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- English Word Junketing Definition A feast or entertainment; a revel.
- English Word Junketries Definition Sweetmeats.
- English Word Junold Definition See Gimmal. K () the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).
- English Word Junos Definition of June
- English Word Junta Definition A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.
- English Word Juntas Definition of Junta
- English Word Junto Definition A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians.
- English Word Juntos Definition of Junto
- English Word Jupati palm Definition A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes.
- English Word Jupe Definition Same as Jupon.
- English Word Jupiter Definition The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
- English Word Jupiter Definition One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.
- English Word Jupon Definition Alt. of Juppon
- English Word Juppon Definition A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips.
- English Word Juppon Definition A petticoat.
- English Word Jura Definition 1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.
- English Word Jura Definition The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.
- English Word Jura-trias Definition A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata, in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended.
- English Word Jural Definition Pertaining to natural or positive right.
- English Word Jural Definition Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.
- English Word Juramenta Definition of Juramentum
- English Word Juramentum Definition An oath.
- English Word Jurassic Definition Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains.
- English Word Jurassic Definition The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.
- English Word Jurat Definition A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.
- English Word Jurat Definition The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed.
- English Word Juratory Definition Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution.
- English Word Jurdiccion Definition Jurisdiction.
- English Word Jurdon Definition Jordan.
- English Word Jurel Definition A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.