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Josiah Quincy
- noun - American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
- American patriot who presented the colonists'' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
Joule's Cycle
- - The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is eqal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.
Journey-Bated
- - Worn out with journeying.
Jovian Planet
- noun - any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
Joylessnesses
- noun - a feeling of dismal cheerlessness
Judas-Colored
- - Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Judeo-Spanish
- noun - the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
Judgement Day
- noun - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
- (New Testament) day of the Last Judgment when God will decree the fates of all men according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
Judgment Lien
- noun - lien on a debtor''s property that is granted to a creditor by court judgment; lien may be enforced by having the sheriff seize the property and hold a sheriff''s sale
- lien on a debtor's property that is granted to a creditor by court judgment; lien may be enforced by having the sheriff seize the property and hold a sheriff's sale
Judicial Sale
- noun - a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court''s writ of execution in order satisfy and unpaid obligation
- a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation