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Daily; diurnal. [Obs.] Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. Spenser.

The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]

One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] Mickle.

Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.

To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

l. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. -- Bookkeeping by do…

An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.

A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as , the cartoons of "Puck."

hrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

tors, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.

oupling, Chain coupling. See under Box, Chain. -- Coupling box, a coupling shaped like a journal box, for clamping together the ends of two shafts, so that they may revolve together. -- Coupling pin, a pin or bolt used in coupling or joining together railroad cars, etc.

A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.

attle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal (1886).

A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.

A daybook; a journal. [Obs.] Tatler.