The fine, soft fiber of the bromeliaceous plant Bromelia sylvestris.

A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber.

The eighth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May).

The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.

The sister and consort of Izanagi; mother of the islands and gods of Japan.

A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees.

One of an Oriental religious sect which worships Satan or the Devil.

The religion of the Izedis.

The letter z; -- formerly so called.

Same as Judge-Advocate General.

juvenile delinquent.

A thrust or stab.

Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

One who jabbers.

In a jabbering manner.

Jabber.

Same as Jobbernowl.

One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits.

The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub (Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.

An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves, from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance. In its action it resembles atropine.

Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt.

A small evergreen tropical tree (Myrciaria cauliflora) native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern U. S.; it is grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches.

In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant.

Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.

The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood. A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers.

A cayman. See Yacare.

The common marmoset (Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name was also applied to other species of the same genus.

See Jaconet.

Lying at length; as, the jacent posture.

See Hyacinth.

To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.

A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.

A common American spring-flowering woodland herb (Aris/ma triphyllum) having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries; also called Indian turnip.

A large orange-colored luminescent mushroom, Clitocybe illudens, also classified as Omphalotus olearius. It is poisonous and is sometimes found on hardwood tree stumps.

To be a jackaroo; to pass one's time as a jackaroo.

a man's high tasseled boot.

Harsh strongarm tactics; repressive, bullying and militaristic tactics like those used in authoritarian or totalitarian countries; -- used opprobriously, and often in hyperbolic exaggeration of police tactics in democratic countries.

Wearing jackboots; -- used especially as a metaphor for harshly repressive and militaristic; as, jackbooted government agents.

See Daw, n.

A drunken, dissolute fellow.

A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life.

To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.

Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket.

The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.

a hammer having a strong steel cutting blade, driven by compressed air in multiple rapid strokes, and used for cutting through pavement, concrete, or other hard substances.

A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.

to fish for or hunt with a jacklight.

Same as jack pot. See under jack.

A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

The merganser.

A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.

A low servant; a mean fellow.

A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c.

A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe. A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.

A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.

One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.

An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.

The game played with jackstraws{2}, which resembles pick-up-sticks.

Dim. or pet from Jack A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter. English gin.

A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.

any distinguished personage during the reign of James I of England.

Of or pertaining to James the First, of England, or of his reign or times; especially, pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration popular in the time of James I.; as, Jacobean writers.

Same as Jacobinic.

A Jacobin.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism.

The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.

To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism.

The principles of the Jacobites.

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

A thin cotton fabric, between cambric and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.

A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France.

The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants.

A boasting; a bragging.

A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation.

Fit for throwing.

To throw or cast, as a dart; to throw out; to emit.

The act of tossing, throwing, or hurling, as spears.

Darting or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers.

See Holing.

To become weary; to lose spirit.

dulled by surfeit; as, the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes.

See Jade, the stone.

The tricks of a jade.

Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse.

See Jager.

To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.

A sharpshooter. See Yager.

See Jag.

unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap. See jaggery.

Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks.

something irregular like a bump on or crack in a smooth surface.

One who, or that which, jags; a jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. A toothed chisel. See Jag, v. t.

Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically those of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis) and jaggery palm (Caryota urens).

Same as jaggery.

Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth.

A village or district the government and revenues of which are assigned to some person, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops.

The holder of a jaghir.

A large and powerful feline animal (Panthera onca, formerly Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. It is also called the panther and the American tiger.

A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.

Jehovah.

a name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH. See Jehovah.

See Jehovist, Jehovistic.

To imprison.

an escape from jail; as, five prisoners escaped in a coordinated jailbreak.

placed in a prison; -- of people.

The keeper of a jail or prison.

The act or process of putting someone in prison or in jail as a lawful punishment.

of or pertaining to Jainism; as, Jain gods.

One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism.

The heterodox Hindu religion, founded in the 6th century as a revolt against Hinduism; its most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindu gods, and the denial of a supreme being and of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. Also, the sect comprising those adhering to Jainism. Jainism believes in immortality and the transmigration of the soul. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.

The ahu or Asiatic gazelle.

see 1st Jack.

A privy.

A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog.

An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot.