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To thrash; to beat. [Low]

A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak.

To ride on a jaunting car. Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] Thackeray.

An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship. Jeer capstan (Naut.), an extra capstan usually placed between the foremast and mainmast.

rtaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.

So as to jingle. Lowell.

One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.

Confused mixture. [Low]

ining thirty days. And what is so rare as a day in June Then, if ever, come perfect days. Lowell. June beetle, June bug (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large brown beetles of the genus Lachnosterna and related genera; -- so called because they begin to fly, in the northern United States, about the first of June.…

Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.

A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk. [Colloq.] Lowell.

ning to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence. [R.] "Juristic ancestry." Lowell.

Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

A low ridge. [Scot.] See Eschar.

The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

n; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent. Shak. 'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep. J. Fletcher.

y the French in Algeria about 1830 it was tall and stiff with a straight visor. It is now lower, has a curved visor, and is frequently soft.

med foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. Macaulay. Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns. Shak.

Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance. You fall at once into a lower key. Cowper. Key bed. Same as Key seat. -- Key bolt, a bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut. Key bugle. See Kent bugle. -- Key of a position or country. (Mil.) See Key, 4. -…