<B>jugful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> as much as a jug can hold. </DL>
<A NAME="juggedhare">
<B>jugged hare,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> hare stewed or simmered in a jug or casserole. </DL>
<A NAME="juggernaut">
<B>Juggernaut, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an idol of the Hindu god Krishna, pulled around on a huge car. Devotees of the god are said to have thrown themselves under the wheels to be crushed to death. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) Also, <B>juggernaut.</B> <DD><B> a. </B>something to which a person blindly devotes himself or is cruelly sacrificed. <BR> <I>Ex. that remorseless juggernaut--"the needs of man" (Thomas A. Edison).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a frightening, invisible machine, force, or other agent, that destroys anything in its path. <DD><B> 3. </B>(British.) <B>juggernaut,</B> a large, heavy vehicle, especially a heavy truck. </DL>
<A NAME="juggins">
<B>juggins, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) a simpleton. </DL>
<A NAME="juggle">
<B>juggle, </B>verb, <B>-gled,</B> <B>-gling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to do tricks that require skill of hand or eye. <BR> <I>Ex. He juggled with knives by balancing them on his nose.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to play tricks; use trickery. <BR> <I>Ex. It sidesteps burning issues in order to juggle with words (London Times). She never juggles or plays tricks with her understanding (Charles Lamb).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to do tricks with. <BR> <I>Ex. He can juggle three balls, keeping them in the air at one time.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to change by trickery or as if by trickery. <BR> <I>Ex. The dishonest cashier juggled the store's accounts to hide his thefts.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to deceive; trick; cheat. <BR> <I>Ex. He juggled his brother out of his share of the farm that they had inherited.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) to weigh or balance mentally. <BR> <I>Ex. Juggling these imponderables, one guess on the timing would be the last week in September (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of juggling. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a trick; deception; fraud. <BR> <I>Ex. The Opposition ... declared the whole transaction to be a mere juggle (William E. H. Lecky).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="juggler">
<B>juggler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who can do juggling tricks. <BR> <I>Ex. After dinnercomes in a juggler which showed us very pretty tricks (Samuel Pepys).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person who uses tricks, deception, or fraud. <BR> <I>Ex. The Sophist ... is proved to be a dissembler and juggler with words (Benjamin Jowett).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jugglery">
<B>jugglery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gleries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the skill or tricks of a juggler; sleight of hand. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) trickery; deception; fraud. </DL>
<A NAME="jughead">
<B>jughead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a foolish individual; dolt. </DL>
<A NAME="juglandaceous">
<B>juglandaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the walnut family. </DL>
<B>Jugoslavian</B> or <B>Jugo-Slavian, </B>adjective, noun. =Yugoslavian.</DL>
<A NAME="jugular">
<B>jugular, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of the neck or throat. <BR> <I>Ex. a jugular vein, a jugular process.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of a jugular vein. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) aiming for the jugular vein; cutthroat; murderous. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] will not get far in the jugular combat of national politics without a more lionlike approach (Tom Wicker). This journalism ... was gaudy and freewheeling. The competition was jugular (Alden Whitman).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>having the ventral fins at the throat, in front of the pectoral fins <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=jugular vein.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the most vulnerable point of an opponent. <BR> <I>Ex. To the Liberal old guard, he was an apolitical do-gooder, with no instinct for the jugular (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jugularvein">
<B>jugular vein,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the four large veins in the head and neck that return blood from the head and neck toward the heart. </DL>
<A NAME="jugulate">
<B>jugulate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-lated,</B> <B>-lating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to stop the course of (a disease or similar process) by extreme measures. <DD><B> 2. </B>to cut the throat of; kill. </DL>
<A NAME="jugulum">
<B>jugulum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the lower front part of the neck in birds. <DD><B> 2. </B>a corresponding part in insects. </DL>
<A NAME="jugum">
<B>jugum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Entomology.) a small projection or lobe on the forewing of certain lepidopterous insects, which extends under the base of the hind wing and holds the two wings together in flight. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Botany.) a pair of leaflets in a pinnate leaf. </DL>
<A NAME="juice">
<B>juice, </B>noun, verb, <B>juiced,</B> <B>juicing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the liquid part of fruits, vegetables, and meats. <BR> <I>Ex. the juice of a lemon, meat juice.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a fluid in the body. The juices of the stomach help to digest food. <DD><B> 3. </B>any extracted liquid. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) the essence or spirit of anything. <BR> <I>Ex. It is not realism which is the juice of Mr. Williams' evening (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Slang.) electricity. <BR> <I>Ex. The one atom-powered electricity-producing operation in the U.S. ... makes "juice" only on a small scale as a by-product (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Slang.) gasoline. <DD><B> 7. </B>(U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>alcoholic liquor. <DD><B> b. </B>a usurious loan or loans. <DD><B> c. </B>favorable standing; position, power, or influence. <BR> <I>Ex. "The important thing now is I got juice as an actor," McQueen went on. "That means you choose your material, you pick your situations" (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> d. </B>methadone (because it is usually given with fruit juice). <BR> <I>Ex. Don't resort to street slang [such as] "I've got to pick up my juice" (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to remove the juice of. <BR> <I>Ex. We juiced a dozen oranges.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to add juice to. <BR> <I>Ex. to juice a roast, to juice an electric circuit.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>juice up,</B> (Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>to brighten up; enliven. </I> <I>Ex. ... has added a Swiss chef to the payroll to juice up its menus (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to refuel. <BR><I>expr. <B>stew in one's own juice,</B> </I>(Informal.) to suffer the consequence of one's actions. <BR> <I>Ex. As Mr. Smith ... cannot be brought to see reason, so he should be left to stew in his own juice with existing sanctions taking their slow toll (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="juicebox">
<B>juice box,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a paper container that holds a single portion of juice. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>juice man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a person who lends money at exorbitant interest rates; a loan shark. </DL>
<A NAME="juicer">
<B>juicer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kitchen appliance used to extract juice from fruits and vegetables. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) an electrician in charge of the lighting of a studio or stage setting. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a heavy drinker of alcoholic liquor. </DL>
<A NAME="juicy">
<B>juicy, </B>adjective, <B>juicier,</B> <B>juiciest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>full of juice; having much juice. <BR> <I>Ex. a juicy orange.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) full of interest; lively; spicy. <BR> <I>Ex. His quotations are pert and juicy (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) (of art) having a rich color or texture. adv. <B>juicily.</B> noun <B>juiciness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="jujitsu">
<B>jujitsu, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Japanese way of wrestling, or of fighting without weapons, that uses the strength and weight of an opponent to his disadvantage; judo. Also, <B>jiujitsu,</B> <B>jiujutsu,</B> <B>jujutsu.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="juju">
<B>juju, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an amulet; fetish. <DD><B> 2. </B>among West African native tribes: <DD><B> a. </B>the magical power of such an object. <DD><B> b. </B>a ban or spell effected by it. <DD><B> c. </B><B>=jujuism.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a form of African music influenced by jazz and rock, played with a variety of percussion instruments. <BR> <I>Ex. Juju is only the newest--and most exotic--black rhythm to captivate white listeners (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jujube">
<B>jujube, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a lozenge or small tablet of gummy candy. <DD><B> 2. </B>an edible, datelike fruit of an Old World shrub or tree of the buckthorn family, used to flavor this candy. <DD><B> 3. </B>a jelly made from this fruit. <DD><B> 4. </B>the shrub or tree which bears this fruit. </DL>
<A NAME="jujuism">
<B>jujuism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the system of beliefs connected with jujus. </DL>
<A NAME="jujutsu">
<B>jujutsu, </B>noun. =jujitsu.</DL>
<A NAME="juke">
<B>juke, </B>noun, verb, <B>juked,</B> <B>juking.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=jukebox.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>jukebox music. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> (Sports.) to fake (a movement or play); fake out. </DL>
<A NAME="jukebox">
<B>jukebox, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an automatic phonograph that plays records for money deposited in the coin slot. The records to be played are selected by pushing a button. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or like a jukebox. <BR> <I>Ex. the jukebox trade.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jukejoint">
<B>juke joint,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a tavern, roadhouse, or cheap cafe where music is furnished by a jukebox. <DD><B> 2. </B>a roadhouse where liquor is sold. </DL>
<A NAME="jukes">
<B>Jukes, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> the fictitious name of a New York family whose history showed a great amount of disease, poverty, and criminality, used in sociological studies. </DL>
