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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Jāk, n. p. 723(Bot.) See JACK.Jākes, n. p. 723A house of necessity, or back-house; a privy. [Obs.]Jāk'-wood, n. p. 723See JACKWOOD.Jāl'ap, n. p. 723(Med.) The root of a plant differently classified as Convolvulus purga, Ipomœa purga, and Exogonium purga, found in Mexico. It has little or no taste or smell, but is much used in powder as a…Ja-lāp'ic, a. p. 723Relating to, containing, or consisting of, jalap.Jāl'a-pīne, n. p. 723(Chem.) A vegetable proximate principle of the officinal jalap. Dunglison.Jalousie, n. p. 723A slatted or Venetian window blind; — so called especially in the West Indies. Simmonds.Jām, n. p. 723A mass of people crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; as, to be in a great jam; to be forced along by the jam. 2. A conserve of fruit boiled in mass with sugar and water. 3. [Per. &…Jām, v. t. p. 723To press; to crowd; to squeeze tight; to wedge in.Jām'a-cī'nā, n. p. 723(Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the Andira inermis, or cabbage-tree of the West Indies.Ja-māi'ca-pēp'per, n. p. 723See ALLSPICE.Ja-māi'çine, n. p. 723The same as JAMACINA.Jāmb, n. p. 723(Arch.) The side-piece or post of a door; the side-piece of a fire-place, or any other aperture in a building. Gwilt. 2. (Mining.) A mass of mineral or stone in a quarry or pit standing upright, more…Jāmb, v. t. p. 723(Naut.) To squeeze tight.Jam-bee', n. p. 723A fashionable cane. [Obs.] Tatler.Jāmbeṣ or Jām'beux, n. pl. p. 723Armor for the legs, made of waxed leather or metal; — much used in the middle ages.Jām'da-rī, n. p. 724A kind of Indian muslin woven with figures of flowers and other ornamental objects.Jā'me-son-īte, n. p. 724(Min.) A steel-gray ore of lead and antimony.Jām'-nūt, n. p. 724A nut placed in contact with the main nut on the same bolt, to keep the main nut from turning; — called also check-nut and cock-nut. [See Illust. of Bolt.]Jān, n. p. 724(Mohammedan Myth.) An inferior demon.Jāne, n. p. 724A coin of Genoa. Spenser. 2. A twilled cotton cloth. See JEAN.Jāne'-of-āpes', n. p. 724A silly, pert girl;—corresponding to jackanapes. See JACKANAPES.Jan-gā'dā, n. p. 724A raft-boat used in Peru and the northern parts of Brazil. Simmonds.Jān'gle, v. i. p. 724To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. 2. To quarrel in words; to altercate; to bicker; to wrangle. Good wits will be jangling; but gentles agree. Shak.Jăn'gle, v. t. p. 724To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to rattle. “Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harshly.” Shak. 2. To cause to sound untunably or discordantly. Ere monkish rhymes Had jangled…Jăn'gle, n. p. 724Discordant sound; contention; prate; babble.Jăn'gler, n. p. 724A wrangling, noisy fellow.Jān'gler-ess, n. p. 724A female who jangles; a noisy, quarrelsome woman.Jān'is-sa-ry, n. p. 724See JANIZARY.Jān'i-tor, n. p. 724A doorkeeper; a porter.Jān'i-trix, n. p. 724A female doorkeeper. 2. (Anat.) A large vein; the vena porta.Jān'i-zār', n. p. 724A janizary. [Rare.]Jān'i-zā'ri-an, a. p. 724Pertaining to the Janizaries, or their government.Jān'i-za-ry, n. p. 724A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. [Written also janissary.]Jān'nock, n. p. 724Oat-bread. [Prov. Eng.]Jān'sen-ism, n. p. 724(Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of Jansen in regard to free will and grace.Jān'sen-ist, n. p. 724(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, who received certain views of grace similar to those taught by Calvin, and formed a powerful party in the…Jānt, v. i. p. 724To jaunt. See JAUNT.Jan-thī'na, n. p. 724(Zoöl.) A genus of turbinated testaceous mollusks, of remarkable habits, shell ventricose, globular, or anoid;—named from the beautiful violet color of the shell.Jānt'i-ly, adv. p. 724Jauntily.Jänt'i-ness, n. p. 724Jauntiness.Jăn'tū, n. p. 724A machine for raising water. [India.]Jän'ty, a. p. 724Jaunty. See JAUNTY.Jăn'ū-a-ry, n. p. 724The first month of the year, according to the present computation.Jā'nus, n. p. 724(Rom. Antiq.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. His temple, at Rome, was never closed except in a time of universal peace.Jā'nus-fāced, a. p. 724Practicing duplicity.Ja-pān', n. or Ja-pān', a., n. p. 724Work varnished and figured in the manner practiced by the natives of Japan; also, the peculiar varnish or lacquer used in japanning metallic or other articles. Ja-pān', a. Of, or pertaining to…Ja-păn', v. t. p. 724To cover with a thick coat of hard, brilliant varnish, in the manner of the Japanese. 2. To black and gloss, as in blacking shoes or boots. Japanned leather, a sort of enameled or varnished leather…Jăp'a-nēse', a. p. 724(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Japan, or its inhabitants.Jăp'a-nēse', n. p. 724(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Japan; in the plural, the people of Japan. 2. The language of the people of Japan.Ja-păn'ner, n. p. 724One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art. 2. A shoe-blacker. Pope.Ja-pān'nish, a. p. 724After the manner of the Japanese, or of japanned articles. Carlyle.Jāpe, v. i. p. 724To jest. [Obs. or rare.] Chaucer.Jāpe, v. t. p. 724To play jests upon; to deride; to trick; to cheat.Jāpe, n. p. 724A jest; a trick. I have not been putting a jape upon you all this time. W. Scott.Jāp'er, n. p. 724A jester. [Obs.]Ja-phĕt'ic, a. p. 724Pertaining to Japheth, the eldest son of Noah; as, the Japhetic nations, which people the north of Asia and all Europe; Japhetic languages.Jăp'ū, n. p. 724(Ornith.) A bird of Brazil, a kind of woodpecker that suspends its nest.Jär, v. i. p. 724To give forth a short rattle or tremulous sound; to vibrate harshly or discordantly; as, a jarring sound. When such strings jar, what hope of harmony? Shak. A string may jar in the best master's…Jär, v. t. p. 724To cause a short, tremulous motion; to cause to tremble; to shake.