jube

noun

1. A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries.

   “As the scum forms on the top remove it, or the jubes will not be clear.”

   “[…]for example, barley sugar, menthol jubes, honey and glycerine jubes, eucalyptus jubes, voice jubes, &c).”

   “Unlike other jellies and jubes, which are made with gelatine, Pectin Jellies are made with natural pectin.”

   “Ros′s father′s main preoccupations in his nursing home were to have a box of man-sized tissues beside his bed and plenty of his favourite fruit-flavoured jubes beside the jumbo Kleenex.”

2. (alt-of, alternative, error-lua-exec)Alternative spelling of jubé (“rood screen”)

   “In the middle of the nave was erected a magnificent jube, where the throne of Charles X. was placed.”

3. An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran.

   “The seasons in Tehran are colored with torpor.[…]Fear the narrow, icy streets with their treacherous jubes on either side.”

   “The existing provision for storm water drainage comprises lined open channels known locally as jubes. The jubes were originally constructed to perform the dual functions of surface water drainage and irrigation of roadside planting within the city.”

   “They merely didn′t comprehend that treated city tap water was safer than well or jube water. Moreover, we thought it was bizarre when we observed household servants in the affluent northside washing their villa′s dishes in the jubes.”