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Just   /dʒəst/  /dʒɪst/   Listen
adverb
Just  adv.  
1.
Precisely; exactly; in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated. "And having just enough, not covet more." "The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast." "To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one."
2.
Closely; nearly; almost. "Just at the point of death."
3.
Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late. "A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail."
Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.


adjective
Just  adj.  
1.
Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; said both of persons and things. "O just but severe law!" "There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." "Just balances, just weights,... shall ye have." "How should man be just with God?" "We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright."
2.
Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference. "Just of thy word, in every thought sincere." "The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies." "He was a comely personage, a little above just stature." "Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat." "When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array." "Their names alone would make a just volume."
3.
Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge. "Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves."
Just intonation. (Mus.)
(a)
The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch.
(b)
The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament.
Synonyms: Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.


noun
Just  n.  A joust.


Joust  n.  
1.
A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field. (Written also just) "Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament."
2.
Hence: Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.


verb
Just  v. i.  To joust.


Joust  v. i.  
1.
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. (Written also just) "For the whole army to joust and tourney."
2.
Hence: To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.





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... lurais homoion]], both fame and disfame. The latter seem to have corresponded with the witch-doctors of the Kaffir tribes, deriving auguries from the dying struggles of their victims (frequently human), just as the Basuto medicine-men tortured oxen to death to prognosticate the issue of the war between Great Britain and the Boers in South Africa. Strabo, in the next generation, also mentions together these three classes, Bards, Seers [[Greek: Ouateis] Vates] and Druids. The ...
— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare
... have fetched grand prices this year. Early in the season we sold them to Birmingham at tenpence apiece wholesale, with carriage and other expenses on the top of that. Better price than the pollock? Well, that fish is not very good just now. Sometimes it fetches six shillings a dozen fish, nearly sixpence each. No, not much for twelve or fourteen pounds of good fish. Half-a-crown a dozen is more usual. There's no demand. Yes, they're cheap to-day. A dozen ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... enlarging offers the best opportunities for successful dodging and modification. We can cut our light down and take all the time we want, or we can take as little time as we want. A hand, a finger, a slip of paper, or anything within reach, will suffice to shade the light just as we want it. In this connection it is well to always hold the shade nearer the lens than the easel, as greater diffusion results and there is less danger of sharp lines. In shading a foreground to bring up a dense sky, ...
— Bromide Printing and Enlarging • John A. Tennant
... which is so far removed from the East as to be meaningless to the masses. The deep, underlying, decisive influence was simply expediency—the most subtle of all political reasons and the hardest to define. But just as Britain declared war because the invasion of Belgium brought to a head all the vague grounds for opposition to German policy; and just as America broke off relations because the scrapping of undertaking after undertaking ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale
... and upon the inner side of this gate the Lieutenant was to wait until his fiancee should steal forth bringing with her the key which should give access to the beach. It was all very foolish and romantic, no doubt, for they might have met just as conveniently in the conservatory of Clyffe House, where their privacy would have been equally respected, and where Miss Alix's satin shoes and diaphanous draperies would have exposed her to no risk of a chill. Lovers are like that, however, and had they not been so on this occasion, I should ...
— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various


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