was born at the clofe of the feven- 
teenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. In 
the year 1726 he fettled at Little-Baddow, in Effex; but 
did not continue there longer than till the year 1728, 
when he returned to his native city. At this time, by 
the publications which he produced, he had afforded evi¬ 
dence of talents and diligence 1 in ftudy which would have 
reflected credit on advanced age, and were wonderful in 
a young man. Great expectations were confequently 
formed of the advantages which the world would derive 
from his future labours; but they were unhappily fruf- 
trated by his premature death, which appears to have taken 
place foon after his return to Exeter. His publications 
met with the approbation and appljlufe of the learned and 
judicious, and even extorted high encomiums from Mr. 
Anthony Colli,ns, againll whole works they were princi-r 
pally directed. Dr. Kennicott, who was an excellent 
judge of whatever relates to the quefliori concerning tha 
predictions of the Old Teftament, highly approved of our 
author’s anfwers to Collins; and Dr. Doddridge, who re¬ 
peatedly refers to and quotes him in his Family Expofi- 
tor, fpeaks of him as having treated the fubject of pro¬ 
phecy, and the application of it in the New Teftament, 
more ftudioufly, peiliaps, than any one fince the time 
when Eufebius wrote his Demonttratio E/angelica. 
JEF'FERY of MON'MOUTH. See Geoffrey, vol. 
vi)i. p. 339. 
JEF'FREYS (Sir George), Baron Wem, commonly 
called Judge Jeffreys, was the fixth fon of John Jeffreys, 
efq. of ACton in Denbighfhire; and was educated at VVelt- 
minfter-fchool, whence he removed to the Inner Temple, 
where he applied himfelf to the ftudy of the lav/. Aider- 
man Jeffreys, who was probably related to him, introduced 
him among the citizens of London; and, being a merry 
bottle-companion, he foon came into great bulinefs, and 
was clnsfen recorder. He was afterwards chofen folicitor to 
the duke of York ; and in 1680 was knighted, and made 
chief-Juftice of Chefter. At length, religning the re$or- 
derfhip, he obtained the poft of chief-juftice of the king’s- 
■bencfi, and, foon after the acceftion of James II. the great 
Leal. During the. reign of king Charles II. he fliowed 
himfelf a bitter enemy to thofe'diffenting minifters who, 
in that time of perfecution, were tried by him. He was 
one of the greateft advilers and promoters of all the op- 
prefflohs and arbitrary meafures carried on in the reign of 
James II. and his fanguinary and inhuman proceedings 
againft 
