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A large, handsome squirrel (Sciurus Javensis), native of Java and Southern Asia; -- called also Java squirrel.

ecause its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water chestnut. -- Jesuits' powder, powdered cinchona bark. -- Jesuits' tea, a Chilian leguminous shrub, used as a tea and medici…

A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish.

A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.

A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference. The jostle of South African nationalities and civilization. The Nation.

place to place; to go from home to a distance. Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. Gen. xii. 9.

A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation. "Jubilations and hallelujahs." South.

Of or pertaining to the Jews. "The natural or Judaical [religion]." South.

A court of justice; a judicatory. South.

den movements causes the seed to roll to roll and jump about. -- Jumping deer (Zoöl.), a South African rodent (Pedetes Caffer), allied to the jerboa. -- Jumping jack, a toy figure of a man, jointed and made to jump or dance by means of strings. -- Jumping louse (Zoöl.), any of the numerous species of plant lice belo…

y public officers at the public cost. Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.

rn successors. W. Irving. The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South.

om the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity. Jupiter's beard. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyll…

A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevallé, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometim…

e despised that can not justly be blamed: where there is no choice there can be no blame. South.

One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs.

A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds,…

A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara. [Written also Khamseen.]

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka.

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square. [South Africa]