JUJUBE

The fruit of the Rhamnus zizyphus: it resembles a small plum, and is occasionally used as a sweetmeat. What is sold under the name of jujube paste profe es to be the dried jelly of this fruit, but is, in fact, a mixture of cum arahic and sugar slightly coloured. JU LIAN iERA. The commencement of a period invented to correspond with the cycles of the Julian year. It coincides with the 710th year before the creation of the World, according to common chronology. [s. 639]