Jump - JUMP, v.i.
1. To leap; to skip; to spring. Applied to men, it signifies to spring upwards or forwards with both feet, in distinction from hop, which signifies to spring with one foot. A man jumps over a ditch; a beast jumps over a fence. A man jumps upon a horse; a goat jumps from rock to rock.
2. To spring over any thing; to pass to at a leap.
Here, upon this bank and shelve of time,
We'd jump the life to come.
We see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
3. To bound; to pass from object to object; to jolt.
The noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots. Nahum 3.
4. To agree; to tally; to coincide.
In some sort it jumps with my humor.
[This use of the word is now vulgar, and in America, I think, is confined to the single phrase, to jump in judgment.
JUMP, v.t. To pass by a leap; to pass over eagerly or hastily; as, to jump a stream. [But over is understood.]
JUMP, n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
1. A lucky chance.
JUMP, n. A kind of loose or limber stays or waistcoat, worn by females.
JUMP, adv. Exactly; nicely.
Justify - JUST'IFY, v.t. [L. justus, just, and facio, to make.]
1. To prove or show to be just, or conformable to law, right, justice, propriety or duty; to defend or maintain; to vindicate as right. We cannot justify disobedience or ingratitude to our Maker. We cannot justify insult or incivility to our fellow men. Intemperance, lewdness, profaneness and dueling are in no case to be justified.
2. In theology, to pardon and clear form guilt; to absolve or acquit from guilt and merited punishment, and to accept as righteous on account of the merits of the Savior, or by the application of Christ's atonement to the offender.
3. To cause another to appear comparatively righteous, or less guilty than one's self. Ezek 16.
4. To judge rightly of.
Wisdom is justified by her children. Mat 11.
5. To accept as just and treat with favor. James 2.
JUST'IFY, v.i. In printing, to agree; to suit; to conform exactly; to form an even surface or true line with something else. Types of different sizes will not justify with each other.
Justle - JUS'TLE, v.i. jus'l. [See Jostle and Just.] To run against; to encounter; to strike against; to clash.
The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways. Nahum 2.
JUS'TLE, v.t. jus'l. To push; to drive; to force by rushing against; commonly followed by off or out; as, to justle a thing off the table, or out of its place.
Kindle - KIN'DLE, v.t. [L. accendo; from the root of candeo, caneo, to be light or white, to shine.]
1. To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to light; as, to kindle a fire.
2. To inflame, as the passions; to exasperate; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle resentment; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.
So is a contentious woman to kindle strife. Prov 26.
3. To bring forth.
KIN'DLE, v.i. To take fire; to begin to burn with flame. Fuel and fire well laid, will kindle without a bellows.
1. To begin to rage, or be violently excited; to be roused or exasperated.
It shall kindle in the thickets of the forest. Isa 9.
King - KING, n.
1. The chief or sovereign of a nation; a man invested with supreme authority over a nation,
tribe or country; a monarch. Kings are absolute monarchs, when they possess the powers of
government without control, or the entire sovereignty over a nation; they are limited
monarchs, when their power is restrained by fixed laws; and they are absolute, when they
possess the whole legislative, judicial, and executive power, or when the legislative or judicial
powers, or both, are vested in other bodies of men. Kings are hereditary sovereigns, when they
hold the powers of government by right of birth or inheritance, and elective, when raised to the
throne by choice.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
2. A sovereign; a prince; a ruler. Christ is called the king of his church. Psa 2
3. A card having the picture of a king; as the king of diamonds.
4. The chief piece in the game of chess.
King at arms, an officer in England of great antiquity, and formerly of great authority, whose
business is to direct the heralds, preside at their chapters, and have the jurisdiction of armory.
There are three kings at arms, vix.garter, clarencieux, and norroy. The latter [northroy]
officiates north of the Trent.
KING, v.t. In ludicrous language, to supply with a king, or to make royal; to raise to royalty.