Part 485

Nothing can justly be despised that can not justly be blamed: where there is no choice there can be no blame.

South.

Just"ness, n. The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.

In value the satisfaction I had in seeing it represented with all the justness and gracefulness of action.

Dryden.

Justness is properly applied to things, and justice to persons; but the distinction is not always observed.

Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; correctness; propriety; fitness; reasonableness; equity; uprightness; justice.

Jut (jt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.]

1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." Wordsworth.

It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.

Sir T. Browne.

2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." Mason.

Jut, n. 1. That which projects or juts; a projection.

2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.

Jute (jt), n. [Hind. jt, Skr. ja matted hair; cf. jaa matted hair, fibrous roots.] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.

Jutes (jts), n. pl. sing. Jute. (Ethnol.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

Jut"land*er (?), n. A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark.

Jut"land*ish, a. Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland.

Jut"ting (?), a. Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.

Jut"ty (?), n. [See Jetty, Jut, Jet.] A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty. Shak.

Jut"ty, v. t. & i. To project beyond. [Obs.] Shak.

Ju"ve*nal (?), n. [L. juvenalis youthful, juvenile, fr. juvenis young.] A youth. [Obs.] Shak.

Ju`ve*nes"cence (?), n. A growing young.

Ju`ve*nes"cent (?), a. [L. juvenescens, p. pr. of juvenescere to grow young again, from juvenis young.] Growing or becoming young.

Ju"ve*nile (?; 277), a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juvénile, juvénil. See Young.]

1. Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.

2. Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.

Syn. -- Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful.