Jadish () Unchaste; -- applied to a woman.

Jaeger () See Jager.

Jag () A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.

Jag () A part broken off; a fragment.

Jag () A cleft or division.

Jagged () of Jag

Jagging () of Jag

Jag () To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.

Jag () A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.

Jag () To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.

Jaganatha () Alt. of Jaganatha

Jaganatha () See Juggernaut.

Jager () A sharpshooter. See Yager.

Jager () Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua).

Jagg () See Jag.

Jagged () Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks.

Jagger () One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag.

Jagger () One who, or that which, jags; specifically: (a) jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. (b) A toothed chisel. See Jag, v. t.

Jaggery () Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis).

Jaggy () Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth.

Jaghir () A village or district the government and revenues of which are assigned to some person, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops.

Jaghirdar () The holder of a jaghir.

Jagua palm () A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs.

Jaguar () A large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger.

Jaguarondi () A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.

Jah () Jehovah.

Jail () A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

Jail () To imprison.

Jailer () The keeper of a jail or prison.

Jain () Alt. of Jaina

Jaina () One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism.

Jainism () The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.

Jairou () The ahu or Asiatic gazelle.

Jak () see Ils Jack.

Jakes () A privy.

Jakie () A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog.

Jako () An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot.

Jakwood () See Jackwood.

Jalap () The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa.

Jalapic () Of or pertaining to jalap.

Jalapin () A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative.

Jalons () Long poles, topped with wisps of straw, used as landmarks and signals.

Jalousie () A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.

Jalousied () Furnished with jalousies; as, jalousied porches.

Jam () A kind of frock for children.

Jam () See Jamb.

Jammed () of Jam

Jamming () of Jam

Jam () To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.

Jam () To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door.

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