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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,857 words match “JO”

Rejoicing. [Obs.]

One who rejoices.

REJOICING n. 3 definitions

Joy; gladness; delight. We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors. R. Nelson.

REJOICINGLY adv.

With joi or exultation.

REJOIN v. 5 definitions

To join again; to unite after separation.

REJOINDER v. 3 definitions

To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]

Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.

REJOINT v. 2 definitions

To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow.

REJOLT n. 2 definitions

A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. [R.] These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind. South.

To adjourn; to put off. [Obs.] Shak.

Adjournment. [Obs.]

Same as Sapajou.

SAN JOSE SCALE n.

, and other fruit trees. So called because first introduced into the United States at San José, California.

long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.

SELF-ENJOYMENT n.

Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction.

SHORT-JOINTED a.

Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.

SOJOURN v. 2 definitions

the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.

The act or state of one who sojourns.