JOB, noun [of unknown origin, but perhaps allied to chop, primarily to strike or drive.]
1. A piece of work; any thing to be done, whether of more or less importance. The carpenter or mason undertakes to build a house by the job The erection of Westminster bridge was a heavy job; and it was a great job to erect Central wharf, in Boston. The mechanic has many small jobs on hand.
2. A lucrative business; an undertaking with a view to profit.
No cheek is known to blush nor heart to throb,
Save when they lose a question or a job
3. A sudden stab with a pointed instrument. [This seems to be nearly the original sense.]
To do the job for one, to kill him.
JOB, verb transitive To strike or stab with a sharp instrument.
1. To drive in a sharp pointed instrument.
JOB, verb intransitive To deal in the public stocks; to buy and sell as a broker.
The judge shall job the bishop bite the town,
and mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
JOB'BER, noun One who does small jobs.
1. A dealer in the public stocks or funds; usually called a stock-jobber.
2. One who engages in a low, lucrative affair.
JOB'BERNOWL, noun A loggerhead; a blockhead. [A low word.]
JOCK'EY, noun [said to be from Jackey, a diminutive of Jack, John; primarily, a boy that rides horses.]
1. A man that rides horses in a race.
2. A dealer in horses; one who makes it his business to buy and sell horses for gain. Hence,
3. A cheat; one who deceives or takes undue advantage in trade.
JOCK'EY, verb transitive To cheat; to trick; to deceive in trade.
1. To jostle by riding against one.
JOCK'EYSHIP, noun The art or practice of riding horses.
JOCO'SE, adjective [Latin jocosus, from jocus, a joke.]
1. Given to jokes and jesting; merry; waggish; used of persons.
2. Containing a joke; sportive; merry; as jocose or comical airs.
JOCO'SELY, adverb In jest; for sport or game; waggishly.
JOCO'SENESS, noun The quality of being jocose; waggery; merriment. [Jocosity is not used.]
JOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin jocularis, from jocus, a joke.]
1. Jocose; waggish; merry; given to jesting; used of persons.
2. Containing jokes; sportive; not serious; as a jocular expression or style.
JOCULAR'ITY, noun Merriment; jesting.
JOC'ULARLY, adverb In jest; for sport or mirth.
JOC'ULARY, adjective Jocular. [Not in use.]
JOC'ULATOR, noun [Latin] A jester; a droll; a minstrel.
JOC'ULATORY, adjective Droll; merrily said.
JOC'UND, adjective [Latin jocundus, from jocus, a joke.]
Merry; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
Rural sports and jocund strains.
JOCUND'ITY
JOC'UNDLY, adverb Merrily; gayly.
JOC'UNDNESS, noun State of being merry; gayety.
JOG, verb transitive [Eng. shock, shake.] To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to give notice or excite attention by a slight push.
Sudden I jogged Ulysses.
JOG, verb intransitive To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot.
So hung his destiny, never to rot,
While he might still jog on, and keep his trot.
1. To walk or travel idly, heavily or slowly.
Thus they jog on, still tricking, never thriving.
JOG, noun A push; a slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention. When your friend falls asleep at church, give him a jog
1. A rub; a small stop; obstruction.
JOG'GER, noun One who walks or moves heavily and slowly.
1. One who gives a sudden push.
JOG'GING, participle present tense Pushing slightly.
JOG'GING, noun A slight push or shake.
JOG'GLE, verb transitive [from jog.] To shake slightly; to give a sudden but slight push.
JOG'GLED, participle passive Slightly shaken.
JOG'GLING, participle present tense Shaking slightly.
JOHAN'NES, noun [John, latinized.] A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars; contracted often into joe; as a joe, or half-joe. It is named from the figure of king John, which it bears.
JOHN'APPLE, noun A sort of apple, good for spring use, when other fruit is spent.
JOIN, verb transitive [Latin jungo, jungere; jungo for jugo, jugum; Eng. yoke;
Gr. a yoke, and a pair, to join ]
1. To set or bring one thing in contiguity with another.
Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field. Isaiah 5:8.
2. To couple; to connect; to combine; as, to join ideas.
3. To unite in league or marriage.
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab. 2 Chronicles 18:1.
What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Matthew 19:6.
4. To associate.
Go near and join thyself to this chariot. Acts 8:29.
5. To unite in any act.
Thy tuneful voice with numbers join
6. To unite in concord.
But that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment. 1 Corinthians 1:10.
The phrase, to join battle, is probably elliptical, for join in battle; or it is borrowed from the Latin, committere proelium, to send together the battle.
In general, join signifies to unite two entire things without breach or intermixture, by contact or contiguity, either temporary or permanent. It differs from connect, which signifies properly, to unite by an intermediate substance. But join unite, and connect are often used synonymously.
JOIN, verb intransitive To grow to; to adhere. The place where two bones of the body join is called a joint or articulation.
1. To be contiguous, close or in contact; as when two houses join
2. To unite with in marriage, league, confederacy, partnership or society. Russia and Austria joined in opposition to Buonaparte's ambitious views. Men join in great undertakings, and in companies for trade or manufacture. They join in entertainments and amusements. They join in benevolent associations. It is often followed by with.
Any other may join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering satisfaction.
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? Ezra 9:14.
JOIN'DER, noun A joining; as a joinder in demurrer.
JOIN'ED, participle passive Added; united; set or fastened together; associated; confederated.
JOIN'ER, noun One whose occupation is to construct things by joining pieces of wood; but appropriately and usually, a mechanic who does the wood-work in the covering and finishing of buildings. This is the true and original sense of the word in Great Britain and in New England. This person is called in New York, a carpenter. [See Carpenter.
JOIN'ERY, noun The art of fitting and joining pieces of timber in the construction of utensils or parts of a building, so as to form one entire piece.
JOIN'HAND, noun Writing in which letters are joined in words; as distinguished from writing in single letters.
JOIN'ING, participle present tense Adding; making contiguous; uniting; confederating.
JOINT, noun [Latin junctura. See Join.]
1. The joining of two or more things.
2. In anatomy, the joining of two or more bones; an articulation; as the elbow, the knee, or the knuckle.
3. A knot; the union of two parts of a plant; or the space between two joints; an internode; as the joint of a cane, or of a stalk of maiz.
4. A hinge; a juncture of parts which admits of motion.
5. The place where two pieces of timber are united.
6. In joinery, straight lines are called a joint when two pieces of wood are planed.
7. One of the limbs of an animal cut up by the butcher.
Out of joint luxated; dislocated; as when the head of a bone is displaced from its socket. Hence figuratively, confused; disordered; misplaced.
JOINT, adjective Shared by two or more; as joint property.
1. United in the same profession; having an interest in the same thing; as a joint-heir or heiress.
2. United; combined; acting in concert; as a joint force; joint efforts; joint vigor.
JOINT stock, the capital or fund of a company or partnership in business.
JOINT, verb transitive To form with joints or articulations; used mostly in the participle; as the fingers are jointed; a cane has a jointed stalk.
1. To form many parts into one; as jointed wood.
2. To cut or divide into joints or quarters.
JOINT'ED, participle passive Formed with articulations, as the stem of a plant.
1. Separated into joints or quarters.
JOINT'ER, noun A long plane, a joiner's utensil.
JOINT'LY, adverb Together; unitedly; in concert; with cooperation.
1. With union of interest; as, to be jointly concerned in a voyage.
JOINT'RESS, noun A woman who has a jointure.
JOINT'STOOL, noun A stool consisting of parts inserted in each other.
JOINT'URE, noun An estate in lands or tenements, settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, and which she is to enjoy after her husband's decease.
JOINT'URE, verb transitive To settle a jointure upon.
JOINT'URED, participle passive Endowed with a jointure.
JOIST, noun A small piece of timber, such as is framed into the girders and summers of a building to support a floor.
JOINT, verb transitive To fit in joists; to lay joists.
JOKE, noun [Latin jocus.]
1. A jest; something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive; raillery. A jealous person will rarely bear a joke
2. An illusion; something not real, or to no purpose.
Inclose whole downs in walls, 'tis all a joke!
In joke in jest; for the sake of raising a laugh; not in earnest.
JOKE, verb intransitive [Latin jocor.] To jest; to be merry in words or actions.
JOKE, verb transitive To rally; to cast jokes at; to make merry with.
JO'KER, noun A jester; a merry fellow.
JO'KING, participle present tense Jesting; making merry with.
JOLE, noun [sometimes written jowl.]
1. The cheek; used in the phrase, cheek by jole that is, with the cheeks together, close, tete a tete.
2. The head of a fish.
JOLE, verb transitive To strike the head against any thing; to clash with violence. [Not used.]
JOL'LILY, adverb [See Jolly.] With noisy mirth; with a disposition to noisy mirth.
JOL'LIMENT, noun Mirth; merriment.
JOL'LINESS
JOL'LITY, noun [from jolly.] Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity.
All was now turned to jollity and game.
1. Elevation of spirit; gayety.
He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel for him who was only worthy to enter into it.
[This word in America is not now applied to respectable company.]
JOL'LITY, n. [from jolly.] Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity.
All was now turned to jollity and game.1. Elevation of spirit; gayety. He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel for him who was only worthy to enter into it.[This word in America is not now applied to respectable company.]
JOL'LY, adjective
1. Merry; gay; lively; full of life and mirth; jovial. It expresses more life and noise than cheerful; as a jolly troop of huntsmen.
[It is seldom applied in colloquial usage to respectable company. We rarely say of respectable persons, they are jolly It is applied to the young and the vulgar.]
2. Expressing mirth or inspiring it.
And with his jolly pipe delights the groves.
The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors.
3. Exciting mirth and gayety; as jolly May.
4. Like one in high health; pretty.
JOLT, verb intransitive To shake with short abrupt risings and fallings; as a carriage moving on rough ground. The carriage jolts.
JOLT, verb transitive To shake with sudden jerks, as in a carriage on rough ground, or on a high trotting horse; as the horse or carriage jolts the rider.
JOLT, noun A shock or shake by a sudden jerk, as in a carriage.
JOLTER, noun He or that which jolts.
JOLTHEAD, noun A greathead; a dunce; a blockhead.
JOLTING, participle present tense Giving sudden jerks or shakes.
JON'QUIL, noun [Latin juncus, a rush.] A plant of the genus Narcissus or daffodil, bearing beautiful flowers, of various colors, yellow and white.
JOR'DEN, noun A vessel for chamber uses.
JO'SO, noun A small fish of the gudgeon kind.
JOS'TLE, verb transitive jos'l. To run against; to push.
JOS'TLED, participle passive Run against; pushed. We say, a thing is jostled out of its place.
JOS'TLING, participle present tense Running against; pushing.
JOS'TLING, noun A running against; a crowding.
JOT, noun [ Heb. yod.] An iota; a point; a tittle; the least quantity assignable.
Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law till all shall be fulfilled. Matthew 5:18.
A man may read much, and acquire not a jot of knowledge, or be a jot the wiser.
JOT, verb transitive To set down; to make a memorandum of.
JOT'TING, noun A memorandum.
JOUIS'SANCE, noun Jollity; merriment. [Not in use.]
JOURNAL, noun jur'nal. [Latin diurnum. This was originally an adjective, signifying daily, as in Spenser and Shakespeare; but the adjective is obsolete.]
1. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events; or the book containing such account.
2. Among merchants, a book in which every particular article or charge is fairly entered from the waste book or blotter.
3. In navigation, a daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, and other occurrences.
4. A paper published daily, or other newspaper; also, the title of a book or pamphlet published at stated times, containing an account of inventions, discoveries and improvements in arts and sciences; as the journal de Savans; the journal of Science.
JOURNALIST, noun jur'nalist. The writer of a journal or diary.
JOURNALIZE, verb transitive jur'nalize. To enter in a journal.
JOURNEY, noun jur'ny. [Latin diurnus, dies.]
1. The travel of a day.
2. Travel by land to any distance and for any time, indefinitely; as a journey from London to Paris, or to Rome; a journey to visit a brother; a week's journey; we made two journeys to Philadelphia.
3. Passage form one place to another; as a long journey from the upper regions.
4. It may sometimes include a passing by water.
JOURNEY, verb intransitive jur'ny. To travel form place to place; to pass from home to a distance.
Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south. Genesis 12:9.
JOUR'NEYING, participle present tense Traveling; passing from place to place.
JOUR'NEYING, noun A traveling or passing from one place to another; as the journeyings of the children of Israel.
JOUR'NEYMAN, noun [jounrey and man.] Strictly, a man hired to work by the day, but in fact, any mechanic who is hired to work for another in his employment, whether by the month, year or other term. It is applied only to mechanics in their own occupations.
JOUST. [See Just.]
JOVE, noun [Latin Jovis.]
1. The name of the Supreme Deity among the Romans.
2. The planet jupiter.
Or ask of yonder argent fields above.
Why Jove's satellites are less than jove
3. The air or atmosphere, or the god of the air.
And jove descends in showers of kindly rain.
JO'VIAL, adjective [from Jove, supra.] Under the influence of Jupiter, the planet.
--The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets.
JO'VIAL, adjective
1. Gay; merry; airy; joyous; jolly; as a jovial youth; a jovial throng.
2. Expressive of mirth and hilarity.
His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral, the rest are jovial or bacchanalian.
JO'VIALIST, noun One who lives a jovial life.
JO'VIALLY, adverb Merrily; gayly; with noisy mirth.
JO'VIALNESS, noun Noisy mirth; gayety.
JOWL, noun The cheek. [See Jole.]
JOWL'ER, noun The name of a hunting dog, beagle or other dog.
JOW'TER, noun A fish driver.
JOY, noun
1. The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; that excitement of pleasurable feelings which is caused by success, good fortune, the gratification of desire or some good possessed, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exultation; exhilaration of spirits.
JOY is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good.
Bring heavenly balm to heal my country's wounds,
JOY to my soul and transport to my lay.
2. Gayety; mirth; festivity.
The roofs with joy resound.
3. Happiness; felicity.
Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy
4. A glorious and triumphant state.
--Who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross. Hebrews 12:2.
5. The cause of joy or happiness.
For ye are our glory and joy 1 Thessalonians 2:19.
6. A term of fondness; the cause of you.
JOY, verb intransitive To rejoice; to be glad; to exult.
I will joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:18.
JOY, verb transitive To give joy to; to congratulate; to entertain kindly.
1. To gladden; to exhilarate.
My soul was joyed in vain.
2. To enjoy; to have or possess with pleasure, or to have pleasure in the possession of. [Little used. See Enjoy.]
JOY'ANCE, noun Gayety; festivity.
JOY'ED, participle passive Gladdened; enjoyed.
JOY'FUL, adjective Full of joy; very glad; exulting.
My soul shall be joyful in my God. Isaiah 61:10.
Rarely, it has of before the cause of joy.
Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.
JOY'FULLY, adverb With joy; gladly.
Never did men more joyfully obey.
JOY'FULNESS, noun Great gladness; joy. Deuteronomy 28:47.
JOY'LESS, adjective Destitute of joy; wanting joy.
With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat.
Rarely followed by of; as joyless of the grove.
1. Giving no joy or pleasure.
A joyless dismal, black and sorrowful issue.
JOY'LESSLY, adverb Without joy.
JOY'LESSNESS, noun State of being joyless.
JOY'OUS, adjective Glad; gay; merry; joyful.
Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
Whispered it.
1. Giving joy.
They, all as glad as birds of joyous prime--
It has of, before the cause of joy.
And joyous of our conquest early won.
JOY'OUSLY, adverb With joy or gladness.
JOY'OUSNESS, noun The state of being joyous.