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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Jākes, n.p. 723A house of necessity, or back-house; a privy. [Obs.]
  2. Jāk'-wood, n.p. 723See JACKWOOD.
  3. 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…
  4. Ja-lāp'ic, a.p. 723Relating to, containing, or consisting of, jalap.
  5. Jāl'a-pīne, n.p. 723(Chem.) A vegetable proximate principle of the officinal jalap. Dunglison.
  6. Jalousie, n.p. 723A slatted or Venetian window blind; — so called especially in the West Indies. Simmonds.
  7. 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. &…
  8. Jām, v. t.p. 723To press; to crowd; to squeeze tight; to wedge in.
  9. Jām'a-cī'nā, n.p. 723(Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the Andira inermis, or cabbage-tree of the West Indies.
  10. Ja-māi'ca-pēp'per, n.p. 723See ALLSPICE.
  11. Ja-māi'çine, n.p. 723The same as JAMACINA.
  12. 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…
  13. Jāmb, v. t.p. 723(Naut.) To squeeze tight.
  14. Jam-bee', n.p. 723A fashionable cane. [Obs.] Tatler.
  15. Jāmbeṣ or Jām'beux, n. pl.p. 723Armor for the legs, made of waxed leather or metal; — much used in the middle ages.
  16. Jām'da-rī, n.p. 724A kind of Indian muslin woven with figures of flowers and other ornamental objects.
  17. Jā'me-son-īte, n.p. 724(Min.) A steel-gray ore of lead and antimony.
  18. 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.]
  19. Jān, n.p. 724(Mohammedan Myth.) An inferior demon.
  20. Jāne, n.p. 724A coin of Genoa. Spenser. 2. A twilled cotton cloth. See JEAN.
  21. Jāne'-of-āpes', n.p. 724A silly, pert girl;—corresponding to jackanapes. See JACKANAPES.
  22. Jan-gā'dā, n.p. 724A raft-boat used in Peru and the northern parts of Brazil. Simmonds.
  23. 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.
  24. 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…
  25. Jăn'gle, n.p. 724Discordant sound; contention; prate; babble.
  26. Jăn'gler, n.p. 724A wrangling, noisy fellow.
  27. Jān'gler-ess, n.p. 724A female who jangles; a noisy, quarrelsome woman.
  28. Jān'is-sa-ry, n.p. 724See JANIZARY.
  29. Jān'i-tor, n.p. 724A doorkeeper; a porter.
  30. Jān'i-trix, n.p. 724A female doorkeeper. 2. (Anat.) A large vein; the vena porta.
  31. Jān'i-zār', n.p. 724A janizary. [Rare.]
  32. Jān'i-zā'ri-an, a.p. 724Pertaining to the Janizaries, or their government.
  33. 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.]
  34. Jān'nock, n.p. 724Oat-bread. [Prov. Eng.]
  35. Jān'sen-ism, n.p. 724(Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of Jansen in regard to free will and grace.
  36. 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…
  37. Jānt, v. i.p. 724To jaunt. See JAUNT.
  38. 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.
  39. Jānt'i-ly, adv.p. 724Jauntily.
  40. Jänt'i-ness, n.p. 724Jauntiness.
  41. Jăn'tū, n.p. 724A machine for raising water. [India.]
  42. Jän'ty, a.p. 724Jaunty. See JAUNTY.
  43. Jăn'ū-a-ry, n.p. 724The first month of the year, according to the present computation.
  44. 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.
  45. Jā'nus-fāced, a.p. 724Practicing duplicity.
  46. 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…
  47. 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…
  48. Jăp'a-nēse', a.p. 724(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Japan, or its inhabitants.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. Ja-pān'nish, a.p. 724After the manner of the Japanese, or of japanned articles. Carlyle.
  52. Jāpe, v. i.p. 724To jest. [Obs. or rare.] Chaucer.
  53. Jāpe, v. t.p. 724To play jests upon; to deride; to trick; to cheat.
  54. Jāpe, n.p. 724A jest; a trick. I have not been putting a jape upon you all this time. W. Scott.
  55. Jāp'er, n.p. 724A jester. [Obs.]
  56. 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.
  57. Jăp'ū, n.p. 724(Ornith.) A bird of Brazil, a kind of woodpecker that suspends its nest.
  58. 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…
  59. Jär, v. t.p. 724To cause a short, tremulous motion; to cause to tremble; to shake.
  60. Jär, n.p. 724A rattling vibration; a shake; a harsh sound; a discord; as, a trembling jar. 2. Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate. And yet his peace is but continual jar. Spenser. Cease…