JOINT, "_jeopard a joint_" (R256,_d_)--"_t'adventure a_ _joint_" (R250,_c_), to take a risk or hazard, as of injury, loss, hanging, etc. "My ten duckets are like my ten fingers, they will not _jeopard a joynt_ for you."--Decker, _Fortunatus_ (1600), Works (1873), I. 153. JOLLY, "here is a _jolly_ jacket" (M31,_d_), bright, gay, splendid, in newest fashion. "_Jolye_ and gaye sadeles."--Wyclif, _Sel. Wks._ (_c_. 1380), III. 520. JUNCTLY, "marred _junctly_ together" (M16,_d_) jointly. JUNKERY, "a banket or a _junkery_" (N95,_c_), banquet, feast, junket: specifically a merrymaking accompanied by eating and drinking. "Pertrych and his felaw bere gret visage and kepe gret _junkeryes_ and dyneres."--_Paston Lett._ (1449), IV. 24 (1901). JURIS, see In. JUSTICES OF QUORUM (JE352,_d_). According to Mr. Craigie (_O.E.D., s.v._), _quorum_ was "originally certain justices of the peace, usually of eminent learning or ability, whose presence was necessary to constitute a bench; latterly the term was loosely applied to all justices." "The Justicez or _Justice_ _of the_ Pease of the _Quorum_ yn the same shire."--_Rolls_ _Parlt._ (1455), V. 334. I. JUSTITIA, (_a_) (R. _passim_), as a pertinent comment on the _motif_ of this play it may be remarked that the name _Justitia_ was (_O.E.D._) applied in the eleventh century in a general way to persons charged with the administration of the law, especially to the Sheriffs; it was subsequently limited to the president or one of the members of the Curia Regis, out of which the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer were developed: see previous entry. (_b_) _Just[ici]a tamen non luxit in nobis_ (R253,_b_), see _Book of Wisdom_ (_Sap._, 1, 15), where it reads, _Justitiæ lumen non luxit in nobis._ Mr. Magnus earmarks the mistake as "interesting, if, as is probable, the MS. is not the author's; it is the kind of miscopying which we might expect." KAYS, "where be my _kays_" (R184,_d_), this seemingly cockney Irish pronunciation of "key" is in truth the correct one, and was the standard down to the close of the seventeenth century. In M.E. the rhyme was with _day_, _play_, _say_, etc., and Dryden so employs it. On the other hand, early in the fifteenth century the (northern) spelling _kee_ was in vogue, from which it appears that the modern pronunciation _kee_ is of northern origin, but it is difficult to say how it came into general English use (_O.E.D._). KEEP, "_Keep_ your tail" (M21,_a_), _i.e._ keep it out of sight. KENT ... NORTHUMBERLAND, etc. (R254,_a_): see Respublica. KING, see Cat. KISS, see Courtesy.