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See Jauntiness.

A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land. Knight.

See Jaunty.

The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

resented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace. Dr. W. Smith. Janus cloth, a fabric having both sides dressed, the sides being of di…

Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

Double-headed.

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, such as is held in a cup or stand called a zarf.

To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. [R.] Daniel.

Sitting, as a lion or other beast. Sejant rampant, sitting with the forefeet lifted up. Wright.

A native or inhabitant of Troy. Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed. Finnegan's Wake (Irish song)

distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five. [India] [Written also yojana.]

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

solete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

Auxiliary. [Archaic] The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear. Pope.

nch, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.

To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.

Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.