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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: judge advocate - jug band</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="judgeadvocate"> judge advocate, pl. judge advocates or judges advocate.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (U.S.) an officer who acts as a prosecutor at a court-martial. <DD> 2. (British.) a person appointed to manage the proceedings of a court-martial and to advise it on points of law. (Abbr:) JA (no periods) or J.A. </DL> <A NAME="judgeadvocategeneral"> judge advocate general, pl. judge advocate generals, judge advocates general, or judges advocate general,<DL COMPACT><DD> an officer in the armed forces who has general charge of the legal matters of his service. </DL> <A NAME="judgement"> judgement, noun. =judgment.</DL> <A NAME="judges"> Judges, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a book of the Old Testament dealing with the period in Jewish history between the death of Joshua and Saul's accession to the throne, when Israel was ruled by judges or magistrates. (Abbr:) Judg. </DL> <A NAME="judgeship"> judgeship, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the position, duties, or term of office of a judge. Ex. He handed the Senate his list of nominations for permanent judgeships (Time). </DL> <A NAME="judgmatic"> judgmatic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) showing good judgment; judicious; discerning. Ex. Each essay is limited to a single page; their range is wide, their elucidation concise and judgmatic (Atlantic). adv. judgmatically. </DL> <A NAME="judgmatical"> judgmatical, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) judgmatic. Ex. A judgmatical rap over the head stiffened the lying impostor for a time (James Fenimore Cooper). </DL> <A NAME="judgment"> judgment, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. an opinion; estimate. Ex. In my judgment, she is prettier than her sister. (SYN) estimation, belief. <DD> b. the forming of an opinion or conclusion. Ex. To judge rightly of the present, we must oppose it to the past; for all judgment is comparative (Samuel Johnson). <DD> 2. the power to judge well; good sense. Ex. Solomon was a man of judgment. Since she has judgment in such matters, we will ask her. My salad days, when I was green in judgment (Shakespeare). <DD> 3. the act of judging. Ex. Be not faint-hearted when thou sittest in judgment (Ecclesiasticus 4:9). <DD> 4a. a decision, decree, or sentence given by a judge or court. <DD> b. a debt arising from the decision of a judge or court. <DD> c. the official certificate recording such a decision. <DD> 5. a decision made by anybody who judges. <DD> 6. criticism; condemnation. Ex. Do not pass judgment on your neighbors. I will utter my judgments against them ... who have forsaken me (Jeremiah 1:16). <DD> 7. a misfortune thought of as a punishment from God. Ex. The neighbors considered his broken leg as a judgment on him for staying away from church. <DD> 8. the final trial of all mankind at the end of the world; Last Judgment. <DD> 9. (Archaic,) justice; righteousness. Ex. Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed (Isaiah 1:17). <DD> Also, judgement. expr. the Judgment, =judgment day. Ex. The valley of Cedron ... where the ... Judgment shall be (George Sandys). </DL> <A NAME="judgmental"> judgmental, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with judgment. Ex. a judgmental attitude. </DL> <A NAME="judgmentday"> judgment day or Judgment Day,<DL COMPACT><DD> the day of God's final judgment of mankind at the end of the world; doomsday. </DL> <A NAME="judgmentdebt"> judgment debt,<DL COMPACT><DD> a debt resulting from a legal decision. </DL> <A NAME="judgmentseat"> judgment seat,<DL COMPACT><DD> the seat from which judgment is made. </DL> <A NAME="judicable"> judicable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> capable of being judged; liable to be judged. Also, judiciable. </DL> <A NAME="judicare"> judicare, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a government-sponsored program providing free legal services to the poor. Ex. For all the arguments over the pros and cons of judicare, there is agreement that too many of the nation's poor still go without legal help (Time). </DL> <A NAME="judicative"> judicative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> judicial. Ex. a judicative authority. </DL> <A NAME="judicatory"> judicatory, adjective, noun, pl. -ries.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of the administration of justice; judicial. Ex. judicatory authority. <DD>noun 1. the administration of justice. <DD> 2. a court of justice; tribunal. </DL> <A NAME="judicature"> judicature, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the administration of justice. Ex. Judicature is nothing else but an interpretation of the law (Thomas Hobbes). <DD> 2. the position, duties, or authority of a judge. <DD> 3. the extent of jurisdiction of a judge or court. <DD> 4. a group of judges. <DD> 5. a court of justice; tribunal. </DL> <A NAME="judiciable"> judiciable, adjective. =judicable.</DL> <A NAME="judicial"> judicial, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of judges; having to do with a law court or the administration of justice. Ex. a judicial decision, judicial districts. The Constitution of the United States provides for the division of government among an executive, legislative, and judicial branch. <DD> 2. of or suited to a judge; impartial; fair. Ex. A judicial mind considers both sides of a dispute fairly before making a decision. <DD> 3. ordered, permitted, or enforced by a judge or court. Ex. a judicial sale. She got a judicial separation from her husband. <DD> 4. forming or expressing a judgment. <DD> 5. (Theology.) inflicted by God as a judgment or punishment. adv. judicially. </DL> <A NAME="judicialastrology"> judicial astrology,<DL COMPACT><DD> a branch of astrology dealing with the prediction of earthquakes, plagues, wars, and other historical or natural events. </DL> <A NAME="judicialreview"> judicial review,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the process by which a court or system of courts decide on the constitutionality of a legislative act or an executive order. Ex. Judicial review confines the state and national governments within their constitutional limits (William G. Carleton). </DL> <A NAME="judiciary"> judiciary, noun, pl. -aries, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the branch of government that administers justice; system of courts of justice of a country. Ex. organized ... into legislative, executive, and judiciary (Thomas Jefferson). <DD> 2. the judges of a country, state, or city; judicature. <DD>adj. of or having to do with courts, judges, or the administration of justice; judicial. Ex. Court cases are judiciary proceedings. </DL> <A NAME="judicious"> judicious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having, using, or showing good judgment; wise; sensible. Ex. A judicious parent encourages his children to decide many things for themselves. A judicious historian selects and weighs facts carefully and critically. (SYN) prudent, astute, discreet. adv. judiciously. noun judiciousness. </DL> <A NAME="judith"> Judith, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a Hebrew woman who saved her countrymen by killing the Assyrian general Holofernes. <DD> 2. a book of the Apocrypha and of the Douay Version of the Bible that relates her story. (Abbr:) Jth. </DL> <A NAME="judo"> judo, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =jujitsu. <DD> 2. a modern form of jujitsu practiced as a sport or as self-defense. </DL> <A NAME="judogi"> judogi, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a loose, white cotton jacket and trousers worn by judo wrestlers, with a sash whose color varies with the degree of the wearer's expertness. </DL> <A NAME="judoist"> judoist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a student of or expert in judo. </DL> <A NAME="judoka"> judoka, noun, pl. -ka or -kas.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who practices judo; judo wrestler. </DL> <A NAME="judoman"> judoman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> a judo wrestler; judoka. </DL> <A NAME="judy"> Judy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the wife of Punch in a Punch-and-Judy show. </DL> <A NAME="judy"> judy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) a girl. </DL> <A NAME="jug"> jug (1), noun, verb, jugged, jugging.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a container for holding liquids. A jug usually has a spout or a narrow neck and a handle. <DD> 2. the contents of a jug; jugful. Ex. a jug of warm water (Dickens). <DD> 3. (Slang.) a prison or jail. Ex. They sentenced me ... to ten years in the Jug (James Russell Lowell). <DD> 4. (Slang.) the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine. <DD>v.t. 1. (Slang.) to jail; imprison. Ex. He was the justice of the peace that jugged me for a vagrant (Mark Twain). <DD> 2. to stew or boil (especially a rabbit or hare) in a jug. </DL> <A NAME="jug"> jug (2), intransitive verb, jugged, jugging.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to nestle together, as partridges. <DD> 2. to collect in a covey. </DL> <A NAME="jug"> jug (3), noun, verb, jugged, jugging.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a sound uttered by the nightingale and some other birds. <DD>v.i. to utter the sound. </DL> <A NAME="jugal"> jugal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the bony arch of the cheek; zygomatic. </DL> <A NAME="jugalbone"> jugal bone,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the cheekbone in man. Ex. The jugal bone is the principal bone of the cheek. <DD> 2. a corresponding bone in other vertebrate animals. </DL> <A NAME="jugate"> jugate, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. (Biology.) occurring in pairs; connected; yoked, as a pinnate leaf in which the leaflets are in pairs. <DD> 2. (of impressions stamped on coins) placed side by side. <DD>noun 1. a jugate impression on a coin. <DD> 2. (U.S.) a button pairing the pictures of a Presidential candidate and his running mate. </DL> <A NAME="jugband"> jug band,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a musical band that uses improvised instruments, such as jugs, pans, pots, and washboards, for playing hillbilly music. </DL> <A HREF="jugeared.dic">NEXT</A>