Jew

(j5), n. [¢ ME. Jew, Jeu, Giw, Gyw, Jwe, ju, usually in pl. Jewes, Jowes, Jues, Geus, Giwes, cio us Gywes, ete., Ar. as Turk. Hind. Yahudi, a Jew).] 1. A Hebrew; an Israelite. Trowe this for no lesyng, And namely leve her of no Iwe, For al thus dud the i with Jhesu, Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab., f. 113. (Hall i well.) Glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. Rom. ii. 10. 2. A person who seeks gain by sordid or crafty means; a hard-fisted money-lender, or tricky words dealer: an opprobrious use: as, he is a regular lance Jew.— Exchequer of the Jews. See exchequer.—Jew jewel Bill. See bill3.—Jew’s eyet. [An allusion to the custom most of torturing Jews with the view of-extorting money.] Something very precious or highly prized. 8. There will come a Christian by, enamel, Will be worth a Jewe ’ eye. badge Shatk., M. of V., ii. 5, 43. Garter. [In the original editions the word in this pa age is Jewes, the old di yllabic po e ive for either sex. The phrase “worth a Jewes eye” is the old proverb here used punning black ly.|— Jews’ frankincense, the balsam known as benzoin feathers. or gum storax, often used as an incense.—Jews’ houses, in 4. Cornwall, England, remains of ancient dwellings and fur account naces which, together with the tools of ancient smelters and blocks of tin in the rude molds of earth in which the as metal was cast, have been found in various parts of that imitation, county. These remains date back to a period many cen- See turies before Christ, at a time when trade had been established between Britain and the eastern Mediterranean ete., region.—Jews’ money, a name given to old Roman coins with found in some parts of England. Hail i well.— Jews’ tin, variety tin smelted in rude blast-furnaces and cast into irregular slabs of various kinds, found in connection with the so called Jews’ houses in Cornwall, and believed to be the work of ancient smelters. effectively