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   Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
         n 1: French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories
               (1844-1924) [syn: {France}, {Anatole France}, {Jacques
               Anatole Francois Thibault}]

English Dictionary: Jeschkengebirge by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jacques Marquette
n
  1. French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)
    Synonym(s): Marquette, Jacques Marquette, Pere Jacques Marquette
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jacques Monod
n
  1. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)
    Synonym(s): Monod, Jacques Monod, Jacques Lucien Monod
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jesse James
n
  1. United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
    Synonym(s): James, Jesse James
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jessica Mitford
n
  1. United States writer (born in England) who wrote on American culture (1917-1996)
    Synonym(s): Mitford, Jessica Mitford, Jessica Lucy Mitford
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jocoseness
n
  1. the trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Josiah Quincy
n
  1. American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
    Synonym(s): Quincy, Josiah Quincy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
juke joint
n
  1. a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
    Synonym(s): juke, jook, juke joint, jook joint, juke house, jook house
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jockeyism \Jock"ey*ism\, n.
      The practice of jockeys.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jocose \Jo*cose"\, a. [L jocosus, fr. jocus joke. See {Joke}.]
      Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding
      in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
  
               To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with
               an adversary.                                          --Shaftesbury.
  
               All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded.
                                                                              --I. Watts.
  
      Syn: Jocular; facetious; witty; merry; pleasant; waggish;
               sportive; funny; comical. -- {Jo*cose"ly}, adv. --
               {Jo*cose"ness}, n.
  
                        Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak
                        jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with
                        levity.                                          --Broome.
  
                        He must beware lest his letter should contain
                        anything like jocoseness; since jesting is
                        incompatible with a holy and serious life.
                                                                              --Buckle.
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