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our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Addison.

and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, the irruptions of the Goths into Italy. Addison.

Also; as an additional article.

To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French. Addison.

Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth. Addison.

One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.

The quality of being jaunty. That jauntiness of air I was once master of. Addison.

fierce game. Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm Addison.

th these sisters have I sworn my love: Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder. Shak. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Bacon.

To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at. And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves. B. Jonson.

A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. Shak.

See Jet d'eau. [R.] Addison.

Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.

A professional rider of horses in races. Addison.

ively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. Woe unto them that join house to house. Is. v. 8. Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined. Shak. Thy tuneful voice with numbers join. Dryden.

ng in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters. Addison.

o write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.

owncast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. [He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden.

a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency. "Extraordinary junctures." Addison. In such a juncture, what can the most plausible and refined philosophy offer Berkeley.

ry any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest. The jury, passing on the prisoner's life. Shak.