Dictionary: JAL'A-PIN – JANT

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JAL'A-PIN, n.

A vegetable proximate principle of the officinal Jalap.

JAM, n.

  1. A conserve of fruits boiled with sugar and water.
  2. A kind of frock for children.

JAM, or JAMB, n.

Among the lead miners of Mendip, a thick bed of stone which hinders them when pursuing the veins of ore. – Cyc.

JAM, v.t. [Russ. jem, a press; jmu, to press.]

  1. To press; to crowd; to wedge in.
  2. In England, to tread hard or make firm by treading, as land by cattle. – Grose.

JA-MA'CI-NA, n. [From Jamaica.]

An alkaloid obtained from the Andira inermis, or cabbage-bark tree of the West Indies.

JAMB, n. [jam; Fr. jambe, a leg; jambes de force, a corbel or pier; It. gamba, a leg; gambo, a stem or stalk.]

  1. In architecture, a supporter; the side-piece or post of a door; the side-piece of a fire-place.
  2. A pillar to support the superior parts of a building. – Elmes.

JAM-BEE', n.

A name formerly given to a fashionable cane. – Tatler.

JAM'BEUX, n. [supra.]

Armor for the legs. [Obs.] – Dryden.

JA'ME-SON-ITE, n.

A mineral consisting of sulphur, lead and antimony; named from Prof. Jameson.

JAM'MED, pp.

Pressed; crowded.

JAM'MING, ppr.

Pressing; crowding; wedging in.

JANE, n.

  1. A coin of Genoa. – Spenser.
  2. A kind of fustian.

JAN'GLE, v.i. [G. zanken.]

To quarrel in words; to altercate; to bicker; to wrangle. – Shak.

JAN'GLE, v.t.

To cause to sound untunably or discordantly. E'er monkish rhymes / Had jangl'd their fantastic chimes. – Prior.

JAN'GLER, n.

A wrangling, noisy fellow.

JAN'GLING, n.

A noisy dispute; a wrangling.

JAN'GLING, ppr.

Wrangling; quarreling; sounding discordantly.

JAN'I-TOR, n. [L.]

A door-keeper; a porter. – Warton.

JAN-I-ZA'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to the Janizaries, or their government. – Burke.

JAN'I-ZA-RY, n. [Turkish, yeniskeri; yeni and askari, new troops. Eton.]

A soldier of the Turkish foot guards. The Janizaries were a body of infantry, and reputed the Grand Seignor's guards. They became turbulent, and rising in arms against the Sultan, were attacked, defeated, and destroyed in Constantinople, in June, 1826.

JAN'NOCK, n.

Oat-bread. [Local.]

JAN'SEN-ISM, n.

The doctrine of Jansen, in regard to free will and grace.

JAN'SEN-IST, n.

A follower of Jansen, bishop of Ypres, in Flanders.

JANT, n.

An excursion; a ramble; a short journey. – Milton.

JANT, v.i. [In Fr. jante is the felly of a wheel, and the original root signified probably to extend or to run, to ramble.]

To ramble here and there; to make an excursion. – Shak.