Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter J - Page 6
Jervine (n.) (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine, and found with it in white hellebore ({Veratrum album); -- called also jervina.
Jesses (n. pl. ) of Jess.
Jess (n.) (Falconry) A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon.
Like a hawk, which feeling freed From bells and jesses which did let her flight. -- Spenser.
JESS, () Java Expert System Shell (Java, Shell).
Jasmine (n.) (Bot.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The Jasminum officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is Jasminum Sambac, and, with Jasminum angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium).
Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea. [Written also jessamine.]
Cape jasmine, or Cape jessamine, The Gardenia florida, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a native of China, and hardy in the Southern United States.
Jessamine (n.) (Bot.) Same as Jasmine.
Jessamine (n.) A climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea [syn: common jasmine, true jasmine, jessamine, Jasminum officinale].
Jessamine -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 39041
Housing Units (2000): 14646
Land area (2000): 173.132935 sq. miles (448.412225 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.319831 sq. miles (3.418347 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 174.452766 sq. miles (451.830572 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.879166 N, 84.587109 W
Headwords:
Jessamine
Jessamine, KY
Jessamine County
Jessamine County, KY
Jessant (a.) (Her.) Springing up or emerging; -- said of a plant or animal.
Jesse (n.) Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art; as:
Jesse (n.) A genealogical tree represented in stained glass.
Jesse (n.) A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse.
Jesse window (Arch.), A window of which the glazing and tracery represent the tree of Jesse.
Jesse, () Firm, or a gift, a son of Obed, the son of Boaz and Ruth (Ruth 4:17, 22; Matt. 1:5, 6; Luke 3:32). He was the father of eight sons, the youngest of whom was David (1 Sam. 17:12). The phrase "stem of Jesse" is used for the family of David (Isa. 11:1), and "root of Jesse" for the Messiah (Isa. 11:10; Rev. 5:5). Jesse was a man apparently of wealth and position at Bethlehem (1 Sam. 17:17, 18, 20; Ps. 78:71). The last reference to him is of David's procuring for him an asylum with the king of Moab (1 Sam. 22:3).
Jesse, () gift; oblation; one who is.
Jessed (a.) (Her.) Having jesses on, as a hawk.
Jest (n.) A deed; an action; a gest. [Obs.]
The jests or actions of princes. -- Sir T. Elyot.
Jest (n.) A mask; a pageant; an interlude. [Obs.] -- Nares.
He promised us, in honor of our guest, To grace our banquet with some pompous jest. -- Kyd.
Jest (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.
I must be sad . . . smile at no man's jests. -- Shak.
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. -- Sheridan.
Jest (v. i.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
Then let me be your jest; I deserve it. -- Shak.
In jest, For mere sport or diversion; not in truth and reality; not in earnest.
And given in earnest what I begged in jest. -- Shak.
Jest book, A book containing a collection of jests, jokes, and amusing anecdotes; a Joe Miller.
Jested (imp. & p. p.) of Jest.
Jesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jest.
Jest (v. i.) To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Jest (v. i.) To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. -- Shak.
Syn: To joke; sport; rally.
Usage: To Jest, Joke. One jests in order to make others laugh; one jokes to please himself. A jest is usually at the expense of another, and is often ill-natured; a joke is a sportive sally designed to promote good humor without wounding the feelings of its object. "Jests are, therefore, seldom harmless; jokes frequently allowable. The most serious subject may be degraded by being turned into a jest." -- Crabb.
Jest (n.) A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" [syn: joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape].
Jest (n.) Activity characterized by good humor [syn: jest, joke, jocularity].
Jest (v.) Tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious" [syn: joke, jest].
Jest (v.) Act in a funny or teasing way [syn: joke, jest].
Jester (n.) A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. -- Shak.
Dressed
in the motley garb that jesters wear. -- Longfellow.
Jester (n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in
light and amusing talk.
He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. -- Shak.
Jester (n.) A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool].
JESTER, (n.) An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume.
The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.
The widow-queen of Portugal Had an audacious jester Who entered the confessional Disguised, and there confessed her. "Father," she said, "thine ear bend down -- My sins are more than scarlet: I love my fool -- blaspheming clown, And common, base-born varlet." "Daughter," the mimic priest replied,
"That sin, indeed, is awful: The church's pardon is denied To love that is unlawful. "But since thy stubborn heart will be For him forever pleading, Thou'dst better make him, by decree, A man of birth and breeding." She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter; Then told a priest, who told the Pope, Who damned her from the altar! Barel Dort
Jestful (a.) Given to jesting; full of jokes.
Jesting (a.) Sportive; not serious; fit for jests.
Syn: joking.
He will find that these are no jesting matters. -- Macaulay.
Jesting (n.) The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry. -- Eph. v. 4.
Jesting (a.) Characterized by jokes and good humor [syn: jesting, jocose, jocular, joking].
Jestingly (adv.) In a jesting manner.
Jestingly (adv.) In jest; "I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express" [syn: jokingly, jestingly].
Jesuit (n.) (R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.
Note: The order consists of Scholastics, the Professed, the Spiritual Coadjutors, and the Temporal Coadjutors or Lay Brothers. The Jesuit novice after two years becomes a Scholastic, and takes his first vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience simply. Some years after, at the close of a second novitiate, he takes his second vows and is ranked among the Coadjutors or Professed.
The Professed are bound by a fourth vow, from which only the pope can dispense, requiring them to go wherever the pope may send them for missionary duty.
The Coadjutors teach in the schools, and are employed in general missionary labors. The Society is governed by a General who holds office for life. He has associated with him "Assistants" (five at the present time), representing different provinces. The Society was first established in the United States in 1807. The Jesuits have displayed in their enterprises a high degree of zeal, learning, and skill, but, by their enemies, have been generally reputed to use art and intrigue in promoting or accomplishing their purposes, whence the words Jesuit, Jesuitical, and the like, have acquired an opprobrious sense.
Jesuit (n.) Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer.
Jesuits' bark, Peruvian bark, or the bark of certain species of Cinchona; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America.
Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar.
Jesuits' nut, The European water chestnut.
Jesuits' powder, Powdered cinchona bark.
Jesuits' tea, A Chilian leguminous shrub, used as a tea and medicinally.
Jesuit (a.) Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education" [syn: Jesuitical, Jesuitic, Jesuit].
Jesuit (n.) A member of the Jesuit order.
Jesuited (a.) Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits. -- Milton.
Jesuitess (n.) (R. C. Hist.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633. Jesuitic
Jesuitic (a.) Alt. of Jesuitical.
Jesuitical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
Jesuitical (a.) Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. --Dryden.
Jesuitic (a.) Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education" [syn: Jesuitical, Jesuitic, Jesuit].
Jesuitically (adv.) In a jesuitical manner.
Jesuitism (n.) The principles and practices of the Jesuits.
Jesuitism (n.) Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
Jesuitism (n.) The theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic) [syn: Jesuitism, Jesuitry].
Jesuitocracy (n.) Government by
Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. [R.] -- C. Kingsley.
Jesuitry (n.) Jesuitism; subtle argument. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Jesuitry (n.) The theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic) [syn: Jesuitism, Jesuitry].
Jesus (n.) The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation. -- Luke i. 31.
Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins. -- Matt. i. 21.
Note: The form Jesu is often used, esp. in the vocative.
Jesu, do thou my soul receive. -- Keble.
The
Society of Jesus. The Roman Catholic order whose members are called Jesuits.
See Jesuit.
Jesus (n.) A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in
Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD
29) [syn: Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, the Nazarene, Jesus
Christ, Christ, Savior, Saviour, Good Shepherd, Redeemer, Deliverer].
Jesus (1.) Joshua, the son of Nun (Acts 7:45; Heb. 4:8; R.V., "Joshua").
Jesus (2.) A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus (Col. 4:11).
Je'sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish him from others so called, he is spoken of as "Jesus of Nazareth" (John 18:7), and "Jesus the son of Joseph" (John 6:42).
This is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua, which was originally Hoshea (Num. 13:8, 16), but changed by Moses into Jehoshua (Num. 13:16; 1 Chr. 7:27), or Joshua. After the Exile it assumed the form Jeshua, whence the Greek form Jesus. It was given to our Lord to denote the object of his mission, to save (Matt. 1:21).
The life of Jesus on earth may be divided into two great periods, (1) that of his private life, till he was about thirty years of age; and (2) that of his public life, which lasted about three years.
In the "fulness of time" he was born at Bethlehem, in the reign of the emperor Augustus, of Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter (Matt. 1:1; Luke 3:23; comp. John 7:42). His birth was announced to the shepherds (Luke 2:8-20). Wise men from the east came to Bethlehem to see him who was born "King of the Jews," bringing gifts with them (Matt. 2:1-12). Herod's cruel jealousy led to Joseph's flight into Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus, where they tarried till the death of this king (Matt. 2:13-23), when they returned and settled in Nazareth, in Lower Galilee (2:23; comp. Luke 4:16; John 1:46, etc.). At the age of twelve years he went up to Jerusalem to the Passover with his parents. There, in the temple, "in the midst of the doctors," all that heard him were "astonished at his understanding and answers" (Luke 2:41, etc.).
Eighteen years pass, of which we have no record beyond this, that he returned to Nazareth and "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man" (Luke 2:52).
He entered on his public ministry when he was about thirty years of age. It is generally reckoned to have extended to about three years. "Each of these years had peculiar features of its own. (1.) The first year may be called the year of obscurity, both because the records of it which we possess are very scanty, and because he seems during it to have been only slowly emerging into public notice. It was spent for the most part in Judea.
(2.) The second year was the year of public favour, during which the country had become thoroughly aware of him; his activity was incessant, and his frame rang through the length and breadth of the land. It was almost wholly passed in Galilee. (3.) The third was the year of opposition, when the public favour ebbed away.
His enemies multiplied and assailed him with more and more pertinacity, and at last he fell a victim to their hatred. The first six months of this final year were passed in Galilee, and the last six in other parts of the land.", Stalker's Life of Jesus Christ, p. 45.
The only reliable sources of information regarding the life of Christ on earth are the Gospels, which present in historical detail the words and the work of Christ in so many different aspects. (See CHIRST.)
Jesus, () Savior; deliverer.
Jet (n.) Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Jet (n.) (Min.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
Jet ant (Zool.), A blackish European ant ({Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
Jet (n.) A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
Jet (n.) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. -- Knight.
Jet propeller (Naut.), A device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.
Jet pump, A device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.
Jetted (imp. & p. p.) of Jet.
Jetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jet.
Jet (v. i.) To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.]
he jets under his advanced plumes! -- Shak.
To jet upon a prince's right. -- Shak.
Jet (v. i.) To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] -- Wiseman.
Jet (v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
Jet (v. t.) To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models jetted steam. -- Tennyson.
Jet (a.) Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty].
Jet (n.) An airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: jet, jet plane, jet-propelled plane].
Jet (n.) The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn: jet, squirt, spurt, spirt].
Jet (n.) A hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation.
Jet (n.) Atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward [syn: jet, blue jet, reverse lightning].
Jet (n.) Street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C].
Jet (n.) An artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain, jet].
Jet (v.) Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" [syn: jet, gush].
Jet (v.) Fly a jet plane.
JET, () Java Emitter Templates (Java, EMF)
JET, () Joint Engineering Team
Jet, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 230
Housing Units (2000): 149
Land area (2000): 0.308176 sq. miles (0.798171 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.308176 sq. miles (0.798171 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38000
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.666790 N, 98.181053 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73749
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Jet, OK
Jet
Jet-black (a.) Black as jet; deep black. See first jet.
Jet-black (a.) Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty].
Jets d'eau (n. pl. ) of Jet d'eau.
Jet d'eau () A stream of water spouting, esp. upward, from a fountain or pipe for ornament; also, the fountain or pipe from which it issues.
Jeterus (n.) (Bot.) A yellowness of the parts of plants which are normally green; yellows. Jetsam
Jetsam (n.) Alt. of Jetson.
Jetson (n.) (Mar. Law) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.
Jetson (n.) The act of throwing objects from a ship to lighten the load; jettison [1]. See Jettison, 1.
Jetson (n.) Hence: Anything thrown overboard from a ship, whether floating or not.
Jetson (n.) Hence: [fig.] Objects scattered about in a disorderly manner; as, he couldn't find his sneakers among the jetsam in his room. [Colloq.]
Jetsam (n.) The part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm.
Jetsam (n.) The floating wreckage of a ship [syn: flotsam, jetsam].
Jetteau (n.) See Jet d'eau. [R.] -- Addison.
Jettee (n.) See Jetty, n. -- Burke.
Jetter (n.) One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop. [Obs.] -- Palsgrave.
Jettiness (n.) The state of being jetty; blackness. -- Pennant.
Jettison (n.) (Mar. Law) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
Jettison (n.) See Jetsam, 1.
Jettison (v.) Throw away, of something encumbering.
Jettison (v.) Throw as from an airplane.
JETTISON, or JETSAM. () The casting out of a vessel, from necessity, a part of the lading; the thing cast out also bears the same name; it differs from flotsam in this, that in the latter the goods float, while in the former they sink, and remain under water; it differ; also from ligan. (q.v.)
JETTISON, or JETSAM. () The jettison must be made for sufficient cause, and not from groundless timidity. In must be made in a case of extremity, when the ship is in danger of perishing by the fury of a storm, or is laboring upon rocks or shallows, or is closely pursued by pirates or enemies.
JETTISON, or JETSAM. () If the residue of the cargo be saved by such sacrifice, the property saved is bound to pay a: proportion of, the loss. In ascertaining such average. loss, the goods lost and saved are both to be valued at the price they would have brought at the place of delivery, on the ship's arrival there, freight, duties and other charges being deducted. Marsh. Ins. 246; 3 Kent, Com. 185 to 187; Park. Ins., 123; Poth. Chartepartie, n. 108, et suiv; Boulay-Paty, Dr. Com. tit. 13; Pardessus, Dr. Com. n. 734; 1 Ware's R. 9.
Jetton (n.) A metal counter used in playing cards.
Jetty (a.) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
The people . . . are of a jetty. -- Sir T. Browne.
Jetties (n. pl. ) of Jetty.
Jetty (n.) (Arch.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
Jetty (n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
Jetty (n.) (Hydraul. Engin.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Jetty head (Naut.), A projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.
Jetty (v. i.) To jut out; to project. [Obs.] -- Florio.
Jetty (n.) A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away [syn: breakwater, groin, groyne, mole, bulwark, seawall, jetty].
Jeu d'esprit () A witticism.
Jew (n.) Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.
Jewbush (n.) A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (P. tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities.
Jewel (n.) An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.
Jewel (n.) A precious stone; a gem.
Jewel (n.) An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing.
Jewel (n.) A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby.
Jeweled (imp. & p. p.) of Jewel.
Jewelled () of Jewel.
Jeweling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jewel.
Jewelling () of Jewel.
Jewel (v. t.) To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels.
Jeweler (n.) One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments.
Jewellery (n.) See Jewelry.
Jewelry (n.) The art or trade of a jeweler.
Jewelry (n.) Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.
Jewelweed (n.) See Impatiens.
Jewess (fem.) A Hebrew woman.
Jewfish (n.) A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.
Jewfish (n.) A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish.
Jewfish (n.) The black grouper of Florida and Texas.
Jewfish (n.) A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.
Jewise (n.) Same as Juise.
Jewish (a.) Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish.
Jewry (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter.
Jew's-ear (n.) A species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judae, / Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the human ear.
Jew's-harp (n.) An instrument of music, which, when placed between the teeth, gives, by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger, a sound which is modulated by the breath; -- called also Jew's-trump.
Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.
Jew's-stone (n.) Alt. of Jewstone.
Jewstone (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.
Jezebel (n.) 以色列王Ahab (亞哈) 之妃 A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.
Jezebel 耶洗別，天主教譯為依則貝耳，是《舊約聖經》·〈列王紀上〉和〈列王紀下〉記載的負面人物，是以色列王國國王亞哈的王后，個性冷酷。她自稱是先知，有計劃的運用權勢使全以色列離棄上帝，去敬拜巴力。Is described in the Book of Kings (1 Kings 16:31) as a queen who was the daughter of Ithobaal I of Sidon and the wife of Ahab, King of Israel. [2]
According to the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and fabricated evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death. For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, Jezebel met a gruesome death -- thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs.
In the biblical story, Jezebel became associated with false prophets. In some interpretations, her dressing in finery and putting on makeup [3] led to the association of the use of cosmetics with "painted women" or prostitutes
Jharal (n.) A wild goat (Capra Jemlaica) which inhabits the loftiest mountains of India. It has long, coarse hair, forming a thick mane on its head and neck.
Jib (v. i.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.