(n.) Same as Jupon.

(v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.

(v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.

(v. t.) To agree; to harmonize.

(n.) A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.

(v. t.) To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love.

(v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.

(a.) Neat; handsome; elegant. See Gimp.

(n.) See Jinnee.

(pl. ) of Jinnee

(v. t. & n.) See Jag.

(n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

(v. t.) To imprison.

(n.) An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot.

(n.) The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.

(n.) Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.

(v. t.) See Jam, v. t.

(v. i.) See Jaunt.

(v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.

(v. t.) To mock; to trick.

(n.) Jasper.

(v. i.) See Yawn.

(a.) Relating to the jaws.

(n.) A morass; a shallow lake.

(n.) A gear; a tackle.

(n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.

(v.) To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.

(v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.

(n.) A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.

(v. i.) To jelly.

(v. t.) To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

(v. t.) To beat; to strike.

(v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.

(v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.

(v. i.) To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.

(v. i.) To flout with contempt.

(n.) A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.

(n.) A sudden start or spring.

(n.) A deed; an action; a gest.

(n.) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.

(n.) Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.

(v. i.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.

(v. i.) To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.

(v. i.) To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.

(v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

(v. t.) To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.

(v. t.) To unite in marriage.

(v. t.) To enjoin upon; to command.

(v. t.) To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.

(v. i.) To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join.

(n.) The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines.

(n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.

(n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.

(v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.

(v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.

(v. t. & n.) Alt. of Joll

(v. t. & n.) Same as Jowl.

(v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

(v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.

(n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.

(n.) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.

(v. i.) See Juke.

(v. t.) See Jowl.

(n.) The cheek; the jaw.

(v. t.) To throw, dash, or knock.

(n.) chancel screen or rood screen.

(n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read.

(n.) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

(n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

(n.) Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

(n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

(n.) A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

(v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

(n.) The neck of a bird.

(v. i.) To perch on anything, as birds do.

(a.) For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance.

(a.) A body of men, usually twelve, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest.

(a.) A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.