5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing;
to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
Syn. -- To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate; absolve;
exonerate.
Jus"ti*fy, v. i. 1. (Print.) To form an even surface or true line with
something else; to fit exactly.
2. (Law) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to
qualify one's self as bail or surety.
Jus*tin"i*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Institutes or laws of the
Roman Justinian.
Jus"tle (?), v. i. [Freq. of joust, just, v. i. See Joust, v. i., and
cf. Jostle.] To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to
clash; to jostle. Shak.
The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one
against another in the broad ways.
Nahum ii. 4.
Jus"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Justled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Justling
(?).] To push; to drive; to force by running against; to jostle.
We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great
while.
Addison.
Jus"tle, n. An encounter or shock; a jostle.
Just"ly (?), adv. [From Just, a.] In a just manner; in conformity to
law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately. "In
equal balance justly weighed." Shak.
Nothing can justly be despised that can not justly be blamed: where
there is no choice there can be no blame.
South.
Just"ness, n. The quality of being just; conformity to truth,
propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness;
fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a
description or representation; the justness of a cause.
In value the satisfaction I had in seeing it represented with all
the justness and gracefulness of action.
Dryden.
Justness is properly applied to things, and justice to persons; but the
distinction is not always observed.
Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; correctness; propriety; fitness;
reasonableness; equity; uprightness; justice.
Jut (jt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] [A
corruption of jet.]
1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the
jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore."
Wordsworth.
It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
Sir T. Browne.