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journe 233 justesse
Journfce, homme de , day laborer;
d'hopital, (mil.) day in hospital;
de marche, (mil) distance marched in a day
(24 kilometers in France, but this is not fixed),
day's march;
outraged la , journey work;
ft petitcs s, by easy marches;
de presence, (mil.) day of presence for
duty (present, en route to join, on mission);
de route, (mil.) day en route;
de sejour, (Fr. a.) day of travel passed in a
given spot;
de solde, (mil.) day of pay (i. e., day of duty
entitling one to pay);
tenir la , (siege) of a besieged place, to agree
to surrender by a Jumelle, - grosse a field glass magnifying
6 or 7 times;
-s-longues-vucs, telescopic field glass;
--lorgnon, small field glass;
lunette--
, telescope field glass;
-s de sonnette, guides of a pile driver;
--telemetre, (mil.) field-glass range finder.
jument,
given day unless before
succored (obs.);
de travail, working day (10 hours in
France).
joyeux, m. pi., (mil. slang) men of the bataillon
d'Afrique.
juchfc, p. p., perched;
chcval , (hipp.) a horse whose pastern joint
is too far forward; horse up on his toes.
juge, m,, judge, tribunal; (Fr. mil. law) member
of a court-martial or court of revision (not
the president);
consulaire, judge for the trial of commercial
cases;
d' instruction, magistrate, examining magis-
f., (hipp.) mare;
coupcr une- , to spay; - poulinttre, brood mare; - vide, unimpregnated mare.
jumenterie, f., (hipp.) a breeding establishment
for the special purpose of producing
stallions (Arab and Anglo-Arab stallions in
France).
Jupiter, m., Jupiter;
trait de- & clef, joggled and wedged scarf;
trait de - & joints droiis, scarf with parallel
joints and tabling;
trait de - & joints: droits et h clef, scarf with
parallel joints and a table on each side;
trait desimple,
tabled scarf.
Jure, m.. (law) juryman (any Frenchman 30 years
of age may be sworn to take part in the tnal of
any matter, civil 01 criminal).
Juridiction, f., (law) jurisdiction; - administrative, the legal power to settle all
differences between the government and private
individuals; - civile, civil jurisdiction; - militaire, military jurisdiction (comprises,
in France, the corps commander, the minister
of war, and the council of state).
trate;
de paix, justice of the peace.
jug6, p. p., affaire, chose, e,
ter;
a settled mat-
au , by judgment, by guess.
jugement, m., (law) judgment; trial; sentence,
finding, verdict; (in gen.) opinion;
appeler d'un to , appeal from a verdict;
arbitral, award;
casser un to , quash a verdict;
par contumace, judgment in contempt;
par defaut, judgment by default;
faire passer en , to bring up for trial, send
before a court;
infirmer un v. casser un , ;
mettre en to , bring to trial;
militaire, sentence of a court-martial;
mise en , arraignment;
passer en , to be brought up for trial;
prononcer un , to give judgment, to pass
sentence;
rcndre un , to pass judgment, to sentence.
juger, v. a., (law) to judge, try, put on trial; to
sentence; to give judgment; (in gen.) to decide,
to act as umpire;
se , (man.) of a horse, to cover, check, his
,
juridique, a., legal.
juridiquement, adv., legally.
Jurisprudence, f., jurisprudence.
jury, m., (tow) jury (criminal cases only); board
or commission charged with special functions
(e. g., in an exposition); - d'accusation, (law) grand jury (does not exist
in France);
steps (to plant the hind in the track of the
fore feet).
jugulaire, f., (unif.) chin strap (of a helmet,
foragecap);
L-& coulisse, sliding chin strap;
d'ecailles, helmet scale;
fausse. , dummy, false, chin strap (i. e., not
used to hold on the cap or helmet).
jumart, m., jumart, hinny.
junieau, a., twin; (mach.) double (generally
jumelage, m., (pont.) overlapping and lashing
together of balks in the same row.
jumeler, v. a., to assemble and join two similar
objects; to strengthen by means of
cheeks, sidepieces; to fish; (pont.) to make a
jumelage, q. v.
jumelle, f., cheek, sidepiece, fish; field glass,
opera glass (used also in plural); paved side
of a gutter next to the road; (artif.) twin
rockets (with one stick); (in pi.) in various
applications,
similar pieces symmetrically
disposed -(as the bearers of a lathe); cheeks,
sidepieces, uprights;
de bau, clamp of a beam;
contre , paved side of a chcfdu-
, (law) foreman of the jury;
dresser la liste du-
, (law) to empanel a jury;
- d'etat departmental,
in France, a jury passing
on the claim of young mechanics (ouvriers
d'art) to be exempted from two years of military
service; - d' expropriation, a jury to condemn land;
- d'honneur, in the German army, a board
of officers passing on affairs of honor, with a
view to prevent duels; - de jugement, (law)
gutter farthest from
the road;
& glaces, field glass fitted with mirrors in
front so as to reflect objects to the right and
the left of the observer;
trial jury.
jusant, m., ebb, ebb tide, ebb of the tide;
commencement du- first , quarter of the ebb;
de- on the , ebb, during the ebb;
direction du- set of the , ebb; - etale, slack ebb;
etale du- slack of the , ebb;
fin du- . last quarter of the ebb;
- etflux, ebb and flood;
mi-- , half ebb.
Juste, a., just, legitimate; exact; correct, right;
accurate (as a gait, a firearm, a marksman,
target practice); tight, close-fitting; too tight,
too short, too narrow; (cord.) tight, close-fitting
(as a rope in a block); (tech.) true;
cheval- a horse of , regular and steady gaits;
tir-
, (art. sm. a.) accurate fire, practice.
Justesse, f., justness, exactness; accuracy; (tech.)
accuracy of fit, truth; (ball.) accuracy,
precision; - d'une arme ft feu, (ball.) precision of a firearm
(according to some authorities, justesse
should be said only of fire, and precision of
a firearm);
epreuve de- , (ball.) accuracy trial;
- de tir, (ball.) accuracy of fire (according
to some authorities, the accuracy of fire obtained
under ordinary conditions, as distinguished
from precision, accuracy under selected
conditions);
tir de -. (ball.) accuracy trials to determine the
precision of a firearm;