Juggler to Juncture
Juggler
(Jug"gler) n. [OE. jogelour, juglur, OF. jogleor, jugleor, jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator
a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. Jongleur,
Joculator.]
1. One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.
Shak.
Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them.
Sir T. Browne. 2. A deceiver; a cheat. Shak.
Juggleress
(Jug"gler*ess), n.
1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
Jugglery
(Jug"gler*y) n. [OE. & OF. joglerie, F. jonglerie.]
1. The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.
2. Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.
Juggling
(Jug"gling) a. Cheating; tricky. — Jug"gling*ly, adv.
Juggling
(Jug"gling), n. Jugglery; underhand practice.
Juggs
(Juggs) n. pl. See Jougs. [Scot.]
Juglandin
(Jug"lan*din) n. [L. juglans, -andis, a walnut: cf. F. juglandine.] (Chem.) An extractive matter
contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also
as a black hair dye.
Juglandine
(Jug"lan*dine) n. An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut
Juglans
(||Jug"lans) n. [L., walnut.] (Bot.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe,
and the America black walnut, and butternut.
Juglone
(Ju"glone) n. [L. juglans the walnut + -one.] (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance resembling
quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); — called also nucin.
Jugular
(Ju"gu*lar) a. [L. jugulum the collar bone, which joins together the shoulders and the breast,
the throat, akin to jungere to yoke, to join: cf. F. jugulaire. See Join.]
1. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein. (b) Of or pertaining to the
jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen.
2. (Zoöl.) Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; — said of certain fishes.
Jugular
(Ju"gu*lar), n. [Cf. F. jugulaire. See Jugular, a.]
1. (Anat.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief
trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; — called also the jugular vein.
2. (Zoöl.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one
of a division of fishes
