city of Silesia, capital of a province of the same name, with a citadel, and a large square, surrounded with piazzas. It is 12 miles south-east of Lignitz, 30 south-west of Breslau, and 87 east of Prague. E. Long. 15. 29. N. Lat. 50. 56.

Jaundice (derived from the French jaunisse "yellowness," of jaune "yellow"); a disease consisting in a suffusion of the bile, and a rejection thereof to the surface of the body, whereby the whole exterior habit is discoloured. Dr Maculog is of opinion, that the bile returns into the circulation in this disorder by the course of the lymphatics. See Medicine Index.

Jaws. See Maxilla.

Locked jaw, is a spasmodic contraction of the lower jaw, commonly produced by some external injury affecting the tendons or ligaments. See Medicine Index.

Jay, see Corvus, Ornithology Index.

Jay, Guy Michael le, a French gentleman, who distinguished himself by causing a polyglot bible to be printed at his own expense in 10 vols folio: but he ruined himself by that imprudence, first because he would not suffer it to appear under the name of Cardinal Richelieu, who, after the example of Cardinal Ximenes, was ambitious of eternalizing his name by this means; and next, because he made it too dear for the English market; on which Dr Walton undertook his polyglot bible, which, being more commodious, reduced the price of M. le Jay's. After the death of his wife, M. le Jay took orders, was made dean of Veze-lay in the Nièvre, and Louis XIV. gave him the post of counsellor of state.