1. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events. Specifically:
(a) (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed
and grouped statement of the daily transactions. (b) (Naut.) A daily
register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather,
incidents of the voyage, etc. (c) (Legislature) The record of daily
proceedings, kept by the clerk. (d) A newspaper published daily; by
extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an
account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies,
etc.; a periodical; a magazine.
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2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's
journey. [Obs. & R.] B. Jonson.
3. (Mach.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle,
etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.
Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the
box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.