Jam () To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

Jam () A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.

Jam () An injury caused by jamming.

Jam () A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.

Jamacina () Jamaicine.

Jamadar () Same as Jemidar.

Jamaica () One of the West India is islands.

Jamaican () Of or pertaining to Jamaica.

Jamaican () A native or inhabitant of Jamaica.

Jamaicine () An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina.

Jamb () The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.

Jamb () Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.

Jamb () See Jam, v. t.

Jambee () A fashionable cane.

Jambes () Alt. of Jambeux

Jambeux () In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees.

Jambolana () A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit.

Jamdani () A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers.

Jamesonite () A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.

James's powder () Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.

Jamestown weed () The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

Jan () One of intermediate order between angels and men.

Jane () A coin of Genoa; any small coin.

Jane () A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean.

Jane-of-apes () A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes.

Jangled () of Jangle

Jangling () of Jangle

Jangle () To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.

Jangle () To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.

Jangle () To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.

Jangle () To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.

Jangle () Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.

Jangle () Discordant sound; wrangling.

Jangler () An idle talker; a babbler; a prater.

Jangler () A wrangling, noisy fellow.

Jangleress () A female prater or babbler.

Janglery () Jangling.

Jangling () Producing discordant sounds.

Jangling () Idle babbling; vain disputation.

Jangling () Wrangling; altercation.

Janissary () See Janizary.

Janitor () A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

Janitress () Alt. of Janitrix

Janitrix () A female janitor.

Janizar () A janizary.

Janizarian () Of or pertaining to the janizaries, or their government.

Janizaries () of Janizary

Janizary () A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826.

Janker () A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs.

Jansenism () The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

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