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Jeer
() A gear; a tackle.
Jeer
() An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
Jeered
() of Jeer
Jeering
() of Jeer
Jeer
() To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.
Jeer
() To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
Jeer
() A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
Jeerer
() A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
Jeering
() Mocking; scoffing.
Jeering
() A mocking utterance.
Jeers
() See 1st Jeer (b).
Jeffersonia
() An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.
Jeffersonian
() Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines.
Jeffersonite
() A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
Jeg
() See Jig, 6.
Jehovah
() 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.
Jehovist
() One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist.
Jehovist
() The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist.
Jehovistic
() Relating to, or containing, Jehovah, as a name of God; -- said of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Pentateuch, in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity. See Elohistic.
Jehu
() A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously.
Jejunal
() Pertaining to the jejunum.
Jejune
() Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
Jejune
() Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.
Jejunity
() The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.
Jejunum
() The middle division of the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum; -- so called because usually found empty after death.
Jelerang
() A large, handsome squirrel (Sciurus Javensis), native of Java and Southern Asia; -- called also Java squirrel.
Jell
() To jelly.
Jellied
() Brought to the state or consistence of jelly.
Jellies
() of Jelly
Jelly
() Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.
Jelly
() The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.
Jellied
() of Jelly
Jellying
() of Jelly
Jelly
() To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.
Jellyfish
() Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
Jemidar
() The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army.
Jemlah goat
() The jharal.
Jemminess
() Spruceness.
Jemmy
() Spruce.
Jemmy
() A short crowbar. See Jimmy.
Jemmy
() A baked sheep's head.
Jeniquen
() A Mexican name for the Sisal hemp (Agave rigida, var. Sisalana); also, its fiber.
Jenite
() See Yenite.
Jenkins
() name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper.
Jennet
() A small Spanish horse; a genet.
Jenneting
() A variety of early apple. See Juneating.
Jennies
() of Jenny
Jenny
() A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.
Jenny
() A familiar name of the European wren.
Jenny
() A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories.