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rary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.

The quality or state of being inviolable; as, the inviolableness of divine justice.

Allurement; enticement. [R.] She gives the leer of invitation. Shak.

An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]

A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.

The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.

A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty.

passing from place to place; done on a journey. It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress. Bacon.

A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.

A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life. [Colloq., Australia]

The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

t.), a cloverlike plant (Lespedeza striata) from Eastern Asia, useful for fodder, first noticed in the Southern United States about 1860, but now become very common. During the Civil War it was called variously Yankee clover and Rebel clover. -- Japan earth. See Catechu. -- Japan ink, a kind of writing ink, of a deep…

The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry. Eph. v. 4.

The principles and practices of the Jesuits.

To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously. Congreve.

The act or practice of jobbing.

The act or practice of jesting. [Obs.]

A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.

The practice of jockeys.

sh or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn. Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well- favored youth Donne. Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side. Pope.