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One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist.

To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Shak.

Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.

t; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.

A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo." Goldsmith.

ne formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.

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

To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest. He laughed, shouted, joked, and swore. Macaulay.

jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth.

Of or pertaining to Jones. The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.

Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy. Is this your joyous city Is. xxiii. 7. They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. Spenser. And joyous of our conquest early won. Dryden.

alled because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, "Jubilate Deo."

To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.

ct; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference. Just of thy word, in every thought sincere. Pope. The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies. Shak. He was a comely personage, a little above just stature. Bacon. Fire fitted with just…

nd the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." Wordsworth. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.

lacing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.

not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession. Both day and night did we keep company. Shak. Within this portal as I kept my watch. Smollett.

ans; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay. Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words ! Shak.

haucer. Every kind of beasts, and of birds. James iii.7. She follows the law of her kind. Wordsworth. Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. Emerson.