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<A NAME="jackbean">
<B>jack bean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tropical American plant of the pea family, with purple and white flowers and white seeds, grown especially for forage. <DD><B> 2. </B>its seed. </DL>
<A NAME="jackboot">
<B>jackboot, </B>noun, verb,<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a heavy boot reaching above the knee. <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar boot worn by German soldiers during World War II. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>rough, bullying measures; jackboot tactics. <DD><B> b. </B>a person who uses rough, bullying measures. <BR> <I>Ex. a trigger-happy jackboot bent on grabbing full power (Time).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make by using rough, bullying measures. <BR> <I>Ex. German ... troops were jackbooting their way around the northwestern section of Czechoslovakia (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jackbooted">
<B>jackbooted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>wearing or worn with jackboots. <BR> <I>Ex. a jackbooted soldier, a jack-booted uniform.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) militant; aggressive; violent. </DL>
<A NAME="jackboottactics">
<B>jackboot tactics,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> rough, bullying measures to achieve compliance or submission. </DL>
<A NAME="jackcrevalle">
<B>jack crevalle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a carangoid fish of the eastern coast of tropical America, much valued as a game and food fish. </DL>
<B>jackdaw, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small crow of Europe and North Africa, living in flocks especially around old buildings and towers or in holes in trees; daw. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several North American grackles, such as the boat-tailed grackle. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a talkative person. </DL>
<A NAME="jackeen">
<B>jackeen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Irish.) an aggressive city fellow. </DL>
<A NAME="jacker">
<B>jacker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one that jacks. </DL>
<A NAME="jackeroo">
<B>jackeroo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-roos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a young apprentice working at a cattle or sheep ranch in the bush of Australia. </DL>
<A NAME="jacket">
<B>jacket, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a short coat, usually having sleeves. <DD><B> 2. </B>an outer covering. The paper cover for a book, the casing around a steam pipe, the metal covering on a bullet, and the skin of a potato are jackets. <DD><B> 3. </B>a paper or envelope used to cover an official document. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put a jacket on; cover with a jacket. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to beat; thrash. <BR><I>expr. <B>dust one's jacket,</B> </I>(British Informal.) to beat someone. <BR> <I>Ex. the threat to dust the author's jacket, for the gratification of private malice (L. J. Jennings).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jackfish">
<B>jackfish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pike, especially a young or small one. </DL>
<A NAME="jackfrost">
<B>Jack Frost,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> frost or freezing weather thought of as a person. </DL>
<B>jackhammer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pneumatic drill used especially on rock and concrete. </DL>
<A NAME="jackinabox">
<B>jack-in-a-box, </B>noun, pl. <B>-boxes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=jack-in-the-box </B>(def. 1). <DD><B> 2. </B>a tree of Pacific islands and the East Indies bearing a large nut that rattles in its casing when shaken. </DL>
<A NAME="jackinthebox">
<B>jack-in-the-box, </B>noun, pl. <B>-boxes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a toy figure that springs up from a box when the lid is opened. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) <B>=hermit crab.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="jackinthepulpit">
<B>jack-in-the-pulpit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plant with a greenish, petallike sheath arched over the upright flower stalk; Indian turnip; wake-robin. It is a perennial herb of North America that belongs to the arum family. </DL>
<A NAME="jackketch">
<B>Jack Ketch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a public executioner; hangman. </DL>
<A NAME="jackknife">
<B>jackknife, </B>noun, pl. <B>-knives,</B> verb, <B>-knifed,</B> <B>-knifing,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a large, strong pocketknife. <DD><B> 2. </B>a kind of dive in which the diver, keeping his knees straight, touches his feet with his hands in midair and straightens out before entering the water. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Theater.) a rolling platform for changing scenery, attached to the stage floor at one place, and pivoted so that it can be rotated on and off stage. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to double up like a jackknife. <BR> <I>Ex. Never jackknife an injured person into a car seat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cut with a jackknife. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to double up like a jackknife. <DD><B> 2. </B>to dive into the water doubled up like this. <DD><B> 3. </B>to turn at a sharp angle like a jackknife. <BR> <I>Ex. It has been estimated that ... an articulated vehicle jackknifes on average once in every 50,000 miles (New Scientist).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>like a jackknife; turning or rotating like a jackknife. <BR> <I>Ex. a jackknife bridge, a jackknife stage.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>like that of a jackknife or jackknife dive. <BR> <I>Ex. By a jackknife motion, a skilful athlete can jump over a bar whilst his centre of gravity is actually below it (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jackladder">
<B>jackladder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Nautical.) a ladder having rope sides and wooden or metal rungs; Jacob's ladder. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in lumbering) a gangway. </DL>
<A NAME="jackleg">
<B>jackleg</B> (1), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>not skilled or professional; amateur. <BR> <I>Ex. a jackleg logger, a jackleg carpenter.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>using questionable or dishonest practices; unscrupulous. <BR> <I>Ex. a jackleg lawyer.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>temporary; makeshift. <BR> <I>Ex. a jackleg platform.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a jackleg person or thing. </DL>
<A NAME="jackleg">
<B>jackleg</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device on which a jackhammer is mounted to keep it in line with the advancing hole. </DL>
<A NAME="jacklight">
<B>jack light,</B> or <B>jacklight, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a light for hunting or fishing at night, especially one, such as a strong flashlight, that attracts fish or game. </DL>
<A NAME="jacklight">
<B>jack-light</B> or <B>jacklight, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) to hunt or fish with a light. </DL>
<A NAME="jackmackerel">
<B>jack mackerel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a carangoid food fish similar to the saurel, found on the Pacific coast of the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="jackmormon">
<B>Jack Mormon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a non-Mormon who is friendly or sympathetic toward Mormons. <DD><B> 2. </B>a Mormon who is not religiously active or observant. </DL>
<A NAME="jackofalltrades">
<B>jack of all trades,</B> or <B>jack-of-all-trades, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who can do many different kinds of work fairly well. <BR> <I>Ex. a jack of all trades and master of none.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing that can be easily adapted to many different uses; something that has versatility. <BR> <I>Ex. This jack-of-all-trades is the small private aircraft.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jackolantern">
<B>jack-o'-lantern, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a pumpkin hollowed out and cut to look like a face, used as a lantern at Halloween. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=will-o'-the wisp.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="jackolent">
<B>Jack-o'-Lent, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a figure set up to be pelted during Lent. <DD><B> 2. </B>a butt, as of ridicule. </DL>
<A NAME="jackpine">
<B>jack pine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a slender pine tree growing in barren or rocky soil in the northeastern and midwestern United States and in Canada. </DL>
<A NAME="jackplane">
<B>jack plane,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a carpenter's plane used for rough shaving. </DL>
<A NAME="jackpot">
<B>jackpot, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> Also, <B>jack pot.</B> <B>1. </B>the stakes that accumulate in a poker game until some player wins with a pair of jacks or something better. <DD><B> 2a. </B>any cumulative pool, such as a large prize, that is competed for regularly and is increased as contestants fail to gain it. <BR> <I>Ex. That television quiz show has built up a jackpot of over $100,000.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any large gain. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a jackpot. <BR><I>expr. <B>hit the</B> (or <B>a</B>) <B>jackpot,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to win a big prize. </I> <I>Ex. While they might collect on bonds, few Canadians could hit big jackpots in the pools, say the British, because of the expert knowledge of football required (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to have a stroke of very good luck. <BR> <I>Ex. When a conductor manages ... to hit a sort of musical jackpot of rightness, it doesn't take a trained ear to sense the benefits (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jackrabbit">
<B>jack rabbit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large hare of western North America, having very long hind legs and long ears. <BR> <I>Ex. The jack rabbit ... is just like any other rabbit except that he is from one-third to twice as large, has longer legs in proportion to his size, and has the most preposterous ears that ever were mounted on any creature but a jackass (Mark Twain).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jackrafter">
<B>jack-rafter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a shorter rafter, as in a hip roof. </DL>
<A NAME="jackrussellterrier">
<B>Jack Russell terrier</B> or <B>Jack Russell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a working terrier of an English breed with a short, thick, mainly white coat. </DL>
<A NAME="jacks">
<B>jacks, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>jack</B> (1). </DL>
<A NAME="jacksalmon">
<B>jack salmon,</B> <B>=walleyed pike.</B></DL>
<A NAME="jackscrew">
<B>jackscrew, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tool or machine for lifting heavy weights short distances, operated by a screw. <BR> <I>Ex. You may have seen workmen lift the corner of a house with a large jackscrew (Beauchamp, Mayfield, and West).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="jacksmelt">
<B>jacksmelt, </B>noun, pl. <B>-smelts</B> or (collectively) <B>-smelt.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a silversides of the California coast that grows to a length of 22 inches. </DL>
<A NAME="jacksnipe">
<B>jacksnipe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a very small European snipe; half snipe. <DD><B> 2. </B>a snipe such as Wilson's snipe of America. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=pectoral sandpiper.</B> </DL>
