JAB'BER, verb intransitive To talk rapidly or indistinctly; to chatter; to prate.

JAB'BER, noun Rapid talk with indistinct utterance of words.

JAB'BERER, noun One that talks rapidly, indistinctly or unintelligibly.

JAB'BERING, participle present tense Prating; talking rapidly and confusedly.

JAB'BERMENT, noun Idle prate.

JAB'IRU, noun An aquatic fowl of the crane kind.

The jabiru is the Mycteria Americana. It resembles the stork.

JAC'AMAR, noun A kind of fowls arranged by Linne under the genus Alcedo; but their toes are differently placed, and their food consists of insects. They are about the size of a lark. Numerous species are described.

The Jacamars are arranged in a separate genus, Galbula, and along with the woodpeckers in the order of climbers.

JA'CENT, adjective [Latin jacens, jaceo, to lie.] Lying at length.

JA'CINTH, noun [a different orthography of Hyacinth.]

1. A genus of plants. [See Hyacinth.]

2. A species of pellucid gems. [See Hyacinth.] Revelation 21:20.

JACK, noun

1. A nickname or diminutive of John, used as a general term of contempt for any saucy of paltry fellow.

2. The name of an instrument that supplies the place of a boy; an instrument to pull off boots.

3. An engine to turn a spit; as a kitchen jack; a smoke jack

4. A young pike.

5. A coat of mail.

6. A pitcher of waxed leather.

7. A small bowl thrown out for a mark to the bowlers.

8. Part of a musical instrument called a virginal.

9. The male of certain animals, as of the ass.

10. A horse or wooden frame on which wood or timer is sawed.

11. In sea-language, a flag, ensign or colors, displayed from a staff on the end of a bow-sprit.

12. In Yorkshire, half a pint. A quarter of a pint.

JACK of all trades, a person who can turn his hand to any king of business.

JACK by the hedge, a plant of the genus Erysimum, that grown under hedges.

JACK in a box, a plant of the genus Hernandia.

1. A large wooden male screw, turning in a female one.

JACK with a lantern, an ignis fatuus, a meteor that appears in low moist lands.

JACK of the clock-house, a little man that strikes the quarters in a clock.

JACK'AL, noun An animal of the genus Canis, resembling a dog and a fox; a native of Asia and Africa. It preys on poultry and other small animals. It is the Canis aureus of Linne.

JACK'ALENT, noun [Jack in lent, a poor starved fellow.]

A simple sheepish fellow.

JACK'ANAPES, noun [jack and ape.] A monkey, an ape.

1. A coxcomb; an impertinent fellow.

A young upstart jackanapes

JACK'ASS, noun The male of the ass.

JACK'-BLOCK, noun A block attached to the top-gallant-tie of a ship, to sway up or to strike the yard.

JACK'BOOTS, noun Boots that serve as armor for the legs.

JACK'DAW, noun [jack and daw.] A fowl of the genus Corvus, thievish and mischievous to the farmer.

JACK'ET, noun A short close garment worn by males, extending downwards to the hips; a short coat.

JACK'ETED, adjective Wearing a jacket.

JACK'FLAG, noun A flag hoisted at the sprit-sail top-mast-head.

JACK'PUDDING, noun [jack and pudding.] A merry Andrew; a buffoon; a zany.

JACK'SMITH, noun A smith who makes jacks for the chimney.

JAC'OBIN, noun [So named from the place of meeting, which was the monastery of the monks called Jacobines.]

The Jacobins, in France, during the late revolution, were a society of violent revolutionists, who held secret meetings in which measures were concerted to direct the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence, a jacobin is the member of a club, or other person, who opposes government in a secret and unlawful manner or by violent means; a turbulent demagogue.

JAC'OBINE, noun A monk of the order of Dominicans.

1. A pigeon with a high tuft.

JACOBIN'IC

JACOBIN'ICAL, adjective Resembling the Jacobins of France; turbulent; discontented with government; holding democratic principles.

JACOBIN'ICAL, a. Resembling the Jacobins of France; turbulent; discontented with government; holding democratic principles.

JAC'OBINISM, noun Jacobinic principles; unreasonable or violent opposition to legitimate government; an attempt to overthrow or change government by secret cabals or irregular means; popular turbulence.

JAC'OBINIZE, verb transitive To taint with Jacobinism.

JAC'OBITE, noun [from Jacobus, James.] A partizan or adherent of James II, king of England, after he abdicated the throne, and of his descendants; of course, an opposer of the revolution in 1688, in favor of William and Mary.

1. One of a sect of christians in Syria and Mesopotamia, who hold that Jesus Christ had but one nature.

JAC'OBITE, adjective Pertaining to the partizans of James II.

JAC'OBITISM, noun The principles of the partizans of James II.

JAC'OBUS, noun [Jacobus, James.] A gold coin, value twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

JACONET', noun A kind of coarse muslin.

JAC'TANCY, noun [Latin jactantia.] A boasting. [Not used.]

JAC'TITATION, noun [Latin jactito, jacto. It ought rather to be jactation, Latin jactatio.]

1. A tossing of the body; restlessness.

2. A term in the canon law for a false pretension to marriage; vain boasting.

JAC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin jaculor.] To dart.

JACULA'TION, noun The action of darting, throwing or lanching, as missive weapons.

JAC'ULATOR, noun The shooting fish, a species of Chaetodon.

JAC'ULATORY, adjective Darting or throwing out suddenly, or suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences. [See Ejaculatory.]

JADE, noun

1. A mean or poor horse; a tired horse; a worthless nag.

Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.

2. A mean woman; a word of contempt, noting sometimes age, but generally vice.

She shines the first of battered jades.

3. A young woman; in irony or slight contempt.

JADE, noun A mineral called also nephrite or nephritic stone, remarkable for its hardness and tenacity, of a color more or less green, and of a resinous or oily aspect when polished. It is fusible into a glass or enamel. Cleveland divides jade into three subspecies, nephrite, saussurite, and axestone. It is found in detached masses or inhering in rocks.

JADE, verb transitive To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.

1. To weary with attention or study; to tire.

The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power, is very hardly brought to exert its force again.

2. To harass; to crush.

3. To tire or wear out in mean offices; as a jaded groom.

4. To ride; to rule with tyranny.

I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

JADE, verb intransitive To become weary; to lose spirit; to sink.

They are promising in the beginning, but they fail and jade and tire in the prosecution.

JA'DED, participle passive Tired; wearied; fatigued; harassed.

JA'DERY, noun The tricks of a jade.

JA'DING, participle present tense Tiring; wearying; harassing.

JA'DISH, adjective Vitious; bad, like a jade.

1. Unchaste.

JAG, noun A small load.

JAGG, verb transitive To notch; to cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw.

JAGG'

JAG , noun A tooth of a saw; a denticulation. In botany, a cleft or division.

JAG'GED, participle passive Notched; uneven.

1. Having notches or teeth; cleft; divided; laciniate; as jagged leaves.

JAG'GEDNESS, noun The state of being denticulated; unevenness.

JAG'GING, participle present tense Notching; cutting into teeth; dividing.

JAG'GY, adjective Set with teeth; denticulated; uneven.

JAGUAR', noun The American tiger, or once of Brasil, belonging to the genus Felis.

JAH, noun Jehovah.

JAIL, noun A prison; a building or place for the confinement of persons arrested for debt or for crime, and held in the custody of the sheriff.

JA'ILBIRD, noun A prisoner; one who has been confined in prison.

JA'ILER, noun The keeper of a prison.

JA'ILFEVER, noun A contagious and fatal fever generated in jails and other places crowded with people.

JAKES, noun [Latin jacio, to throw.] A house of office or back-house; a privy.

JAL'AP, noun The root of a plant, a species of Convolvulus. It is brought in thin transverse slices, and also whole, of an oval shape, hard, solid and heavy. It has little or no taste or smell, but is much used in powder as a cathartic.

JAM, noun A conserve of fruits boiled with sugar and water.

1. A kind of frock for children.

JAM, verb transitive

1. To press; to crowd; to wedge in.

2. In England, to tread hard or make firm by treading, as land by cattle.

JAM

JAMB, noun Among the lead miners of Mendip, a thick bed of stone which hinders them when pursuing the veins of ore.

JAMB, noun jam. In architecture, a supporter; the side-piece or post of a door; the side-piece of a fireplace.

JAMBEE', noun A name formerly given to a fashionable cane.

JAM'BEUX, noun [supra.] Armor for the legs.

JANE, noun A coin of Genoa.

1. A kind of fustian.

JAN'GLE, verb intransitive To quarrel in words; to altercate; to bicker; to wrangle.

JAN'GLE, verb transitive To cause to sound untunably or discordantly.

--E'er monkish rhymes

Had jangl'd their fantastic chimes.

JAN'GLER, noun A wrangling, noisy fellow.

JAN'GLING, participle present tense Wrangling; quarreling; sounding discordantly.

JAN'GLING, noun A noisy dispute; a wrangling.

JAN'ITOR, noun [Latin] A door-keeper; a porter.

JANIZA'RIAN, noun Pertaining to the Janizaries, or their government.

JAN'IZARY, noun A soldier of the Turkish foot guards. The Janizaries were a body of infantry, and reputed the grand Seignor's guards. They became turbulent, and rising in arms against the Sultan, were attacked, defeated and destroyed in Constantinople, in June 1826.

JAN'NOCK, noun Oat-bread. [Local.]

JAN'SENISM, noun The doctrine of Jansen in regard to free will and grace.

JAN'SENIST, noun A follower of Jansen, bishop of Ypres, in Flanders.

J'ANT, verb intransitive To ramble here and there; to make an excursion.

J'ANT, noun An excursion; a ramble; a short journey.

J'ANTILY, adverb [from janty.] Briskly; airily; gayly.

J'ANTINESS, noun Airiness; flutter; briskness.

J'ANTY, adjective Airy, showy; fluttering; finical.

JAN'UARY. noun [Latin januarius; Latin geno, to beget, Eng. to begin.]

The first month of the year, according to the present computation. At the foundation of Rome, March was considered the first month. january and February were introduced by Numa Pompilius.

JAPAN', noun [from the country in Asia, so called.]

This name is given to work varnished and figured in the manner practiced by the natives of japan

JAPANE'SE, adjective Pertaining to Japan or its inhabitants.

JAPANE'SE, noun A native of Japan; or the language of the inhabitants.

JAPAN'NED, participle passive Varnished in a particular manner.

JAPAN'NER, noun One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art.

1. A shoe-blacker.

JAPAN'NING, participle present tense Varnishing in the manner of the Japanese; giving a glossy black surface.

JAPAN'NING, noun The art of varnishing and drawing figures on wood or other material, in the manner practiced by the Japanese.

JAPE, verb intransitive To jest.

JAPE, verb transitive To cheat.

JAPE, noun A jest; a trick.

JA'PER, noun A jester.

JAPHET'IC, adjective Pertaining to Japheth, the eldest son of Noah; as the japhetic nations, which people the North of Asia and all Europe; japhetic languages.

JAP'U, noun A bird of Brazil that suspends its nest.

J'AR, verb intransitive To strike together with a short rattle or tremulous sound; to strike untunably or harshly; to strike discordantly; as a jarring sound.

A string may jar in the best master's hand.

1. To clash; to interfere; to act in opposition; to be inconsistent.

For orders and degrees

Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

2. To quarrel; to dispute; to clash in words.

3. To vibrate regularly; to repeat the same sound.

J'AR, verb transitive To shake; to cause to tremble; to cause a short tremulous motion in a thing.

J'AR, noun A rattling vibration of sound; a shake; as a trembling jar

1. A harsh sound; discord.

2. Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate.

And yet his peace is but continual jar

3. The state of a door half open, or ready to move and strike the post.

4. Repetition of the noise made by the pendulum of a clock.

J'AR, noun A vessel with a large belly and broad mouth, made of earth or glass; as a jar of honey.

We say, an electrical battery of nine jars.

1. A certain measure; as a jar of oil.

JARARACA, noun A species of serpent in America, seldom exceeding 18 inches in length, having prominent veins on its head, and of a dusky brownish color, variegated with red and black spots. It is very poisonous.

J'ARBLE

JARDES, noun Callous tumors on the legs of a horse, below the bend of the ham on the outside.

J'ARGLE, verb intransitive To emit a harsh or shrill sound. [Not in use.]

J'ARGON, noun

1. Confused, unintelligible talk or language; gabble; gibberish; cant.

All jargon of the schools.

2. A mineral, usually of a gray or greenish white color, in small irregular grains, or crystallized in quadrangular prisms surmounted with pyramids, or in octahedrons consisting of double quadrangular prisms. [See Zircon.]

JARGONELLE, noun jargonel'. A species of pear.

JARGON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the mineral jargon.

J'ARRED, participle passive [from jar.] Shaken.

J'ARRING, participle present tense Shaking; making a harsh sound; discordant.

J'ARRING, noun A shaking; discord; dispute; collision.

JAS'HAWK, noun A young hawk.

JAS'MIN

JAS'MINE, noun [It is sometimes written in English jessamine.]

A plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing beautiful flowers. There are several species. The common white jasmin is a climbing shrub, rising on supports 15 or 20 feet high. The name is also given to several plants of different genera; as the Arabian jasmin of the genus Nyctanthes; the bastard jasmin of the genus Cestrum, and also of the genus Lycium; the Persian jasmin of the genus Syringa; the red jasmin of the genus Plumeria; the scarlet and yellow jasmin of the genus Bignonia, etc.

JAS'MINE, n. [It is sometimes written in English jessamine.]

A plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing beautiful flowers. There are several species. The common white jasmin is a climbing shrub, rising on supports 15 or 20 feet high. The name is also given to several plants of different genera; as the Arabian Jasmin, of the genus Nyctanthes; the bastard Jasmin, of the genus Cestrum, and also of the genus Lycium; the Persian Jasmin, of the genus Syringa; the red Jasmin, of the genus Plumeria; the scarlet and yellow Jasmin, of the genus Bignonia, &c.

JAS'PACHATE, noun A name anciently given to some varieties of agate jasper.

J'ASPER, noun [Latin iaspis.] A mineral of the siliceous kind, and of several varieties. It is less hard than flint or even than common quartz, but gives fire with steel. It is entirely opake, or sometimes feebly translucent at the edges, and it presents almost every variety of color. Its varieties are common jasper striped jasper Egyptian jasper etc. It admits of an elegant polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff-boxes, etc.

Jasper is a subspecies of rhomboidal quartz, of five kinds, Egyptian, striped, porcelain, common, and agate jasper

J'ASPERATED, adjective Mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as a jasperated agate.

JASPIDE'AN, adjective Like jasper; consisting of jasper, or partaking of jasper.

J'ASPONYX, noun The purest horn-colored onyx, with beautiful green zones, composed of genuine matter of the finest jaspers.

JAUNCE, verb intransitive To bustle; to jaunt.

JAUNDICE, noun j'andis. A disease which is characterized by a suffusion of bile over the coats of the eye and the whole surface of the body, by which they are tinged with a yellow color. Hence its name.

JAUNDICED, adjective j'andised. Affected with the jaundice; suffused with a yellow color; as a jaundiced eye.

1. Prejudiced; seeing with discolored organs.

JAUNT. [See Jant.]

JAV'EL, verb transitive To bemire; and as a noun, a wandering or dirty fellow.

JAV'EL, verb transitive To bemire. [Not in use.]

JAV'ELIN, , noun A sort of spear about five feet and a half long, the shaft of which was of wood, but pointed with steel; used by horse or foot. Every Roman soldier carried seven javelins.

JAW, noun

1. The bones of the mouth in which the teeth are fixed. They resemble a horse shoe. In most animals, the under jaw only is movable.

2. The mouth.

3. In vulgar language, scolding, wrangling, abusive clamor.

JAW, verb intransitive To scold; to clamor. [Vulgar.]

JAW, verb transitive To abuse by scolding. [Vulgar.]

JAW'ED, adjective Denoting the appearance of the jaws.

JAW'FALL, noun [jaw and fall.] Depression of the jaw; figuratively, depression of spirits.

JAW'FALLEN, adjective Depressed in spirits; dejected.

JAWN, verb intransitive To yawn. [Not in use. See Yawn.]

JAW'Y, adjective Relating to the jaws.

JAY, noun A bird, the Corvus glandarius.

JAYET. [See Jet.]

JA'ZEL, noun A gem of an azure blue color.