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A cheer; a shout of joy, etc. Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.] A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen. Mrs. Stowe.

A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome. Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre. Macaulay.

Having twenty equal sides or faces.

A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces. Regular icosahedron, one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangules meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

Same as Hyosternal (a).

Jehovah. Ps. lxviii. 4.

See Jehovist, Jehovistic.

The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.

A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.

The jharal.

oard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious. Jonah crab (Zoöl.), a large crab (Cancer borealis) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water.

A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.

One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew. Kitto.

See Cafila.

A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant.

f the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephant trap. [India]

The Indian jackal.

An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.