J u N 
Do not exceed 
The prefcript of this fcroll: our fortune lies 
Upon this jump. Shakefp. Ant. and Cleopatra. 
\_Jupe, Fr. a petticoat.] A waiftcoat; a kind of loofe or 
limber ftays worn by fickly Indies : 
The weeping cafl'ock fear’d into a jump , 
A fign the pretbyter’s worn to the Hump. Cleveland. 
JUM'PING, f. The aft of leaping. 
JUM'PING POINT. See Navesink Harbour. 
JU'NA, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Aldan, 
lat. 60. 52.. N. Ion. 135. 14.. E. 
JUNAGUR', a town and fortrefs of Hindooftan, in the 
country of Guzerat: 170 miles fouth-weft of Amedabad. 
Lat. 2r. 50. N. Ion. 69.54.. E. 
JUNAK'SA, one of theFox Iflands, in the Pacific Ocean. 
Lat. 53. 26. N. Ion. 189.14.. E. 
JU'NAT, a town of Bengal: thirteen miles north-eaft 
of Rogonatpour. 
JUN'CAL, a feaport of South America, in the country 
of Chili, fituated on the coaft of the Pacific Ocean: fifty 
miles north of Copiapo. 
JUNCA'GO, /. in botany. See Triglochin. 
JUN'CALAS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Pyrenees: twelve miles l’outh of Tarbes. 
JUNCA'RE, v. a. In old records, to ftrew with ruflies. 
JUNCA'RIA, f. A place where rufhes grow. 
JUNCA'RIA, yi in botany. See Ortegia. 
JUN'CATE, J. [ juncade , Fr. gioncata, Ital.] Cheefe- 
cake ; a kind of fweetmeat of curds and lugar. Any de¬ 
licacy : 
A goodly table of pure ivory, 
All fpread with juncates, fit to entertain 
The greateft prince. Spenfer. 
With ftories told of many a feat,- 
How fairy Mab the juncates eat. Milton. 
A furtive or private entertainment. It is now improperly 
written junket in this fenfe, which alone remains much in 
ufe. See Junket. 
JUNCAW', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Mo- 
hurbunge: twenty-five miles north of Harriorpour. 
„ JUNCEL'LO ACCE'DENS. See Schoenus. 
JUNCEL'LUS,/. in botany. SeeSciRPUS. 
JUNCK'ER (Gottlob John), a learned phyfician of 
the Stahlian feft, was born in 168c at Londorff, near Gi- 
efien, in Hefle. He ftudied at Marpurg in Erfurt, took 
the degree of doftor of phyfic at Halle in 1708, and be¬ 
came an eminent medical profeflor in that univerfity, and 
a phyfician in the public liofpital. He died at Halle in 
1757. His works, which are chiefly compilations, have 
been much efteemed, and are ftill occafionally referred to. 
The principal are, 1, Confpeftus Medicinae Theoretico- 
Prafticas, Tabulis 137 omnes primarios Morbos, Methodo 
Stahliana traftandos, exhibens, 1718, 4to. 2. Confpeftus 
Chirurgiae, Sec. 172 1, 4-to. alio difpofed in a tabular form. 
3. Conlpeftus Formularum Medicorum, 1723, 440. 4. 
Confpeftus Theraputae generalis, 1725, 4to. 5. Confpec- 
tus Chemise Theoretico-Prafticse, in forma Tabularum re- 
prasfentatus, 1730, 4to. this is an elementary work on 
chemiftry, on the principles of Becher and Stahl, and, 
was publilhed in French with notes by Machy in 1757. 
6. Confpeftus Phyfiologise, 1735, 4to. 7. Conlpeftus Pa- 
thologiae, 1736, 4to. 
JUN'CO, a river of Africa, which crofles the Grain 
Coaft, and runs into the Atlantic ninety miles eaft-louth- 
eaft of Cape Monte. 
JUN'CO AFFI'NIS. See Juncus and Schoenus. 
JUNCOI'DES. See Juncus. 
JUNCOI'DI AP’FI'NIS. See Scheuchzeria. 
JUN'COUS, adj. [junccus, Lat. ] Full of bulrulhes. 
JUNCTION, J. [ jondlion , Fr.] Union ; coalition.— 
Upon the jundlion of the two corps, our fpies difeovered a 
great cloud of dull. Addifon. 
Vol.XI. No. 772. 
J U N 31? 
JUNCTURE, J. \_jundlura, Lat.] The line at which 
two things are joined together.—Befides thofe grofler ele¬ 
ments of bodies, fait, fulphur, and mercury, there may be 
ingredients of a more lubtle nature, which being extreme¬ 
ly iittle, may elcape unheeded at the junflures of the dis¬ 
tillatory veffels, though never fo carefully luted. Boyle. —■ 
Joint articulation.—She has made the back-bone of leve- 
ral vertebrae, as being lefs in danger of breaking than if 
they were all one entire bone without thole griitly junc¬ 
tures. More. —All other animals have tranfverfe bodies ; and, 
though fome do raife themfelves upon their hinder legs to 
an upright polture, yet they cannot endure it long, nei¬ 
ther are the figures, or junfiures, or order, of their bones, 
fitted to luch a polture. Hale. —Union ; amity.—Nor are 
the fobereft of them fo apt for that devotional compliance 
and jun&ure of hearts, which I defire to bear in thofe holy 
offices to be performed with me. King Charles. —A critical 
point or article of time.—By this profeffion in that junc¬ 
ture of time, they bid farewel to all the pleafures of this 
life. Addifon. —When any law does not conduce to the 
public fafety, but in fome extraordinary junctures the very 
obfervation of it would endanger the community, that 
law ought to be laid afleep. Addifon. 
JUNCULAM', a town of the illand of Java, fituated on 
the fouth-weft coaft: fifty-five miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Batavia. Lat. 6. 40. S. Ion. 105. 15. E. 
JUN'CUS,/. [a jugendo , from its utility in doling joints.] 
The Rush; in botany, a genus of the clafs hexandria, 
order monogynia, natural order of tripetaloidese, (junci, 
JuJf.) The generic characters are—Calyx: glume two- 
valved ; perianthium fix-leaved ; leaflets oblong, acumi¬ 
nate, permanent. Corolla : none, unlels the coloured pe¬ 
rianthium be regarded as fuch. Stamina: filaments fix, 
capillary, very ftiort; antherse oblong, ereft, the length of 
the perianthium. Piltillum.: germ three-cornered, acu¬ 
minate ; ftyle (liort, filiform ; ftigmas three, long, filiform, 
villofe, bent in. Pericarpium: capfule covered, three- 
fided, three or one celled, three-valved. Seeds : fome, 
roundilh .—Ejjential Character. Calyx fix-leaved ; corolla 
none; capfule one-celled. 
The rulhes have a fimple grafly ftem, without leaves or 
knots, or elfe knotty, with a lheathing leaf at each knot; 
flowers terminating or lateral, corymbed or panicled, w'ith 
the branchlets fpathaceous at the bafe. Thefe plants 
agree with the grades in the glumes of their flowers, and 
the fheaths of their leaves ; they differ in having the items 
filled with pith, whereas in grades the ftem it is well 
known is hollow. The ruflies form an intermediate link 
between the grades, and fome of the liliaceous plants, as 
Anthericum, Sec. They form naturally two divifions, 
one without leaves, allied to Scirpus, Sc c. and the other 
with leafy items, Some authors have made two genera of 
thefe. But all claflical botanical writers, fays Dr. Smith, 
have judicioufly preferved this very natural genus entire, 
notwithftanding the capfule is in fome fpecies one-celled, 
in others three-celled ; and who can help wilhingthar bo- 
tanifts had not divided many natural genera on more tri¬ 
vial grounds? 
Species. I. With naked culms. 1. Juncus acutus, or 
prickly large fea-ruth : culm round, almoit naked ; pani¬ 
cle conglomerate, with almoft equal branches; involucre 
two-leaved, fpinofe ; feeds ovate. Root perennial. Leaves 
round and hard. Culm round, hard, and fmooth, finiih- 
ing in a winged-feathered membrane, and bearing at top 
feveral round lateral fpikes, fome feflile, and others pedun- 
cled ; the ftem continues above thefe, and ends in a hard 
pungent point. The panicle is crowded, clofe, from two to 
three inches long. Involucre, the fheath of the outer leaf, 
from an inch and half to two inches in length, terminat¬ 
ing in a ftiff pungent leaf, an inch or an inch and a half 
long; that of the inner leaf about an inch long, termi¬ 
nating in a tharp point about halt an inch long. Native 
of France, Italy, Carniola, and Wales on the coaft of Me- 
rionethlhire. 
2. Juncus maritimus, or hard fea-ruth: culm round, 
6 Q almoft 
