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A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel. [Written also gingal and jingall.] [India]

ively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.

f the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.

A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster. [Obs.] Carew.

1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.

ngland and Europe, the Lias, Oölite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains. -- n.

merican shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.

stor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; -- called also mountain parrot.

A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris.

Kit fox (Zoöl.), a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox.

A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.

The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.

A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.

Hill; mountain. [South Africa]

A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

ianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.

An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk.

An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.

astened cross strips or rounds forming steps. Some the engines play, And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryden.