Word Meanings - JEJUNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. 2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. - Je*june"ly, adv. -- Je*june"ness, n. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• MATTER
  1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• EMPTY
  1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. 2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• JEJUNE
  1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. 2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. - Je*june"ly, adv. -- Je*june"ness, n. Bacon.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• BARRENWORT
  An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• LACKBRAIN
  One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• LACKEY
  An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar , the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• INTEREST
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• POLACK
  A Polander. Shak.
• SHOEBLACK
  One who polishes shoes.
• JET-BLACK
  Black as jet; deep black.
• BLACK-JACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
• BLACK LEAD
  Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• BRUNSWICK BLACK
  See BLACK