Acajou :: Acajou (n.) The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew..

Acajou :: Acajou (n.) The mahogany tree; also, its timber..

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate..

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..

Adjournal :: Adjournal (n.) Adjournment; postponement.

Adjourned :: Adjourned (imp. & p. p.) of Adjour.

Adjourning :: Adjourning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjour.

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day..

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Bijou :: Bijou (n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Bijoutry :: Bijoutry (n.) Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc..

Bijoux :: Bijoux (pl. ) of Bijo.

Carcajou :: Carcajou (n.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene..

Jougs :: "Jougs (n.) An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke..

Jouissance :: Jouissance (n.) Jollity; merriment.

Jouk :: Jouk (v. i.) See Juke.

Joul :: Joul (v. t.) See Jowl.

Joule :: "Joule (n.) A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds..

Jounce :: "Jounce (v. t. & i.) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions..

Jounce :: Jounce (n.) A jolt; a shake; a hard trot.

Jounced :: Jounced (imp. & p. p.) of Jounc.

Jouncing :: Jouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jounc.

Journal :: Journal (a.) Daily; diurnal.

Journal :: Journal (a.) A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.

Journal :: "Journal (a.) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions..

Journal :: "Journal (a.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc..

Journal :: "Journal (a.) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk..

Journal :: "Journal (a.) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc..

Journal :: Journal (a.) That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.

Journal :: "Journal (a.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box..

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