| J: | J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I used to express a consonantal sound that is originally the sound of English y in yet The forms J and I have until a recent time been classed together and they have been used interchangeably |
| Jaalgoat: | A species of wild goat Capra Nubiana found in the mountains of Abyssinia Upper Egypt and Arabia called also beden and jaela |
| Jab: | To thrust to stab to punch See Job v t |
| Jab: | A thrust or stab |
| Jabber: | To talk rapidly indistinctly or unintelligibly to utter gibberish or nonsense to chatter |
| Jabber: | To utter rapidly or indistinctly to gabble as to jabber French |
| Jabber: | Rapid or incoherent talk with indistinct utterance gibberish |
| Jabberer: | One who jabbers |
| Jabberingly: | In a jabbering manner |
| Jabberment: | Jabber |
| Jabbernowl: | Same as Jobbernowl |
| Jabiru: | One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus allied to the storks in form and habits |
| Jaborandi: | The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub Pilocarpus pennatifolius The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue |
| Jaborine: | An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance In its action it resembles atropine |
| dJabot: | Originally a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt |
| jaboticaba: | 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 toughskinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches |
| Jacal: | 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 |
| Jacamar: | 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 |
| Jacana: | 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 |
| Jacaranda: | The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees which produce the beautiful woods called king wood tiger wood and violet wood |
| Jacare: | A cayman See Yacare |
| Jacchus: | The common marmoset Hapale vulgaris Formerly the name was also applied to other species of the same genus |
| Jacconet: | See Jaconet |
| Jacent: | Lying at length as the jacent posture |
| Jacinth: | See Hyacinth |
| Jack: | A large tree the Artocarpus integrifolia common in the East Indies closely allied to the breadfruit from which it differs in having its leaves entire The fruit is of great size weighing from thirty to forty pounds and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds which are roasted and eaten The wood is of a yellow color fine grain and rather heavy and is much used in cabinetwork It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow |
| Jack: | A coarse and cheap medival coat of defense esp one made of leather |
| Jack: | A pitcher or can of waxed leather called also black jack |
| Jack: | To hunt game at night by means of a jack See 2d Jack n 4 n |
| Jack: | To move or lift as a house by means of a jack or jacks See 2d Jack n 5 |
| Jackadandy: | A little dandy a little foppish impertinent fellow |
| Jackalent: | A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent hence a simple fellow |
| Jackaroo: | A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life |
| Jackaroo: | To be a jackaroo to pass ones time as a jackaroo |
| jackboot: | a mans high tasseled boot |
| jackbooted: | Wearing jackboots used especially as a metaphor for harshly repressive and militaristic as jackbooted government agents |
| jackboottactics: | 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 |
| Jackdaw: | See Daw n |
| Jackeen: | A drunken dissolute fellow |
| Jacket: | To put a jacket on to furnish as a boiler with a jacket |
| Jacketed: | Wearing or furnished with a jacket |
| Jacketing: | The material of a jacket as nonconducting jacketing |
| jackhammer: | 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 |
| Jackinabox: | A tropical tree Hernandia sonora which bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated calyx |
| jackinthepulpit: | A common American springflowering woodland herb Arisma triphyllum having sheathing leaves and an upright clubshaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries also called Indian turnip |
| JackKetch: | A public executioner or hangman |
| Jackknife: | A large strong clasp knife for the pocket a pocket knife |
| jacklight: | A portable source of light as an oil lantern or electric light used as a lure for hunting at night |
| jacklight: | to fish for or hunt with a jacklight |
| Jackolantern: | A large orangecolored luminescent mushroom Clitocybe illudens also classified as Omphalotus olearius It is poisonous and is sometimes found on hardwood tree stumps |
| Jackpot: | Same as jack pot See under jack |
| Jackpudding: | A merryandrew a buffoon |
| Jacksaw: | The merganser |
| Jackscrew: | A jack in which a screw is used for lifting or exerting pressure See Illust of 2d Jack n 5 |
| Jackslave: | A low servant a mean fellow |
| Jacksmith: | A smith who makes jacks See 2d Jack 4 c |
| Jacksnipe: | A small European snipe Limnocryptes gallinula called also judcock jedcock juddock jed and half snipe |
| Jackstay: | A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel to which the sails are fastened |
| Jackstone: | One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones |
| Jackstraw: | An effigy stuffed with straw a scarecrow hence a man without property or influence |
| jackstraws: | The game played with jackstraws2 which resembles pickupsticks |
| Jackwood: | Wood of the jack Artocarpus integrifolia used in cabinetwork |
| Jacky: | Dim or pet from Jack |
| Jacob: | 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 |
| Jacobanlily: | A bulbous plant Amaryllis formosissima syn Sprekelia formosissima from Mexico It bears a single large deep red lilylike flower |
| Jacobean: | 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 |
| Jacobean: | any distinguished personage during the reign of James I of England |
| Jacobin: | Same as Jacobinic |
| Jacobine: | A Jacobin |
| Jacobinic: | Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France revolutionary of the nature of or characterized by Jacobinism |
| Jacobinism: | The principles of the Jacobins violent and factious opposition to legitimate government |
| Jacobinize: | To taint with or convert to Jacobinism |
| Jacobite: | Of or pertaining to the Jacobites |
| Jacobitic: | Of or pertaining to the Jacobites characterized by Jacobitism |
| Jacobitism: | The principles of the Jacobites |
| Jacobus: | An English gold coin of the value of twentyfive shillings sterling struck in the reign of James I |
| Jaconet: | A thin cotton fabric between cambric and muslin used for dresses neckcloths etc |
| Jacquard: | Pertaining to or invented by Jacquard a French mechanician who died in 1834 |
| dJacqueminot: | A halfhardy deep crimson rose of the remontant class so named after General Jacqueminot of France |
| dJacquerie: | 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 |
| Jactancy: | A boasting a bragging |
| Jactation: | A throwing or tossing of the body a shaking or agitation |
| Jaculable: | Fit for throwing |
| Jaculate: | To throw or cast as a dart to throw out to emit |
| Jaculation: | The act of tossing throwing or hurling as spears |
| Jaculator: | One who throws or casts |
| Jaculatory: | Darting or throwing out suddenly also suddenly thrown out uttered in short sentences ejaculatory as jaculatory prayers |
| Jadding: | See Holing |
| Jade: | A stone commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish It is very hard and compact capable of fine polish and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements esp in Eastern countries and among many early peoples |
| Jade: | To become weary to lose spirit |
| jaded: | dulled by surfeit as the amoral jaded bored upper classes |
| Jadeite: | See Jade the stone |
| Jadery: | The tricks of a jade |
| Jadish: | Vicious illtempered resembling a jade applied to a horse |
| dJaeger: | See Jager |
| Jag: | To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw to notch |
| Jag: | A small load as of hay or grain in the straw or of ore |
| Jag: | To carry as a load as to jag hay etc |
| JAG: | Same as JudgeAdvocate General |
| Jagannath: | A particular form of Vishnu or of Krishna whose chief idol and worship are at Puri in Orissa The idol is considered to contain the bones of Krishna and to possess a soul The principal festivals are the Snanayatra when the idol is bathed and the Rathayatra when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings Formerly it was erroneously supposed that devotees allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the wheels of this car It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution |
| Jager: | A sharpshooter See Yager |
| jagg: | See Jag |
| jaggary: | unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap See jaggery |
| jagged: | Having jags having rough sharp notches protuberances or teeth cleft laciniate divided as jagged rocks |
| jaggedness: | something irregular like a bump on or crack in a smooth surface |
| Jagger: | One who carries about a small load a peddler See 2d Jag |
| Jagger: | One who or that which jags |
| Jaggery: | 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 |
| Jaggerypalm: | An East Indian palm Caryota urens having leaves pinnate with wedgeshaped divisions the petiole very stout It is the principal source of jaggery and is often cultivated for ornament |
| jagghery: | Same as jaggery |
| Jaggy: | Having jags set with teeth notched uneven as jaggy teeth |
| dJaghir: | 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 |
| dJaghirdar: | The holder of a jaghir |
| Jaguapalm: | A great Brazilian palm Maximiliana regia having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs |
| Jaguar: | 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 |
| dJaguarondi: | 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 |
| Jah: | Jehovah |
| Jahvist: | See Jehovist Jehovistic |
| Jahweh: | a name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH See Jehovah |
| Jail: | A kind of prison a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding |
| Jail: | To imprison |
| jailbird: | A prisoner one is in prison or who has been confined in prison |
| jailbreak: | an escape from jail as five prisoners escaped in a coordinated jailbreak |
| jailed: | placed in a prison of people |
| Jailer: | The keeper of a jail or prison |
| jailing: | The act or process of putting someone in prison or in jail as a lawful punishment |
| Jain: | One of a numerous sect in British India holding the tenets of Jainism |
| Jain: | of or pertaining to Jainism as Jain gods |
| 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 |
| dJairou: | The ahu or Asiatic gazelle |
| Jak: | see 1st Jack |
| Jakes: | A privy |
| Jakie: | A South American striped frog Pseudis paradoxa remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult and hence called also paradoxical frog |
| Jako: | An African parrot Psittacus erithacus very commonly kept as a cage bird called also gray parrot |
| Jakwood: | See Jackwood |
| Jalap: | The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomd2a purga or Exogonium purga of the family Convolvulaceae a climber much like the morningglory The abstract extract and powder prepared from the tubers are well known purgative cathartic medicines and are also called jalap Other species of Ipomd2a yield several inferior kinds of jalap as the Ipomd2a Orizabensis and Ipomd2a tuberosa |
| Jalapic: | Of or pertaining to jalap |
| Jalapin: | A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony It is a strong purgative |
| dJalons: | Long poles topped with wisps of straw used as landmarks and signals |
| dJalousie: | A Venetian or slatted inside window blind |
| Jalousied: | Furnished with jalousies as jalousied porches |
| Jam: | A kind of frock for children |
| Jam: | See Jamb |
| Jam: | To become stuck so as not to function as the copier jammed again |
| Jam: | A mass of people or objects crowded together also the pressure from a crowd a crush as a jam in a street a jam of logs in a river |
| Jam: | A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water also called jelly as raspberry jam currant jam grape jam |
| dJamacina: | Jamaicine |
| dJamadar: | Same as Jemidar |
| Jamaica: | One of the West Indian islands |
| Jamaican: | Of or pertaining to Jamaica |
| Jamaicine: | An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam called also jamacina |
| Jamb: | See Jam v t i |
| Jamb: | See Jambes |
| jambalaya: | A spicy Creole dish of rice with ham sausage chicken or shellfish plus tomatoes and seasoned with peppers onions herbs and celery |
| jambeau: | See jambes |
| Jambee: | A fashionable cane |
| Jambes: | In the Middle Ages armor for the legs below the knees usually having front and back pieces called also greaves |
| dJambolana: | A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America Calyptranthes Jambolana with astringent bark used for dyeing It bears an edible fruit |
| Jambool: | The Java plum also a drug obtained from its bark and seeds formerly used as a remedy for diabetes |
| Jamboree: | A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic a spree |
| dJamdani: | A silk fabric with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers |
| James: | William James an American psychologist and philosopher 18421910 He was the brother of Henry James |
| Jamesonia: | A genus of xerophytic ferns of South America |
| Jamesonite: | A steelgray mineral of metallic luster commonly fibrous massive It is a sulphide of antimony and lead with a little iron |
| Jamesspowder: | Antimonial powder first prepared by Dr James an English physician called also fever powder |
| Jamestownweed: | The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium Datura stramonium a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown Virginia See Datura |
| jamjar: | a jar for holding jellies or preserves |
| jammed: | filled to capacity or overfilled as the auditorium was jammed to the rafters |
| jampack: | to stuff to fill completely and tightly to jam1 |
| jampan: | a kind of sedan chair used in India |
| jampot: | a jar for holding jellies or preserves a jamjar |
| Jan: | One of an intermediate order between angels and men |
| Jane: | A coin of Genoa any small coin |
| Janeofapes: | A silly pert girl corresponding to jackanapes |
| Jangle: | To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously to produce discordant sounds with |
| Jangleress: | A female prater or babbler |
| Janglery: | Jangling |
| Jangling: | Producing discordant sounds |
| Jangling: | Idle babbling vain disputation |
| jangly: | like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together sounding with a jangle3 as a custodian with a jangly set of keys |
| Janissary: | See Janizary |
| Janitor: | A doorkeeper a porter |
| Janitress: | A female janitor |
| Janizar: | A janizary |
| Janizarian: | Of or pertaining to the janizaries or their government |
| Janizary: | A soldier of a privileged military class which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry but was suppressed in 1826 |
| Janker: | A long pole on two wheels used in hauling logs |
| Jansenism: | The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace |
| Jansenist: | A follower of Cornelius Jansen a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders in the 17th century who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace |
| Jant: | See Jaunt |
| dJanthina: | See Ianthina |
| Jantily: | See Jauntily |
| Jantiness: | See Jauntiness |
| dJantu: | A machine of great antiquity used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land |
| Janty: | See Jaunty |
| January: | The first month of the year containing thirtyone days |
| Janus: | A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome near the Forum which is usually called the Temple of Janus This passage was open in war and closed in peace |
| Janusfaced: | Doublefaced deceitful |
| Janusheaded: | Doubleheaded |
| Japan: | Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner also the varnish or lacquer used in japanning |
| Japan: | Of or pertaining to Japan or to the lacquered work of that country as Japan ware |
| Japancurrent: | A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific called also KuroSiwo or Black Stream in allusion to the deep blue of its water It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream |
| Japanese: | Of or pertaining to Japan or its inhabitants |
| Japanned: | Treated or coated with varnish in the Japanese manner |
| Japanner: | One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese or one skilled in the art |
| Japanning: | The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner |
| Japannish: | After the manner of the Japanese resembling japanned articles |
| Jape: | To jest to play tricks to jeer |
| Jape: | To mock to trick |
| Japer: | A jester a buffoon |
| Japery: | Jesting buffoonery |
| Japhethite: | A Japhetite |
| Japhetic: | Pertaining to or derived from Japheth one of the sons of Noah as Japhetic nations the nations of Europe and Northern Asia Japhetic languages |
| Japhetite: | A descendant of Japheth |
| Japonica: | A species of Camellia Camellia Japonica a native of Japan bearing beautiful red or white flowers Many other genera have species of the same name |
| Japonism: | A quality idiom or peculiarity characteristic of the Japanese or their products esp in art |
| Jar: | A turn |
| Jar: | A deep broadmouthed vessel of earthenware or glass for holding fruit preserves etc or for ornamental purposes as a jar of honey a rose jar |
| Jar: | To cause a short tremulous motion of to cause to tremble as by a sudden shock or blow to shake to shock as to jar the earth to jar ones faith |
| Jar: | A rattling tremulous vibration or shock a shake a harsh sound a discord as the jar of a train the jar of harsh sounds |
| dJararaca: | A poisonous serpent of Brazil Bothrops jararaca about eighteen inches long and of a dusky brownish color variegated with red and black spots |
| Jarble: | To wet to bemire |
| dJardiniare: | An ornamental stand or receptacle for plants flowers etc used as a piece of decorative furniture in room |
| Jards: | A callous tumor on the leg of a horse below the hock |
| Jargle: | To emit a harsh or discordant sound |
| Jargon: | Confused unintelligible language gibberish |
| Jargon: | To utter jargon to emit confused or unintelligible sounds to talk unintelligibly or in a harsh and noisy manner |
| Jargon: | A variety of zircon See Zircon |
| Jargonelle: | A variety of pear which ripens early |
| Jargonic: | Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon |
| Jargonist: | One addicted to jargon one who uses cant or slang |
| dJarl: | A chief an earl in English history one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions |
| Jarnut: | An earthnut |
| Jarosite: | An ocheryellow mineral occurring in minute rhombohedral crystals It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash |
| Jarowl: | The goatsucker |
| Jarrah: | The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata See Eucalyptus |
| Jarring: | Shaking disturbing discordant |
| Jarring: | A shaking a tremulous motion as the jarring of a steamship caused by its engines |
| Jarringly: | In a jarring or discordant manner |
| Jarvey: | The driver of a hackney coach |
| Jasey: | A wig so called perhaps from being made of or resembling Jersey yarn |
| Jashawk: | A young hawk |
| Jasmine: | A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor The Jasminum officinale common in the south of Europe bears white flowers The Arabian jasmine is Jasminum Sambac and with Jasminum angustifolia comes from the East Indies The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens see Gelsemium Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies as species of Calotropis and Faramea |
| Jason: | the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece |
| Jasp: | Jasper |
| Jaspachate: | Agate jasper |
| dJasp: | Having the surface decorated with cloudings and streaks somewhat as if imitating jasper |
| Jasper: | An opaque impure variety of quartz of red yellow and other dull colors breaking with a smooth surface It admits of a high polish and is used for vases seals snuff boxes etc When the colors are in stripes or bands it is called striped jasper or banded jasper The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper |
| Jasperated: | mixed with jasper containing particles of jasper as jasperated agate |
| Jasperize: | To convert into or make to resemble jasper |
| Jaspery: | Of the nature of jasper mixed with jasper |
| Jaspidean: | Consisting of jasper or containing jasper jaspery jasperlike |
| Jaspilite: | A compact siliceous rock resembling jasper |
| Jaspoid: | Resembling jasper |
| Jasponyx: | An onyx part or all of whose layers consist of jasper |
| Jatrophic: | Of or pertaining to physic nuts the seeds of plants of the genus Jatropha |
| Jaunce: | To ride hard to jounce |
| Jaundice: | A morbid condition characterized by yellowness of the eyes skin and urine whiteness of the fces constipation uneasiness in the region of the stomach loss of appetite and general languor and lassitude It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up in the liver of the bile which is then absorbed into the blood |
| Jaundice: | To affect with jaundice to color by prejudice or envy to prejudice |
| Jaundiced: | Affected with jaundice |
| Jaunt: | To jolt to jounce |
| Jaunt: | A wearisome journey |
| Jauntily: | In a jaunty manner |
| Jauntiness: | The quality of being jaunty |
| Jaunty: | Airy showy finical hence characterized by an affected or fantastical manner |
| Java: | One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands |
| Javanese: | Of or pertaining to Java or to the people of Java |
| Javel: | A vagabond |
| Javelin: | A sort of light spear to be thrown or cast by the hand anciently a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game |
| Javelin: | To pierce with a javelin |
| Javelinier: | A soldier armed with a javelin |
| Jaw: | To scold to clamor |
| Jaw: | To assail or abuse by scolding |
| Jawbone: | The bone of either jaw a maxilla or a mandible |
| jawbone: | To attempt to influence solely by talking as contrasted with threatening or inducing by other means eg legislation esp to make public appeals in order to influence the behavior of businessmen or labor leaders used especially of the President or other high government officials as to jawbone businessmen into forgoing price increases |
| Jawed: | Having jaws chiefly in composition as lanternjawed |
| Jawfall: | Depression of the jaw hence depression of spirits |
| Jawfallen: | Dejected chopfallen |
| Jawfoot: | See Maxilliped |
| Jawing: | Scolding clamorous or abusive talk |
| Jawn: | See Yawn |
| Jawy: | Relating to the jaws |
| Jay: | Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus Cyanocitta and allied genera of the family Corvidae They are allied to the crows but are smaller more graceful in form often handsomely colored and usually have a crest |
| Jayet: | See Jet |
| Jayhawker: | A name given to a freebooting unenlisted armed man or guerrilla |
| Jazel: | A gem of an azure color |
| Jazerant: | A coat of defense made of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like also this kind of armor taken generally as a coat of jazerant |
| jazz: | A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles but generally featuring intricate rhythms improvisation prominent solo segments and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style on various instruments including horn saxophone piano and percussion but rarely stringed instruments |
| jazzy: | resembling jazz1 especially in its rhythm |
| JCL: | Job Control Language |
| JD: | juvenile delinquent |
| JDL: | Jewish Defense League |
| Jealoushood: | Jealousy |
| Jealously: | In a jealous manner |
| Jealousness: | State or quality of being jealous |
| Jealousy: | The quality of being jealous earnest concern or solicitude painful apprehension of rivalship in cases directly affecting ones happiness painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband wife or lover |
| Jeames: | A footman a flunky |
| jean: | A twilled cotton cloth |
| Jears: | See 1st Jeer b |
| Jeat: | See Jet |
| Jeddingax: | A stone masons tool having a flat face and a pointed part |
| Jee: | See Gee |
| Jeel: | A morass a shallow lake |
| Jeer: | A gear a tackle |
| Jeer: | To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections to speak with mockery or derision to use taunting language to scoff as to jeer at a speaker |
| Jeer: | To treat with scoffs or derision to address with jeers to taunt to flout to mock at |
| Jeer: | A railing remark or reflection a scoff a taunt a biting jest a flout a jibe mockery |
| Jeerer: | A scoffer a railer a mocker |
| Jeering: | Mocking scoffing |
| Jeers: | See 1st Jeer b |
| dJeffersonia: | An American herb with a pretty white solitary blossom and deeply twocleft leaves Jeffersonia diphylla twinleaf |
| Jeffersonian: | Pertaining to or characteristic of Thomas Jefferson third President of the United States or his political doctrines which were those of the Republicanism of his time as opposed to those of the Federalists |
| Jeffersoniansimplicity: | The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President 18011809 eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee refusal to recognize titles of honor etc |
| Jeffersonite: | A variety of pyroxene of olivegreen color passing into brown It contains zinc |
| Jeg: | See Jig 6 |
| jehad: | Same as jihad |
| Jehovah: | A Scripture name of the Supreme Being by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy the bdineffable nameb8 of the Supreme Being which was not pronounced by the Jews |
| Jehovist: | One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah in Hebrew are the proper vowels of that word opposed to adonist |
| Jehovistic: | Relating to or containing Jehovah as a name of God said of certain parts of the Old Testament especially of the Pentateuch in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity See Elohistic |
| Jehu: | A coachman a driver especially one who drives furiously |
| Jejunal: | Pertaining to the jejunum |
| Jejunity: | The quality of being jejune jejuneness |
| dJejunum: | The middle division of the small intestine between the duodenum and ileum so called because usually found empty after death |
| dJelerang: | A large handsome squirrel Sciurus Javensis native of Java and Southern Asia called also Java squirrel |
| Jell: | To jelly |
| jellaba: | a loose cloak with a hood worn in the Middle East and northern Africa |
| jelled: | congealed from a liquid state into a jelly jellied |
| jellied: | Brought to the state or consistency of jelly |
| jellify: | To make or to become gelatinous to make into jelly to jelly |
| JellO: | a brand of sweetened fruitflavored powdered mixture packaged so that it can be conveniently dissolved in hot water and solidified into a gelatin used as a dessert sometimes with pieces of fruit mixed in also the gelatin dessert thus prepared sometimes used metaphorically as when he pulled a gun on me my knees turned to JellO |
| Jelly: | To become jelly to come to the state or consistency of jelly |
| Jellyfish: | Any one of the acalephs esp one of the larger species having a jellylike appearance See Medusa and acaleph |
| dJemidar: | The chief or leader of a band or body of persons esp in the native army of India an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army |
| Jemlahgoat: | The jharal |
| Jemminess: | Spruceness |
| Jemmy: | Spruce |
| Jemmy: | A short crowbar See Jimmy |
| dJeniquen: | A Mexican name for the Sisal hemp Agave rigida var Sisalana also its fiber |
| Jenite: | See Yenite |
| Jenkins: | A name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life as the Jenkins employed by a newspaper |
| Jennet: | A small Spanish horse a genet |
| Jenneting: | A variety of early apple See Juneating |
| Jenny: | A machine for spinning a number of threads at once used in factories Also called spinning jenny |
| Jentling: | A fish of the genus Leuciscus the blue chub of the Danube |
| Jeofail: | An oversight in pleading or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight |
| Jeopard: | To put in jeopardy to expose to loss or injury to imperil to jeopardize to hazard |
| jeoparder: | One who puts in jeopardy |
| jeopardize: | To expose to loss or injury to risk |
| Jeopardous: | Perilous hazardous |
| Jeopardy: | Exposure to death loss or injury hazard danger |
| Jeopardy: | To jeopardize |
| Jequirity: | The seed of the wild licorice Abrus precatorius used by the people of India for beads in rosaries and necklaces as a standard weight etc called also jumble bead |
| Jerboa: | Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus esp Dipus 92gyptius which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail |
| Jereed: | A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant especially in mock fights |
| Jeremiad: | A tale of sorrow disappointment or complaint a doleful story a dolorous tirade generally used satirically |
| Jerfalcon: | The gyrfalcon |
| Jerguer: | See Jerquer |
| Jerid: | Same as Jereed |
| Jerk: | To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun as to jerk beef See Charqui |
| Jerk: | To make a sudden motion to move with a start or by starts |
| Jerkin: | A jacket or short coat a close waistcoat |
| Jerkin: | A male gyrfalcon |
| Jerking: | The act of pulling pushing or throwing with a jerk |
| Jerkinhead: | The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height leaving a truncated gable |
| jerkoff: | A lazy foolish stupid or otherwise contemptible person an offensive and disparaging term |
| jerkoff: | To masturbate |
| jerkwater: | small and remote and insignificant as a jerkwater college |
| jerky: | Moving by jerks and starts characterized by abrupt transitions as a jerky vehicle a jerky style |
| jerky: | Meat especially beef that has been cut in strips and dried meat that has been jerked see first jerk v as beef jerky |
| Jermoonal: | The Himalayan snow partridge |
| Jeronymite: | One belonging of the medival religious orders called Hermits of St Jerome |
| Jeropigia: | See Geropigia |
| Jerquer: | A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods |
| Jerquing: | The searching of a ship for unentered goods |
| Jerquing: | The searching of a ship for unentered goods |
| Jerry: | Flimsy jerrybuilt |
| Jerrybuilder: | A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction |
| Jerrybuilt: | Built hastily and of bad materials as jerrybuilt houses |
| Jerusalem: | The chief city of Palestine intimately associated with the glory of the Jewish nation and the life and death of Jesus Christ |
| Jervine: | A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine and found with it in white hellebore Veratrum album called also jervina |
| Jess: | A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk to which the leash or line wrapped round the falconers hand was attached when used See Illust of Falcon |
| Jessamine: | Same as Jasmine |
| Jessant: | Springing up or emerging said of a plant or animal |
| Jesse: | Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ in decorative art |
| Jessed: | Having jesses on as a hawk |
| Jester: | A buffoon a merryandrew a court fool |
| Jestful: | Given to jesting full of jokes |
| Jesting: | Sportive not serious fit for jests |
| Jesting: | The act or practice of making jests joking pleasantry |
| Jestingly: | In a jesting manner |
| Jesu: | Jesus |
| Jesuit: | One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola and approved in 1540 under the title of The Society of Jesus |
| Jesuited: | Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits |
| Jesuitess: | One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633 |
| Jesuitically: | In a jesuitical manner |
| Jesuitocracy: | Government by Jesuits also the whole body of Jesuits in a country |
| Jesuitry: | Jesuitism subtle argument |
| Jesus: | The Savior the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents the personal name of Our Lord in distinction from Christ his official appellation |
| Jet: | Same as 2d Get |
| Jet: | A variety of lignite of a very compact texture and velvet black color susceptible of a good polish and often wrought into mourning jewelry toys buttons etc Formerly called also black amber |
| Jet: | To spout to emit in a stream or jet |
| Jetblack: | Black as jet deep black See first jet |
| dJetdeau: | A stream of water spouting esp upward from a fountain or pipe for ornament also the fountain or pipe from which it issues |
| dJeterus: | A yellowness of the parts of plants which are normally green yellows |
| dJetsam: | Goods which sink when cast into the sea and remain under water distinguished from flotsam goods which float and ligan or lagan goods which are sunk attached to a buoy |
| jetset: | an international group of wealthy individuals who travel frequently to international resorts the group is not organized but membership is defined solely by frequent travel for pleasure |
| jetsetter: | a member of the jet set |
| jetsetting: | frequent international travel for pleasure as contrasted with business |
| Jetteau: | See Jet deau |
| Jettee: | See Jetty n |
| Jetter: | One who struts one who bears himself jauntily a fop |
| Jettiness: | The state of being jetty blackness |
| jetting: | being propelled violently in a usually narrow stream of liquids |
| Jetton: | A metal counter used in playing cards |
| Jetty: | Made of jet or like jet in color |
| Jetty: | To jut out to project |
| dJeudesprit: | A witticism |
| dJeunessedore: | Lit gilded youth young people of wealth and fashion esp if given to prodigal living in the French Revolution applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror |
| Jew: | Originally one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah after the return from the Babylonish captivity any member of the new state a Hebrew an Israelite |
| Jewbaiter: | someone who hates and would persecute Jews an antiSemite |
| Jewbush: | A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus Pedilanthus tithymaloides found in the West Indies and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities |
| Jewel: | To dress adorn deck or supply with jewels as a dress a sword hilt or a watch to bespangle as with jewels to bejewel |
| jeweled: | covered with beads or jewels or sequins |
| Jeweler: | One who makes or deals in jewels precious stones and similar ornaments |
| Jewellery: | See Jewelry |
| jewelsofopar: | An erect plant Talinum paniculatum with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers grwing from Southwestern North America to Central America it has been widely introduced elsewhere |
| Jewelweed: | See Impatiens |
| Jewess: | A female Jew a Hebrew woman a female adherent of Judaism |
| Jewfish: | A very large serranoid fish Promicrops itaiara of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds Its color is olivaceous or yellowish with numerous brown spots Called also guasa and warsaw |
| Jewise: | Same as Juise |
| Jewish: | Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs Israelitish |
| Jewishcalendar: | A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples reckoning from the year 3761 b c the date traditionally given for the Creation |
| Jewry: | Judea also a district inhabited by Jews a Jews quarter |
| Jewsear: | A widely distributed species of edible fungus Auricularia auriculajudae formerly Hirneola AuriculaJud or Hirneola Auricula bearing some resemblance to the human ear and growing on decaying wood |
| Jewsharp: | An instrument of music which when placed between the teeth gives by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger a sound which is modulated by the breath called also Jewstrump |
| Jewsstone: | A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin |
| Jezebel: | A bold vicious woman a termagant |
| Jharal: | A wild goat Capra Jemlaica which inhabits the loftiest mountains of India It has long coarse hair forming a thick mane on its head and neck |
| Jib: | To move restively backward or sidewise said of a horse to balk |
| Jib: | To shift or swing round as a sail boom yard etc as in tacking |
| Jibber: | A horse that jibs |
| Jibe: | To shift as the boom of a foreandaft sail from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter See Gybe |
| Jibe: | To change a ships course so as to cause a shifting of the boom See Jibe v t and Gybe |
| Jiffy: | A moment an instant as I will be ready in a jiffy |
| Jig: | To dance a jig to skip about |
| jigaboo: | A negro especially an AfricanAmerican an offensive term usually intended as an ethnic slur |
| Jigger: | A species of flea Tunga penetrans or Sarcopsylla penetrans or Pulex penetrans which burrows beneath the skin called also jigger flea See Chigoe |
| Jigger: | One who or that which jigs specifically a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging also the sieve used in jigging |
| Jigger: | To move send or drive with a jerk to jerk also to drive or send over with a jerk as a golf ball |
| jiggerypokery: | A verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of a person in some way |
| Jigging: | The act or using a jig the act of separating ore with a jigger or wirebottomed sieve which is moved up and down in water |
| Jiggish: | Resembling or suitable for a jig or lively movement |
| Jiggle: | To wriggle or frisk about to move awkwardly to shake up and down |
| Jigjog: | A jolting motion a jogging pace |
| Jigjog: | Having a jolting motion |
| Jihad: | A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics also any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief |
| Jill: | A young woman a sweetheart See Gill |
| Jillflirt: | A light giddy or wanton girl or woman See Gillflirt |
| Jilt: | A woman who capriciously deceives her lover a coquette a flirt |
| Jilt: | To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly as a lover to deceive in love |
| Jilt: | To play the jilt to practice deception in love to discard lovers capriciously |
| Jimcrack: | See Gimcrack |
| JimCrow: | A negro said to be so called from a popular negro dance song the refrain of which is bdWheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crowb8 produced in 1835 by Thomas D Rice 18081860 a famous negro minstrel considered disparaging and offensive |
| Jimcrow: | For negroes only set aside for used of negroes as a policy of racial discrimination |
| Jimcrow: | A machine for bending or straightening rails |
| jimdandy: | someone excellent of their kind as hes a jimdandy of a soldier |
| jimhickey: | Same as jimdandy |
| jimmies: | Small cylindrical bits of sweet chocolate used as a granular topping on eg ice cream |
| Jimmy: | A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors |
| jimmy: | An immigrant |
| jimmy: | To pry open a door window etc with a jimmy or similar device often used with open as the burglar jimmied open the back door and stole the TV set |
| Jimp: | Neat handsome elegant See Gimp |
| Jimsonweed: | See Jamestown weed |
| Jin: | See Jinnee |
| Jingal: | A small portable piece of ordnance mounted on a swivel |
| Jingle: | To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell or as coins shaken together to tinkle |
| Jingle: | A rattling clinking or tinkling sound as of little bells or pieces of metal |
| Jingler: | One who or that which jingles |
| Jingling: | The act or process of producing a jingle also the sound itself a chink |
| Jinglingly: | So as to jingle |
| jingoism: | The policy of the Jingoes so called See Jingo 2 |
| jingoist: | One who is jingoistic a bellicose patriot an extreme bellicose nationalist an aggressive chauvinist |
| jingoistic: | fanatically and bellicosely patriotic aggressively chauvinistic belligerent in international relations |
| Jink: | To move quickly esp with a sudden turn hence to dodge to escape by a quick turn obs or dial except as a hunting term in pigsticking |
| jinks: | noisy and mischievous merrymaking |
| Jinnee: | A genius or demon one of the fabled genii good and evil spirits supposed to be the children of fire and to have the power of assuming various forms |
| Jinnyroad: | An inclined road in a coal mine on which loaded cars descend by gravity drawing up empty ones |
| Jinrikisha: | A small twowheeled hooded vehicle drawn by one or more men |
| jinx: | A person object influence or supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong |
| jinx: | To bring bad luck to to cause to malfunction or go wrong as some superstitious people are reluctant to predict success for fear it will jinx them |
| Jippo: | A waistcoat or kind of stays for women |
| jiqui: | A Cuban timber tree Malpighia obovata with hard wood very resistant to moisture |
| jird: | Any of several North African gerbils |
| jitney: | a small bus or similar vehicle carrying passengers on a fixed route used for public transport |
| jitterbug: | a fast and vigorous American dance that was popular in the 1940s having few standardized steps and personalized with various twirls twists and acrobatic moves it was performed often to the accompaniment of swing or boogiewoogie tunes |
| jitterbug: | to do the jitterbug |
| jitters: | an uneasy state nervousness as the prospect of being drafted gave him a bad case of the jitters |
| jittery: | being in a tense state easily upset or frightened of a person |
| jiujitsu: | a method of selfdefense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attackers own weight and strength |
| jive: | a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz |
| Jnr: | Abbreviation for Junior used after a name by a son who has the same first and last name as his father less commonly used than Jr |
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