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JESHURUN. 188 JEST. of the word, yashar, denotes "straight, upright,' and it seems to be a furniation designed as a sjinbolical play upon Israel, artificially separated into two elements, ysr (^yashar) and el. JESI, ya'ze, or lESI ( Lat. .Esis, ^Esium ) . A city in the Province of Ancona, Italy, 17 miles by rail southwest of the city of Ancona, on a hill beside the Esino (Map: Italy, II 4). It has mediaeval walls and a cathedral dedicated to the martyr Saint iSeptimius. the first Uishop of Jesi (308). There is a fifteenth-century city ball, once the convent church, 8an Floriano. .lesi was the birthplace of Kmperor Frederick II. and of the composer Pergolcsi. The composer .Spon- tini was born in a neighboring village. There are schools of music and design, a private female normal school, a gymnasium, several technical schools, a seminary, a city library, and various charitable institutions. The manufactures are paper, bricks, silk, wool, soap, watches, rope: and as the city is an important centre of local trade, there are many fairs. Wine and oil are marketed here. Population (commune), in I88I, 19,4(i2: in 1901, 22, .308. JESSAMINE. An ornamental shrub which bears fragrant flowers. See Jasmine. JESSAMY BRIDE, The. A name given to Wary Horneck, a relative of the artist Reynolds, and supposed to have Ix'Cn the object of Gold- smith's atTection. Four years after his death she married Colonel Gwyim. The word jessamy prob- ably represents jasmine, and is used to indicate the daintiness and grace of her person. The name is used as the title of a book by Frank Frankfort Moore I i.s;i7). JES'SANT (probably from OF. issaiit, pres. part, of issir, eisser, icsser, to issue, from Lat. exire, to go out, from ex, out + ire, to go). In heraldry, a term frequently used as synonymous with issuant, rising, as a demi-lion is often rep- resented doing, from the bottom line of a field, or upper line of an ordinary. .lessant is some- times used improperly for naissant. or rising from the middle of an ordinarj'. See Heraldry. JESSE, Edward ( 1780-18()8) . An Englisii writer on n.atural history, born at Hutton-Crans- wick, Yorkshire. He early showed a love of plants and animals, fostered by his places of resi- dence, Richmond and Bushey Parks, and he should be credited with much that was done to heautify Hampton Court. Though he was not a scientist, there is pleasant reading in his Glean- ings in yatiiral History (18.32) : A>i Angler's Rambles (1836); Scenes and Tales of Country Life (1844): Anecilotes of Dogs (1846): and Lectures on Xatural History (1861) : as well as his descriptions of jaunts to Hampton Court, Windsor, and Eton. He edited Walton's Com- plete Angler, and White's tSelborne, with a bio- graphical introduction. JESSE, .John Heneage (1815-74). An Eng- lish historical writer. He was educated at Eton and became an Admiralty clerk, but was devoted to literature early in life, and his first poem, "Mary Stuart." was published in 1831. He Avrote London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places (3 vols.. 1871). but made a specialty of memoirs, of which George the Third (3 vols.', 1867) was his best eflTort. The others include: The Court of Enaland During the Reign of the Stuarts (1840): The Court of England front the Revolution to the Death of George II. (3 vols., 1843) ; George ISelicyn and His Con- temporaries (4 vols., 1843) ; The Pretenders and Their Adherents (2 vols., 1845) ; Richard the Third and Home of Bis Contemporaries (1802) ; Celebrated Etonians (2 vols., 1875). JESSE, KiciiAKD Henry (1853—). An Ameri- can educator, born in Lancaster Count}', Va. He graduated at the State University in 1875, and the following year began his teaching career as master of French and mathematics at the Hanover (Virginia) Academy. .fter being principal of the high school at Princess Anue, .Md. (1876-78), he was at the University of Louisiana, New Orleans (1878-84), and when it was united with Tulane University in the same city he was made professor of Latin there until ISltl. when he became president of the University of Missouri. JES'SICA. Shylock's beautiful daughter, in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. She elopes with her lover, Lorenzo. JESSO, y6s's6. An island of Japan. See Yezo. JES'SOPP, Augustus ( 1824— ) . An English clergjmau and author, bom at .lbury Place, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Saint .John's College, Cambridge, was select preacher at Oxford in 1896, and held honorary fellowships at both universities. He began his clerical life as curate of Papworth Saint Agnes, Cambridgeshire (1848- 54) ; but was head master in Helston Grammar School, Cornwall, for four years, and in a Nor- wich academy for twenty before he was made rector of Scarning, Dereham, Norfolk, in 1879. His Xoruyich School Sermons were published in 1864, and he wrote afterwards: One Generation of a orfolk House (1878); History of the Diocese of Xorunch (1879); .irendy for Hetter for Worse (1881); The Coming of the Friars (1888); Before the Great Pillage (1901); and the biographies of Queen Elizabeth and some of the famous men of her time in the Dictionary of S'lilioniil Biography. JES'SUP, Henry Harris (I832-). An American Presbyterian missionary. He was born at Montrose. Pa., son of the jurist William Jes- sup (1797-1868); graduated at Yale in 1851 and at Union Theological Seminary in 1855; and immediately entered the foreign-missionary ser- vice of the Presbyterian Church in Tripoli. Syria. In 1860 he was transferred to Beirut, and be- came prominent at that important station. He wrote, besides various works for the American Mission Press at Beirut: The Women of the .Arabs (1873): The Mohammedan Missionary Problem (1879) : The Greek Church and Protest- ant Missions (1884) : and Kamil, a Moslem Con- vert (1899). JEST (OF. geste, exploit, tale of adventure, from ML. gesta, deed, from Lat. gestus, p.p. of gerere, to carrj' on ) . The word geste was used in Middle English to designate a story. A stage in the transition from story to humorous story and trick, and finally to witty saying, is marked by the geste of Robin Hood, narrating the shrewd practices of this oitlaw and his merry men. Though the word in its modern sense is of com- paratively recent date, the jest itself is of an- cient origin. Collections of jests passed from the East to the Greeks, then to the Romans, and