A mock encounter on horseback; a combat for sport or for exercise, in which the combatants pushed K, the eleventh letter of the English Alphabet, is borrowed from the Greeks, being the same character as the Greek kappa, answering to the oriental kaph. It represents a close articulation, formed by pressing the root of the tongue against the upper part of the mouth, with a depression of the lower jaw and opening of the teeth. It is usually denominated a guttural, but is more properly a palatal. Before all the vowels, it has one invariable sound, corresponding with that of c, before a, o, and u, as in keelIn monosyllables, it is used after c, as in crack, check, deck, being necessary to exhibit a correct pronunciation in the derivatives, cracked, checked, decked, cracking, for without it, c, before the vowels e and i, would be sounded like s. K is silent before n, as in know, knifeAs a numeral, K stands for 250; and with a stroke over it, for 250,000. This character was not used by the ancient Romans, and rarely in the later ages of their empire. In the place of k, they used c, as in clino, for Greek. In the Teutonic dialects, this Greek letter is sometimes represented by h. [See

Regular; orderly; due; suitable. When all . The war shall stand ranged in its just array.

Exactly proportioned; proper. Pleaseth your lordship . To meet his grace, just distance ‘tween our armies?

Full; complete to the common standard. He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.

Full; true; a sense allied to the preceding, or the same. --So that once the skirmish was like to have come to a just battle.

In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice; as a just judge.

In an evangelical sense, righteous; religious; influenced by a regard to the laws of God; or living in exact conformity to the divine will, There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Ecclesiastes 7:20.

Conformed to rules of justice; doing equal justice. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just him shall ye 71LS have. Leviticus 19:36.

Conformed to truth; exact; proper; accurate; as just thoughts; just expressions; just images or representations; a just description; a just inference.

True; founded in truth and fact; as a just charge or accusation.

Innocent; blameless; without guilt. How should man be just with God? Job 9:2.

Equitable; due; merited; as a just recompense or reward. --Whose damnation is just. Romans 3:8.

True to promises; faithful; as just to one’s word or engagements.

Impartial; allowing what is due; giving fair representation of character, merit or demerit.

Close or closely;; near or nearly, in place. He stood just by the speaker, and heard what he said. He stood just at the entrance of the city.

Near or nearly in time; almost. Just at that moment he arose and fled.

Exactly; nicely; accurately. They remain just of the same opinion. ‘Tis with our judgments as our watches; . Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Merely; barely; exactly. --And having just enough, not covet more.

Narrowly. He just escaped without injury.

A mock encounter on horseback; a combat for sport or for exercise, in which the combatants pushed with lances and swords, man to man, in mock fight; a tilt; one of the exercises at tournaments.