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.
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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.
Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.
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.
See Jackwood.
The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipom/a purga (or Exogonium purga) of the family Convolvulaceae, a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative (cathartic) medicines, and are also called jalap. Other species of Ipom/a yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the Ipom/a Orizabensis, and Ipom/a tuberosa.
Of or pertaining to jalap.
A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative.
Long poles, topped with wisps of straw, used as landmarks and signals.
A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.
Furnished with jalousies; as, jalousied porches.
A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; also called jelly; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
Jamaicine.
Same as Jemidar.
One of the West Indian islands.
Of or pertaining to Jamaica. A native or inhabitant of Jamaica.
An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina.
See Jam, v. t. i.
A spicy Creole dish of rice with ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish, plus tomatoes, and seasoned with peppers, onions, herbs, and celery.
See jambes.
See Jambes.
A fashionable cane.
In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees, usually having front and back pieces; called also greaves.
A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit.
A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree.
The Java plum; also, a drug obtained from its bark and seeds, formerly used as a remedy for diabetes.
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