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- English Word Jackman Definition One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n.
- English Word Jackman Definition A cream cheese.
- English Word Jackmen Definition of Jackman
- English Word Jackpudding Definition A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
- English Word Jacksaw Definition The merganser.
- English Word Jackscrew Definition A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.
- English Word Jackslave Definition A low servant; a mean fellow.
- English Word Jacksmith Definition A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c.
- English Word Jacksnipe Definition A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.
- English Word Jacksnipe Definition A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
- English Word Jackstay Definition A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.
- English Word Jackstone Definition One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
- English Word Jackstone Definition A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
- English Word Jackstraw Definition One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.
- English Word Jackstraw Definition An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
- English Word Jackwood Definition Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.
- English Word Jacob Definition 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.
- English Word Jacobaean lily Definition A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower.
- English Word Jacobean Definition Alt. of Jacobian
- English Word Jacobian Definition Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England.