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<syn>Syn. -- To sneer; scoff; flout; gibe; mock.</syn>

<h1>Jeer</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jeer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.</def>

<blockquote>And if we can not <b>jeer</b> them, we <b>jeer</b> ourselves. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jeer</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jeer</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.</def>

<blockquote>Midas, exposed to all their <b>jeers</b>, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jeerer</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jeer"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.</def>

<h1>Jeering</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jeer"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Mocking; scoffing.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A mocking utterance.</def></def2> -- <wordforms><wf>Jeer"ing*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Jeers</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jeers</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>See 1st <er>Jeer</er> <sd>(b)</sd>.</def>

<h1>Jeffersonia</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jef`fer*so"ni*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. Named after Thomas <ets>Jefferson</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (<spn>Jeffersonia diphylla</spn>); twinleaf.</def>

<h1>Jeffersonian</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jef`fer*so"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines.</def>

<i>Lowell.</i>

<h1>Jeffersonite</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jef"fer*son*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Named after Thomas <ets>Jefferson</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.</def>

<h1>Jeg</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Jeg</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>See <er>Jig</er>, 6.</def>

<h1>Jehovah</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Je*ho"vah</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Heb. usually <ets>y&ecr;h&omac;v\'beh</ets> (with the vowel points of <ets>&acr;d&omac;n\'bei</ets> Lord), sometimes (to avoid repetition) <ets>y&ecr;h&omac;vih</ets> (with the vowel points of <ets>&ecr;l&omac;h\'c6m</ets> God); but only the four Heb, consonants <ets>yhvh</ets> are conceded to be certainly known.]</ety> <def>A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.</def>

<h1>Jehovist</h1> <Xpage=798>

<hw>Je*ho"vist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who maintains that the vowel points of the word <i>Jehovah</i>, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to <i>adonist</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled <i>Jehovah</i>. See <er>Elohist</er>.</def>

<blockquote>The characteristic manner of the <b>Jehovist</b> differs from that of his predecessor [the Elohist]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration. <i>S. Davidson.</i></blockquote>