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Causing joyfulness. [R.] This all joysome grove. T. Browne.

To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. "Chaos [shall] judge the strife." Milton.

A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.

To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not ju…

oir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral. Grove.

A dry husk or covering. When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly. Holland.

Cold as a metallic key; lifeless. [Formerly, a proverbial expression.] Shak. Milton.

by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.

ess with unknown variations or additions. The product is mentioned by some authors, as improved Harvey, or Harvey-Krupp armor plate.

A wife; -- not now in approved usage. Goldsmith.

akin to French, formerly spoken south of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oc); Provencal.

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard. Shak. Let no alien Sedley interpose To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. Dryden.

Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage. "Leafless groves." Cowper. -- Leaf"less*ness, n. Leafless plants, plants having no foliage, though leaves may be present in the form of scales and bracts. See Leaf, n., 1 and 2.

To reprove formally and with authority.

, to legitimate a bastard child. To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice. Milton.

onal. The German Lied is perhaps the most faithful reflection of the national sentiment. Grove.

To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up. The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. Addison. Lest, being lifted up with pride. I Tim. iii. 6.

An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak.

h little effort or difficulty; easily; readily. That lightly come, shall lightly go. Old Proverb. They come lightly by the malt, and need not spare it. Sir W. Scott.

To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. Sir P. Sidney.