JEALOUSLY, adverb jel'usly. With jealousy or suspicion; emulously; with suspicious fear, vigilance or caution.

JEALOUSNESS, noun jel'usness. The state of being jealous; suspicion; suspicious vigilance.

JEALOUSY, noun jel'usy.

1. That passion of peculiar uneasiness which arises from the fear that a rival may rob us of the affection of one whom we love, or the suspicion that he has already done it; or it is the uneasiness which arises from the fear that another does or will enjoy some advantage which we desire for ourselves. A man's jealousy is excited by the attentions of a rival to his favorite lady. A woman's jealousy is roused by her husband's attentions to another woman. The candidate for office manifests a jealousy of others who seek the same office. The jealousy of a student is awakened by the apprehension that his fellow will bear away the palm of praise. In short, jealousy is awakened by whatever may exalt others, or give them pleasures and advantages which we desire for ourselves. jealousy is nearly allied to envy, for jealousy before a good is lost by ourselves, is converted into envy, after it is obtained by others.

JEALOUSY is the apprehension of superiority.

Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealousy had excellence to deserve our fondness.

2. Suspicious fear or apprehension.

3. Suspicious caution or vigilance, an earnest concern or solicitude for the welfare or honor of others. Such was Paul's godly jealousy for the Corinthians.

4. Indignation. God's jealousy signifies his concern for his own character and government, with a holy indignation against those who violate his laws, and offend against his majesty. Psalms 79:5.

JEARS, noun In sea-language, an assemblage of tackles by which the lower yards of a ship are hoisted or lowered. Hoisting is called swaying, and lowering is called striking. This word is sometimes written geers or gears. [See Gear.]

JEAT, noun A fossil of a fine black color. [See Jet.]

JEE. A word used by teamsters, directing their teams to pass further to the right, or from the driver, when on the near side; opposed to hoi or haw.

JEER, verb intransitive To utter severe, sarcastic reflections; to scoff; to deride; to flout; to make a mock of; as, to jeer at one in sport.

JEER, verb transitive To treat with scoffs or derision.

JEER, noun Railing language; scoff; taunt; biting jest; flout; jibe; mockery; derision; ridicule with scorn.

Midas exposed to all their jeers,

Had lost his art, and kept his ears.

JEE'RED, participle passive Railed at; derided.

JEE'RER, noun A scoffer; a railer; a scorner; a mocker.

JEE'RING, participle present tense Scoffing; mocking; deriding.

JEE'RING, noun Derision.

JEE'RINGLY, adverb With raillery; scornfully; contemptuously; in mockery.

JEF'FERSONITE, noun A mineral occurring in crystalline masses, of a dark olive green color passing into brown, found imbedded in Franklinite and garnet, in New Jersey.

JEG'GET noun A kind of sausage. [Not in use.]

JEHO'VAH, noun The Scripture name of the Supreme Being. If, as is supposed, this name is from the Hebrew substantive verb, the word denotes the Permanent Being, as the primary sense of the substantive verb in all languages, is to be fixed, to stand, to remain or abide. This is a name peculiarly appropriate to the eternal Spirit, the unchangeable God, who describes himself thus, I am that I am. Exodus 3:14.

JEHO'VIST, noun Among critics, one who maintains that the vowel-points annexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of the word and express the true pronunciation. The Jehovists are opposed to the Adonists, who hold that the points annexed to the word Jehovah, are the vowels of the word Adonai.

JEJU'NE, adjective [Latin jejunus, empty, dry.]

1. Wanting; empty; vacant.

2. Hungry; not saturated.

3. Dry; barren; wanting interesting matter; as a jejune narrative.

JEJU'NENESS, noun Poverty, barrenness; particularly, want of interesting matter; a deficiency of matter that can engage the attention and gratify the mind; as the jejuneness of style or narrative. [Jejunity is not used.]

JEL'LIED, adjective [See Jelly and Gelly.] Brought to the consistence of jelly.

JEL'LY, noun [Latin gelo, to congeal. See Gelly.]

1. The inspissated juice of fruit, boiled with sugar.

2. Something viscous or glutinous; something of the consistency of jelly; a transparent sizy substance, obtained from animal substances by decoction; portable soup.

JEL'LYBAG, noun A bag through which jelly is distilled.

JEN'ITE, noun A different orthography of yenite, which see.

JEN'NET, noun A small Spanish horse, properly genet.

JEN'NETING, noun [said to be corrupted from juneting, an apple ripe in June, or at St. Jean.] A species of early apple.

JEN'NY, noun A machine for spinning, moved by water or steam and used in manufactories.

JENT'LING, noun A fish, the blue chub, found in the Danube.

JEOFAIL, noun jef'fail. An oversight in pleading or other proceeding at law; or the acknowledgment of a mistake.

JEOPARD, verb transitive jep'ard. [See Jeopardy.] To hazard; to put in danger; to expose to loss or injury.

Zebulon and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives to the death in the high places of the field. Judges 5:18.

JEOPARDER, noun jep'arder. One who puts to hazard.

JEOPARDIZE, verb transitive jep'ardize. To expose to loss or injury; to jeopard. [This is a modern word, used by respectable writers in America, but synonymous with jeopard and therefore useless.]

JEOPARDOUS, a jep'ardous. Exposed to danger; perilous; hazardous.

JEOPARDOUSLY, adverb jep'ardously. With risk or danger.

JEOPARDY, noun jep'ardy. Exposure to death, loss or injury; hazard; danger; peril.

They were filled with water and were in jeopardy

Luke 8:23.

JER'BOA, noun A quadruped having very short fore legs.

JERK, verb transitive [This is probably the Ch.Heb. to reach, to spit, that is, to throw out with a sudden effort.]

1. To thrust out; to thrust with a sudden effort; to give a sudden pull, twitch, thrust or push, as, to jerk one under the ribs; to jerk one with the elbow.

2. To throw with a quick, smart motion; as, to jerk a stone. We apply this word to express the mode of throwing to a little distance by drawing the arm back of the body, and thrusting it forward against the side or hip, which stops the arm suddenly.

JERK, verb transitive To accost eagerly. [Not in use.]

JERK, noun A short sudden thrust, push or twitch; a striking against something with a short quick motion; as a jerk of the elbow.

His jade gave him a jerk

1. A sudden spring.

Lobsters swim by jerks.

JERK'IN, noun A jacket; a short coat; a close waistcoat.

1. A kind of hawk.

JER'SEY, noun [from the island so called.]

1. Fine yarn of wool.

2. The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool.

JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE, noun A plant, a species of Helianthus or Sunflower.

JESS, noun Short straps of leather tied round the legs of a hawk, by which she is held on the fist.

1. A ribbon that hangs down from a garland or crown in falconry.

JES'SAMIN, noun A genus of plants and their flowers. [See Jasmin.]

JES'SE, noun A large brass candlestick branched into many sconces, hanging down in the middle of a church or choir.

JESS'ED, adjective Having jesses on; a term in heraldry.

JEST, noun [Latin gestio.]

1. A joke; something ludicrous uttered and meant only to excite laughter. Religion should never be the subject of jest

2. The object of laughter or sport; a laughing stock.

Then let me be your jest I deserve it.

In jest for mere sport or diversion; not in truth and reality; not in earnest.

--And given in earnest what I begged in jest

3. A mask.

4. A deed; an action.

JEST', verb intransitive To divert or make merry by words or actions; to joke.

JEST not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be disgraced.

1. To utter in sport; to say what is not true, merely for diversion.

2. To play a part in a mask.

JEST'ER, noun A person given to jesting, sportive talk and merry pranks.

--He rambled up and down

With shallow jesters.

1. One given to sarcasm.

Now, as a jester I accost you.

2. A buffoon; a merry-andrew, a person formerly retained by princes to make sport for them.

JEST'ING, participle present tense Joking; talking for diversion or merriment.

JEST'ING, noun A joking; concise wit; wit that consists in a trope or verbal figure, in a metaphorical sense of words, or in a double sense of the same word, or in similitude of sound in different words.

JEST'INGLY, adverb In a jocose manner; not in earnest.

JES'UIT, noun s as z. One of the society of Jesus, so called, founded by Ignatius Loyola; a society remarkable for their cunning in propagating their principles.

JES'UITED, adjective Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits.

JES'UITESS, noun A female Jesuit in principle.

JESUIT'IC

JESUIT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles and arts.

1. Designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating.

JESUIT'ICALLY, adverb Craftily.

JES'UITISM, noun The arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits.

1. Cunning, deceit; hypocrisy; prevarication; deceptive practices to effect a purpose.

JES'UITS'-BARK, noun Peruvian bark; the bark of the Cinchona, a tree of Peru.

JET, noun [Latin gagates.] A solid, dry, black, inflammable fossil substance, harder than asphalt, susceptible of a good polish, and glossy in its fracture, which is conchoidal or undulating. It is found not in strata or continued masses, but in unconnected heaps. It is wrought into toys, buttons, mourning jewels, etc.

JET is regarded as a variety of lignite, or coal originating in wood.

JET, noun [Latin jactus.]

1. A spout, spouting or shooting of water; a jet d'eau.

2. A yard. Tusser. Drift; scope. [Not in use or local.]

JET, verb intransitive [See the Noun.] To shoot forward; to shoot out; to project; to jut; to intrude.

1. To strut; to throw or toss the body in haughtiness.

2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.

[This orthography is rarely used. See Jut.]

JET'SAM

JET'SON

JETTEAU, noun jet'to. A throw or spout of water.

JET'SON

JETTEAU, n. jet'to. A throw or spout of water.

JET'TEE, noun A projection in a building.

JET'TISON, noun In law and commerce, properly, the throwing of goods overboard in order to lighten a ship in a tempest for her preservation. The word may however be used for the goods thus thrown away, or adverbially.

Jetsam is where goods are cast into the sea, and there sink and remain under water; flotsam, is where they continue swimming; ligan is where they are sunk in the sea, but tied to a cork or buoy.

JET'TY, verb intransitive To jut.

JET'TY, noun A small pier or projection into a river for narrowing it and raising the water above that place.

JET'TY, adjective Made of jet, or black as jet.

JET'TYHEAD, noun The projecting part of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.

JEW, noun [a contraction of Judas of Judah.] A Hebrew or Israelite.

JEW'EL, noun [Low Latin jocale.]

1. An ornament worn by ladies, usually consisting of a precious stone, or set with one or more; a pendant worn in the ear.

2. A precious stone.

3. A name expressive of fondness. A mother calls her child, her jewel

JEW'EL, verb transitive To dress or adorn with jewels.

JEW'ELED, participle passive Adorned with jewels.

JEW'ELER, noun One who makes or deals in jewels and other ornaments.

JEW'ELING, participle present tense Adorning with jewels.

JEW'ELRY, noun Jewels in general.

JEW'ESS, noun A Hebrew woman. Acts 24:24.

JEW'ISH, adjective Pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews. Titus 1:14.

JEW'ISHLY, adverb In the manner of the Jews.

JEW'ISHNESS, noun The rites of the Jews.

JEW'RY, noun Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews, whence the name of a street in London.

JEZ'EBEL, noun An impudent, daring, vitious woman.