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Link towns to towns with avenues of oak, 
Ihciofe w.hole towns in walls, ’tis all a joke! 
Inexorable death (hall level all. Pope. 
To JOKE, v.n. To jeft; to be merry in words and 
aft ions : 
Our neighbours tell me oft, in joking talk, 
Of allies, leather, oat-meal, bran, and chalk. Gay. 
JO'KER,/. A jefter; a merry fellow.—Thou mad’ft 
thy firft appearance in the world like a dr y joker, buffoon, 
or jack pudding. Dennis. 
JO'KI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon: fifty 
miles north of Meaco. 
JO'KIM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JO'KING, f. The aft of jefting, or uttering jefts. 
JO'KIOIS, a town of Sweden, in the province of Ta- 
vaftland : twenty-eight miles weft-fouth-weftof Tavafthus. 
JOK'KAS, a town of Sweden, in the province of Ta- 
vaftland : 107 miles north-eaft of Tavafthus. 
JOK'KATO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Barra. 
JOKfMEAM, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
JOK'NEAM, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
jO'KO, a town of Africa, in Kaarta. Lat. 14. 30. N. 
Ion. 8. W. 
JOKO'MI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
twenty-five miles north ofjedo. 
JOK'SHAN, [Heb. difficult.] Second fon of Abraham 
and Keturali. Calmet is of opinion, that he peopled 
part of Arabia, and that he is the perfon whom the 
Arabians call Cahtan, and acknowledge as the head of 
their nation. He dwelt in the provinces eaft of Beerflieba, 
i. e. in part of Arabia the Happy, and part of Arabia 
the Defert. This Mofes exprefsly mentions: Unto the fans 
of the concubines which Abraham had Abraham gave gifts, and 
Jcnt them away from lfaac his fon cafwarcl into the eajl country. 
Jokfhan’s ions were Sheba and Dedan, who dwelt in the 
fame country. Bochart. Pkaleg. lib. i. cap. 15. Gen. xxv. 1-6. 
JOK'TAN, [Heb. fmall.] The eldell: fon of Eber, 
who had for his portion all the land which lies from Mefia 
as thou goejl unto Sepha, a mount of the eaf. Gen. x. 25, 30. 
Mefha was fituated in Mefopotamia, and Sephar is in the 
country of Sepharvaim, or the Sepharrenians, or Sapiors, 
or Serapares; for thefe all denote the fiime ; i. e. a people 
who according to Herodotus were placed between the 
Colchians and the Medes. Now this was in the province 
which Mofes commonly defcribes by the name of Keden, 
or the eaft. We find traces in this country of the names 
of Joktan’s fons; which is a farther confirmation of this 
opinion. The names of Joktan’s thirteen fons were Almo- 
. dad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Dik- 
3 ah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilali, and Jobab. 
The Arabians believe that their country w'as peopled in 
the beginning by Joktan, the fon of Eber, and brother 
of Peleg; who, after the divifion of languages, came and 
dwelt in the peninfula of Afia, which might have taken 
its name from Jerah the fon of Joktan, or from a large 
plain in the province of Feliama called Arabat. Thefe 
ancient Arabians lived here without mingling with other 
people till Ifhmael and his fons fettled there; who, mixing 
with the former Arabians, were called Mof-arabes, or Mo/la- 
■drabes , i. e. mixed Arabians. 
JOKfTHEEL, a city of Judah, (Jofli. xv. 38.) perhaps 
the fame as Jekabzeel of the fame tribe, (.Nell. xi. 25.) but 
this laft is rather Kabzeel; Jofir. xv. 21. and 2 Sam. xxiii. 
20, See. 
• JOK'THEEL, a rock which Amaziah, king of Judah, 
took from the Edomites, and from the top whereof he 
threw down ten thoufand Edomites, whom he had taken 
in battle. Eufebius is of opinion, that this rock is the 
city of Petra, the capital.of Arabia Petraea. The battle 
wherein the Edomites were defeated was fought in the 
Valley of Salt, which we place between Palmyra and Bozra. 
Pliny lays, that the folitudes of Palmyra reach to the city 
J o L 
of Petra. It'is probable, therefore, that Amaziah puflied 
his conqueft as far as this city, and gave it the name of Jok- 
theel, that is to fay, Obedience to the Lord-, thereby fignify- 
ing, that he underftood the viftory which he had obtained 
over the Edomites to proceed from the obedience which 
he had paid to God. 
IOLA'IA, a feftival at Thebes, the fame as that called 
Heracleia. It was inftituted in honour of Hercules and his 
friend Iolas, who aflilted him in conquering the hydra,. 
See Hydra. It continued during leveral days, on the firft 
of which were offered folemn facrifices. The next day 
horfe-races and athletic exercifes were exhibited. The 
following day was fet apart for wreftling; the vifitors were 
crowned with garlands of myrtle, generally ufed as funeral 
folemnities; they were fometimes rewarded wdth tripods 
of brafs. The place where the exercifes were exhibited 
was called lolaion ; where there w'ere to be feen the mo¬ 
nument of Amphitryon and the cenotaph of Iolas, who 
was buried in Sardinia. Thefe monuments were firewed 
with garlands and flowers on the day of the feftival. 
I'OLAS, or Iolaus, in fabulous hiftory, a fon of Iphi- 
clus king of Theffaly, who affifted Hercules in conquer¬ 
ing the hydra, and burnt with a hot iron the place where 
the heads had been cut off, to prevent the growth of others. 
He was reftored to his youth and vigour by Hebe, at the 
requeftof his friend Hercules. Some time afterwards Iolas 
aflilted the Heraclidas againft Euryfiheus, and killed the 
tyrant wdth his own hand. According to Plutarch, Iolas 
had a monument in Boeotia and Phocis, where lovers ufed 
to go and bind themfeLves by the moft folemn oaths of 
fidelity, confidering the place as facred to love and friend- 
fiiip. According to Diodorus and Paufanias, Iolas died 
and was buried in Sardinia, where he had gone to make a. 
fettlement at the head of the fons of Hercules by the fifty 
daughters of Thefpius. 
IOL'CUS, the name of a fea-port in Theffaly, in which 
the argo was fuppofed to be laid up; and the name (hows 
the true hiftory.of the place. It was denominated from, 
the ark, ftyled oAwhich was one of the Grecian names 
for a large ark or float. Iolcus was originally Jaolcus, 
which is a variation of Aia-Olcas, the Place of the Ark. As 
Iolchos was the city of the ark, it was hence alfo called 
Lariffa; and the ancient inhabitants were ftyled Minyre^ 
and the country Magnefia. 
I'OLE, a daughter of Eurytus, king of CEchalia. Her 
father promifed her in marriage to Hercules ; but he re- 
fufed to perform his engagements, and Iole was carried 
away by force. It was to extinguifh the love of Hercules 
for Iole, that Dejanirafent him the poifoned tunic, which 
caufed his death. After the death of Hercules, Iole mar¬ 
ried his fon Hyllus by Dejanira. Apollodorus. 
JOLE,/. [gueule, Fr.] The face or cheek. It is feldom 
ufed but in the phrafe cheek by j ole .—Your wan complexi¬ 
on, and your thin joles, father. Dryden .—A man, who has 
digefted all the fathers, lets a pure Englifh divine go cheek, 
by jole with him. Collier on Pride, 
An! by him, in another hole, 
Afflifted Ralpho, cheek by jole. Hudibras, 
The head of a fifh : 
Red-fpeckled trouts, the falmon’s fdver jole, 
The jointed lobfter, and unlcaly foal. Gay. 
JO'LIAN, a town of Hindooftan in Guzerat: twenty 
miles north of Gogo. 
JOL'iBA, a river of Africa, which flows from weft to 
eaft, between 15 and 35 0 of eaft longitude. This is now 
fuppofed to be the river deferibed by Herodotus, book ii. 
ch. 32, 32. and which that hiftorian imagined to be the 
Nile. 
IOLFTHU 5 , f. in botany. See Byssvs. 
To JOLL, v. a. [fromyo/e, the head.] To beat the head 
againlt any thing ; to clafli with violence.—The tortoifes 
envied the eafinefs of the frogs, ’till they faw them jolled. 
to pieces and devoured for want of a buckler. L'Ef range, 
4 JOLE, 
