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JOLL, f. [from the verb.] A violent concuflion ; a 
eollifion again ft any thing. 
JOL'LILY, adu. [from jolly.\ In a difpofition to noify 
mirth: 
The goodly emprefs, jollily inclin’d, 
Is to the welcome bearer wond’rous kind. Dryden. 
JOL'LIMENT, /. Mirth; merriment; gaiety. 0 /fo- 
lete : 
Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, 
She could devile, and thoufand ways invent 
To feed her foolifh humour and vain jo/liment. Fa. Queen. 
JOL'LINESS, f. Gaiety; merriment; feftivity. 
JOLI/ING, f. The att of clafhing by violence; a jolt. 
JOL'LITY, /. Gaiety^ elevation of fpirit.—He with a 
proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only 
for him, who was only worthy to enter into it. Sidney .— 
Merriment; feftivity.—Good men are never fo furprifed 
as in the -midll of their jollities, nor fo fatally overtaken 
and caught as when the table is made the lhare. South. 
The brazen throat of war had ceas’d to roar; 
All now was turn’d to jollity and game. 
To luxury and riot, feaft and dance. Milton. 
JOLTY, adj. \_joli, Fr . jovialis, Lat.] Gay; merry; 
airy; cheerful; lively; jovial: 
Thou with frefh hope the lover’s heart do’ft fill, 
While jolly hours lead on propitious May. Milton. 
This gentle knight, infpir’d by jolly May, 
Fcrfook his eafy couch at early day. Drydcn. 
A fliepherd now along the plain he roves, 
And with his jolly pipe delights the groves. Prior. 
Plump ; like one in high health.—He catches at an apple 
of Sodom, which, though it may entertain his eye with a 
florid jolly white and red, yet, upon the touch, it (hall fill 
his hand only with flench and foulnefs. South. —Perfona- 
ble.—Full jolly knight he feem’d, and faire did fitt. Spcnfer. 
JOL'LYHEAD, f. [ jolly, and head in its lenfe as a ter¬ 
minating fyllable.] Feftivity: 
Defpoyled of thofe joys and jolly-head, 
Which with thofe gentle fhepherds here I wont to lead. 
Spenfer. 
JO'LO, or Soere Carta, a town of the ifland of Java, 
and capital of the kingdom of Soofoohoonan. 
JOLO'NE KEY, a final 1 ifland among the Bahamas. 
Lat. 26. 12. N. Ion. 77. 2. W. 
'To JOLT, v. n. To fhake as a carriage on rough ground. 
—A coach and fix horfes is the utmoft exercife you can 
bear, and how glad would you be, f it could waft youin 
the air, to avoid jolting; ! Swift. 
To JOLT, v. a. To fhake one as a carriage does. 
JOLT, /. Shock; violent agitation.—The fir ft jolt had 
like to have fhaken me out; but afterwards the motion 
was eafy. Szuift. 
JOTTER, f. One that jolts. Johnfin. 
JOTTHEAD, f. A great head ; a dolt; a blockhead. 
1 —Had man been a dwarf, he had fcarce been a reafonable 
creature ; for he muft then have either had a joltfiead, and 
fo there would not have been body and blood enough to 
fupply his brain with fpirits ; or he muft have had a thrall 
head, and fo there would not have been brain enough for 
his bufinefs. Grew. 
JOTTING, f. The aft of fhaking, as a carriage on a 
rough road. 
JOTUT, an ifland near the weft coaft of Eaft Green¬ 
land. Lat. 60. 56. N, Ion. 46. 50. W. 
JOTUT, a town of Eaft Greenland. Lat. 60. 56. N. 
Ion. 46. 50. W. 
JOTY, a port on the fouth coaft of Nova-Scotia. 
JOMEL'LI (Nicholas), an eminent mufical compofer, 
was born in 1714 at Avellino in the kingdom of Naples. 
He received his mufical education under Durante and 
•Leo, and began to compofe operas, for the theatre at Home 
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in J740. He redded at that capital till 174when, being 
difappointed in his expectation, of obtaining the place of 
mailer of the band at St. Peter’s, he quitted it, and in 
1748 entered into the lervice of the duke of Wirtenrberg. 
At that prince’s court he refided twenty years, during 
which time he produced a great number of operas- and 
other compofitions, and effected a total change in the tafte 
of vocal mufic in Germany. He declined the prefling in¬ 
vitations of the king of Portugal to draw him to his court, 
but annually furnifhed him with new productions. Af¬ 
ter leaving Stuttgard,. he went to Naples, near which city 
he poftelled a delightful country retreat. He compofed 
three operas for the Neapolitan theatre, of which the laft, 
Iphigenia in Aulis, was in too learned a ftyle for the tafte 
of that capital; and he was fo mortified with its want of 
fuccefs, that an apopledlic fit was the confequence. He 
recovered, however, and continued to employ his talents 
as a compofer. His laft piece was a Miferere, on which 
he exercifed all his mufical fcience. He died in 1774, 
and was honoured witli a public funeral, at which near 
three hundred muficians affifted. 
Jomelli was one of the greateft maflers in his profeffion 
of his age and country. He was extremely rich in har¬ 
mony, and united- elegance with learning, and grace with 
bold defign. His grave and majeftic ftyle was flill better 
adapted to facred mufic than to that for the flage, and he 
acquired great fame by feme of his compofitions of- this 
clafs. He wrote mufic with fuch facility, that he feldotn 
ltudied at an inflrument. Three ftyles (fays Dr. Burney) 
may be traced in him. “Before he went to Germany, 
the eafy and graceful flow of Vinci and Pergolefl pervaded 
all his productions: when he was in the lervice of the 
duke of Wirtemberg, finding the Germans were fond of 
learning and complication, he changed his ftyle in com¬ 
pliance with the tafte and expectations of his audience; 
and, or, his return to Italy, he tried to thin and Amplify 
his dramatic mufic, which, however, was flill much too 
operofe for Italian ears.” Jomelli was a modeft man, and 
always fpoke with candour and liberal approbation of ri¬ 
val artifls. He was a proficient in other arts befides that 
of mufic, and had a very good tafte in poetry ; fome of 
his odes were much admired. Burney’s Hifi. of Mufic. 
JOM'PIR, a river of Hindcoftan, which runs into the 
Jumnah twenty miles fouth-eall of Agra. 
PON, in fabulous hillory, a fon of Xuthus and Creufa 
daughter of Erechtheus, who married Helice, the daugh¬ 
ter of Selinus king of Aig-iale. He fucceeded to the throne 
of his father-in-law; and built a city, which he called 
Helice on account of his wife. His fubjecls from him re¬ 
ceived the name of Iones, or Ionians, and the country that 
of Ionia. See Ionia. 
I'ON, a tragic poet of Chios, who flourifned about the 
82d Olympiad, His tragedies were reprefented at Athens, 
where they met with univerfal applaufe. He is mention¬ 
ed and greatly commended by Ariflophanes and Atlie- 
naeus, &c. 
lO'NA, or Icolmkill', one of the Hebrides; a fmall 
but celebrated ifland, “once the luminary of the Caledo¬ 
nian regions (as Dr. Johnfon expreffes it), whence lavage 
clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of know¬ 
ledge and the bleifings of religion.” The nam o Iona is 
derived from a Hebrew word fignifying a dove, in allufion 
to its patron Columba, who landed here in 565. See Co - - 
lumba, vol. iv. p. 833. 
This ifland, which belongs to the parifh of Rofs in 
Mull, is three miles long, and one broad ; the eaft fide is 
moftly flat; the middle riles into fmall hills, and the well 
fide is very rude and rocky; the whole forming a lingu¬ 
lar mixture of rock and fertility. There is in the ifland 
only one town, or rather village, confiding of about fixty; 
mean houfes. The population in 1798 amounted to about 
330. Near the town is the bay of Martyrs flain by the 
Danes. An oblong inclofure, bounded by a flone dyke, 
and called Clachnan Druinach, in which bones have been 
found, is fuppofed to have been a burial-place of the 
Druids, 
