a day-book, register, or account of what passes daily. See DIARY.

in merchants accounts, is a book into which every particular article is posted out of the waste-book, and made debtor. This is to be very clearly worded, and fairly engrossed. See Book-Keeping.

Navigation, a sort of diary, or daily register of the ship's course, winds, and weather; together with a general account of whatever is material to be remarked in the period of a sea-voyage.

In all sea-journals, the day, or what is called the 24 hours, terminate at noon, because the errors of the dead-reckoning are at that period generally corrected by a solar observation. The daily compact usually contains the state of the weather; the variation, increase, or diminution of the wind; and the suitable shifting, reducing, or enlarging the quantity of sail extended; as also the most material incidents of the voyage, and the condition of the ship and her crew; together with the discovery of other ships or fleets, land, shoals, breakers, soundings, &c.

Journal, is also a name common for weekly essays, newspapers, &c. as the Gray's Inn Journal, the Westminster Journal, &c.

Journal, is also used for the titles of several books which come out at stated times, and give abstracts, accounts, &c. of the new books that are published, and the new improvements daily made in arts and sciences; as the Journal de Scavans, Journal de Physique, &c.