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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>JACKSONI</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="jacksonian"> Jacksonian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or like Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States, or his principles. Ex. Andrew Jackson would have been irate had he known how often a vaguely romantic conception of human equality would be defended by calling it Jacksonian (Newsweek). <DD>noun a follower of Andrew Jackson. </DL> <A NAME="jackspaniard"> jack-spaniard, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain paper wasps of the West Indies. </DL> <A NAME="jackstaff"> jackstaff, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical.) a short staff, set on the bowsprit or at the bow of a boat or ship, to display a ship's colors. </DL> <A NAME="jackstay"> jackstay, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a rope, cable, or iron rod along a yard or gaff, to which the head of a sail is attached. <DD> 2. a vertical rod or rope running along the forward side of a mast, on which a yard is raised or lowered. </DL> <A NAME="jackstone"> jackstone, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small metal object or pebble used in the game of jacks; jack. expr. jackstones, the game of jacks. Ex. The women ... amuse themselves with ... jackstones (Henry M. Brackenridge). </DL> <A NAME="jackstraw"> jackstraw, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a straw or strip of wood, bone, or plastic, used in the game of jackstraws. <DD> 2. =man of straw. expr. jackstraws, a child's game played with a set of straws thrown down in a confused pile. Each player tries to pick them up one at a time without moving any of the rest of the pile. Ex. I ... have no sort of presence of mind (not so much as one would use to play at jackstraws) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). </DL> <A NAME="jacktar"> Jack Tar or jack tar,<DL COMPACT><DD> a sailor. Ex. a jolly warmhearted Jack Tar (Charles Lamb). </DL> <A NAME="jacktowel"> jack towel,<DL COMPACT><DD> a towel with the ends sewed together, on a roller; roller towel. </DL> <A NAME="jackup"> jack-up, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (U.S.) an increase. Ex. another jack-up in short-term rates. <DD> 2. a type of rig for offshore oil drilling, on which legs are lowered to the seabed from the operating platform. </DL> <A NAME="jacky"> jacky (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) gin. </DL> <A NAME="jacky"> jacky (2), noun, pl. jackies. =sailor.</DL> <A NAME="jacky"> Jacky, noun, pl. Jackies. =sailor.</DL> <A NAME="jackyard"> jack yard,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical.) <DD> 1. a light yard used to extend the head of a square-cut gaff-topsail. <DD> 2. a spar to extend the foot of a gaff-topsail beyond the peak. </DL> <A NAME="jacob"> Jacob, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the son of Isaac and Rebecca and younger twin brother of Esau; Israel. The 12 tribes of Israel traced their descent from Jacob's 12 sons (in the Bible, Genesis 25-50). </DL> <A NAME="jacobean"> Jacobean, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. of King James I of England. <DD> 2. of the period of his reign, from 1603 to 1625. Jacobean architecture and furniture are Late English Gothic with a large admixture of Italian forms. Jacobean literature, especially poetry and drama, was at or near its height during this time. <DD>noun a statesman or writer of the time of James I. </DL> <A NAME="jacobeanlily"> jacobean lily,<DL COMPACT><DD> a spring-blooming, Mexican plant of the amaryllis family, bearing a single crimson flower. </DL> <A NAME="jacobethan"> Jacobethan, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of a style combining or mixing the Jacobean and Elizabethan. Ex. Jacobethan furniture, Jacobethan mansions. </DL> <A NAME="jacobian"> Jacobian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with the theories of the German mathematician Karl Gustav J. Jacobi (1804-1851). <DD>noun (Mathematics.) a determinant of two or more functions in two or more variables. </DL> <A NAME="jacobin"> jacobin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a breed of the domestic pigeon whose neck feathers form a kind of hood. </DL> <A NAME="jacobin"> Jacobin, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a member of a radical political club organized in 1789 during the French Revolution in the old Convent of Saint James (Jacques) in Paris. <DD> 2. an extreme radical, especially in politics. <DD> 3. a Dominican friar. <DD>adj. 1. having to do with the revolutionary Jacobins. <DD> 2. extremely radical in politics. <DD> 3. of or belonging to the Dominican friars. </DL> <A NAME="jacobinic"> Jacobinic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characteristic of the French Jacobins; radical. adv. Jacobinically. </DL> <A NAME="jacobinical"> Jacobinical, adjective. =Jacobinic.</DL> <A NAME="jacobinism"> Jacobinism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the principles of the French Jacobins. <DD> 2. extreme radicalism, especially in politics. </DL> <A NAME="jacobinize"> Jacobinize, transitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make Jacobin; imbue with radical ideas. </DL> <A NAME="jacobite"> Jacobite (1), noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a supporter of James II and his descendants (the Stuart family) in their claims to the English throne after the English Revolution of 1688. <DD>adj. of or having to do with the Jacobites. Ex. the Jacobite rebellions. </DL> <A NAME="jacobite"> Jacobite (2), noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a member of the Monophysitic Syrian church, governed by the patriarch of Antioch. <DD>adj. of the Jacobites or their beliefs. </DL> <A NAME="jacobitic"> Jacobitic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with the British Jacobites. </DL> <A NAME="jacobitical"> Jacobitical, adjective. =Jacobitic.</DL> <A NAME="jacobitism"> Jacobitism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles of the Jacobites; adherence to or sympathy with the cause of the Stuarts. </DL> <A NAME="jacobmonod"> Jacob-Monod, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the theory that genes are controlled by the mechanism called the operon, first advanced by the French scientists Francois Jacob, born 1920, and Jacques Monod, born 1910. </DL> <A NAME="jacobsladder"> Jacob's ladder,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a ladder to heaven that Jacob saw in a dream (in the Bible, Genesis 28:12). <DD> 2. a rope ladder with wooden or metal rungs, used on ships especially by pilots who are boarding or leaving. </DL> <A NAME="jacobsladder"> Jacob's-ladder, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a common European garden plant of the same family as the phlox, with blue or white flowers and ladderlike leaves. <DD> 2. any one of certain related species. <DD> 3. =Jacob's ladder (def. 2). </DL> <A NAME="jacobsonsorgan"> Jacobson's organ,<DL COMPACT><DD> either one of the cavities in the roof of the mouth of most vertebrates, which contain branches of the olfactory nerve, undeveloped in man, but highly developed in most reptiles. </DL> <A NAME="jacobsstaff"> Jacob's staff,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a support for a surveyor's compass, consisting of a single leg with a steel point to be stuck in the ground, and having at the other end a brass head with a ball-and-socket joint. <DD> 2. =cross-staff. </DL> <A NAME="jacobus"> jacobus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an English gold coin minted under James I, worth originally 20 shillings, later 24. </DL> <A NAME="jaconet"> jaconet, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soft, light cotton cloth with a smooth finish, originally imported from India. </DL> <A NAME="jacquard"> jacquard or Jacquard, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a fabric with a figured weave. <DD>adj. woven on a Jacquard loom. Ex. jacquard cotton. </DL> <A NAME="jacquardloom"> Jacquard loom,<DL COMPACT><DD> a loom with an apparatus, more advanced than the heddle, for weaving figured fabrics. </DL> <A NAME="jacquardweave"> Jacquard weave,<DL COMPACT><DD> a type of weave, produced on a Jacquard loom, that is a combination of two or more ordinary weaves. </DL> <A NAME="jacquerie"> jacquerie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any revolt of peasants. </DL> <A NAME="jacquerie"> Jacquerie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the revolt of the peasants of France against the nobles in 1358. </DL> <A NAME="jactaaleaest"> jacta alea est,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) the die is cast. </DL> <A NAME="jactation"> jactation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a boasting; bragging. <DD> 2. (Medicine.) jactitation. </DL> <A NAME="jactitation"> jactitation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Law.) a false claim involving harm to another. <DD> 2. a boastful declaration; bragging. <DD> 3. (Medicine.) a restless and convulsive tossing of the body in disease. </DL> <A NAME="jaculate"> jaculate, verb, -lated, -lating.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to dart; hurl. <DD>v.i. to dart forward. noun jaculation. </DL> <A NAME="jacuzzi"> Jacuzzi, noun. or Jacuzzi bath,<DL COMPACT><DD> a bath in which a device is used to make the water whirl and churn. </DL> <A NAME="jade"> jade (1), noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a hard stone used for jewelry and ornaments; jadeite or nephrite. Most jade is green, but some is whitish. <DD> 2. any of various other stones of similar appearance and use. <DD> 3. an object or carving made from jade. Ex. a collection of jades. <DD> 4. a light green; jade green. <DD>adj. light-green; jade-green. adj. jadelike. </DL> <A HREF="jaded.dic">NEXT</A>