Dictionary: JACK'SMITH – JAC'U-LA-TO-RY

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JACK'SMITH, n.

A smith who makes jacks for the chimney.

JAC'O-BIN, n. [So named from the place of meeting, which was the monastery of the monks called Jacobins.]

The Jacobins, in France, during the late revolution, were a society of violent revolutionists, who held secret meetings in which measures were concerted to direct the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence a Jacobin is the member of a club, or other person, who opposes government in a secret and unlawful manner or by violent means; a turbulent demagogue.

JAC'O-BINE, n.

  1. A monk of the order of Dominicans.
  2. A pigeon with a high tuft. – Ainsworth.

JAC-O-BIN'IC, or JAC-O-BIN'IC-AL, a.

Resembling the Jacobins of France; turbulent; discontented with government; holding democratic principles.

JAC-O-BIN'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In a manner resembling the Jacobins.

JAC'O-BIN-ISM, n.

Jacobinic principles; unreasonable or violent opposition to legitimate government; an attempt to overthrow or change government by secret cabals or irregular means; popular turbulence.

JAC'O-BIN-IZE, v.t.

To taint with Jacobinism. – Burke.

JAC'O-BIN-IZ-ED, pp.

Tainted with Jacobinism.

JAC'O-BIN-IZ-ING, ppr.

Infecting with Jacobinic principles.

JAC'O-BIN-LY, adv.

In the manner of Jacobins.

JAC'O-BITE, a.

Pertaining to the partisans of James II.

JAC'O-BITE, n. [from Jacobus, James.]

  1. A partisan or adherent of James II. king of England, after he abdicated the throne, and of his descendants; of course, an opposer of the revolution in 1688, in favor of William and Mary. Bolingbroke.
  2. One of a sect of Christians in Syria and Mesopotamia, who hold that Jesus Christ had but one nature. – Encyc. Cyc.

JAC'O-BIT-ISM, n.

The principles of the partisans of James II. – Mason.

JA'COB'S-LAD-DER, n.1

A plant of the genus Polemonium. – Fam. of Plants.

JA'COB'S-LAD-DER, n.2

In seamanship, a rope ladder with wooden steps or spokes.

JA'COB'S-STAFF, n.

  1. A pilgrim's staff.
  2. A staff concealing a dagger.
  3. A cross staff; a kind of astrolabe. – Johnson.

JA-CO'BUS, n. [Jacobus, James.]

A gold coin, value twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I. – L'Estrange.

JAC-O-NET', n.

A kind of coarse muslin.

JAC'QUE-RIE, n. [Fr.]

In French history, the name given to a revolt of the peasantry against the nobility in 1356.

JAC'TAN-CY, n. [L. jactantia.]

A boasting. [Not used.]

JAC-TI-TA'TION, n. [L. jactito, jacto. It ought rather to be jactatian, L. jactatio.]

  1. A tossing of the body; restlessness. – Harvey.
  2. A term in the canon law for a false pretension to marriage; vain boasting. – Johnson.

JAC'U-LATE, v.t. [L. jaculor.]

To dart.

JAC-U-LA'TION, n.

The action of darting, throwing or lanching, as missive weapons.

JAC'U-LA-TOR, n.

The shooting fish, a species of Chætodon.

JAC'U-LA-TO-RY, a.

Darting or throwing out suddenly, or suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences. [See Ejaculatory.]