JACKWOOD
Jack"wood`, n.
Defn: Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.
JACKY
Jack"y, n.; pl. Jackies (#). Dim. or pet from Jack. Hence:
(a) A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter.
(b) English gin. [Dial. Eng.]
JACOB
Ja"cob, n. Etym: [Cf. F. Jacob. See 2d Jack.]
Defn: 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.
And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now
I am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10.
Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. Gen. xxxii. 28.
Jacob's ladder. (a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus Polemonium
(P. coeruleum), having corymbs of drooping flowers, usually blue.
Gray. (b) (Naut.) A rope ladder, with wooden steps, for going aloft.
R. H. Dana, Jr. (c) (Naut.) A succession of short cracks in a
defective spar.
— Jacob's membrane. See Retina.
— Jacob's staff. (a) A name given to many forms of staff or weapon,
especially in the Middle Ages; a pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Spenser. (b)
(Surveying) See under Staff.
JACOBAEAN LILY
Jac`o*bæ"an lil"y. Etym: [See Jacobean.] (Bot.)
Defn: A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, or Sprekelia, formosissima) from
Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower.
[Written also Jacobean.]
JACOBEAN; JACOBIAN
Ja*co"be*an, Ja*co"bi*an, a. Etym: [From L. Jacobus James. See 2d
Jack.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.
JACOBIN
Jac"o*bin, n. Etym: [F. See 2d Jack, Jacobite.]