Junket
(Jun"ket) n. [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush
basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate.]
1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
How Faery Mab the junkets eat.
Milton.
Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets.
Chapman. 2. A feast; an entertainment.
A new jaunt or junket every night.
Thackeray. Junket
(Jun"ket), v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; — sometimes applied opprobriously
to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
South. Junket
(Jun"ket), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] To give entertainment
to; to feast.
The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.
Walpole. Junketing
(Jun"ket*ing), n. A feast or entertainment; a revel.
All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally
famous with their modern successors.
W. Irving.
The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.
South. Junketries
(Jun"ket*ries) n. pl. Sweetmeats. [Obs.]
Juno
(Ju"no) n.; pl. Junos [L.]
1. (Rom. Myth.) The sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and the goddess who presided
over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera.
Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.
Shak. 2. (Astron.) One of the early discovered asteroids.
Bird of Juno, the peacock.
Junta
(Jun"ta) n.; pl. Juntas [Sp., fr. L. junctus joined, p. p. of jungere to join. See Join, and cf.
Junto.] A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.
Junto
(Jun"to) n.; pl. Juntos [Sp. junto united. See Junta.] A secret council to deliberate on affairs
of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of
ministers; a junto of politicians.
The puzzling sons of party next appeared,
In dark cabals and mighty juntos met.
Thomson. Jupartie
(Jup"ar*tie) n. Jeopardy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Jupati palm
(Ju`pa*ti" palm`) (Bot.) A great Brazilian palm tree used by the natives for many purposes.
