(John, or Jean), an appellation formerly given to an emperor of the Tartars who was overcome and killed by Jenghiz Khan. Since that time it has been given to the emperor of Abyssinia or Ethiopia; however, in Ethiopia itself this name is utterly unknown, the emperor being there called the grand negus.

a meteor, consisting of an exhalation thrown from the clouds downwards with such violence, as that by the collision it is set on fire. The word is Greek, ἀσπρός, the name of a kind of serpent; called also diplas, to which this meteor is supposed to bear a resemblance. It he prester differs from the thunderbolt in the manner of its inflammation; and in its burning and breaking every thing it touches with greater violence.

a word used by some to express the external part of the neck, which is usually inflated in anger.