The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Journal \Jour"nal\, a. [F., fr. L. diurnalis diurnal, fr.
   diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. See Diurnal.]
   Daily; diurnal. [Obs.]
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         Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.
                                                  --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Journal \Jour"nal\, n. [F. journal. See Journal, a.]
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   1. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
      Specifically:
      (a) (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered
          a condensed and grouped statement of the daily
          transactions.
      (b) (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's course and
          distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage,
          etc.
      (c) (Legislature) The record of daily proceedings, kept by
          the clerk.
      (d) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly
          newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an
          account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs
          of societies, etc.; a periodical; a magazine.
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   2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel;
      a day's journey. [Obs. & R.] --B. Jonson.
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   3. (Mach.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft,
      axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See
      Illust. of Axle box.
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   Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a
      journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or
      pin turns.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

148 Moby Thesaurus words for "journal":
   Clio, Domesday Book, Muse of history, account book,
   accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, address book,
   adventures, adversaria, album, almanac, annal, annals, annual,
   appointment calendar, appointment schedule, autobiography,
   axle box, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, bimonthly,
   biographical sketch, biography, biweekly, blankbook, blotter,
   books, calendar, card ledger, case history, cashbook, catalog,
   catalogue, check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, chronology,
   classified catalog, clock card, commonplace book, confessions,
   cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, court calendar,
   curriculum vitae, daily, date slip, datebook, daybook,
   desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, documentation, dossier,
   engagement book, ephemeris, experiences, factory ledger,
   fortnightly, fortunes, gazette, hagiography, hagiology,
   historiography, history, hotbox, inventory, journal box, ledger,
   legend, life, life and letters, life story, list, log, logbook,
   loose-leaf notebook, magazine, martyrology, memo book, memoir,
   memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum book, memorial, memorials,
   memory book, minutes, monthly, necrology, newsletter, newsmagazine,
   newspaper, notebook, obituary, organ, pad, paper, passbook,
   periodical, petty cashbook, photobiography, pictorial,
   pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, profile,
   purchase ledger, quarterly, record, record book, register,
   registry, resume, review, roll, sales journal, sales ledger,
   scrapbook, scratch pad, serial, slick magazine, spiral notebook,
   stock ledger, stores ledger, story, suspense ledger, table, tablet,
   tabloid, theory of history, time book, time chart, time scale,
   time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable,
   trade magazine, triptych, weekly, workbook, writing tablet,
   yearbook