Chapter Judas Slits to Jumper of J by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Juliet Daughter of Lady Capulet, and "sweet sweeting" of Romeo, in Shakespeare's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. She has become a household word for a lady-love.

Julium Sidus The comet which appeared at the death of Julius Caesar, and which in court flattery was called the apotheosis of the murdered man.

July' The seventh month, named by Mark Antony, in honour of Julius Caesar, who was born in it.

Jumala The supreme idol of the ancient Finns and Lapps. The word is sometimes used by the Scandinavian poets for the Almighty.

"On a lonely cliff
An ancient shrine he found, of Jumala the seat,
For many a year gone by closed up and desolate."
Frithiof-Saga: The Reconciliation.

Jump To jump or to fit or unite with like a graft; as, both our inventions meet and jump in one. Hence the adverb exactly, precisely.

"Good advice is easily followed when it jumps with our own ... inclinations." - Lockhart: Sir Walter Scott, chap. x. p. 241

    The Scotch use jimp, as, "When she had been married jimp four months" (The Antiquary.)

Jump at an Offer (To). To accept eagerly.

Jump Over the Broomstick (To). To marry in an informal way. A "brom" is the bit of a bridle; to "jump the brom" is to skip over the marriage restraint, and "broomstick" is a mere corruption.

"A Romish wedding is surely better than jumping over broomstick." - G. A. Sala.

Jumper The longest jumper on record was Phayllos, who is accredited with jumping 55 feet. Half that length would be an enormous jump.
   A counter jumper. A draper's apprentice or employe, who is accustomed to jump over the shop counter to save the trouble and time of going round.