English Dictionary: Jacopo Robusti | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Jack crosstree}. (Naut.) See 10, b, above. {Jack curlew} (Zo[94]l.), the whimbrel. {Jack frame}. (Cotton Spinning) See 4 (g), above. {Jack Frost}, frost personified as a mischievous person. {Jack hare}, a male hare. --Cowper. {Jack lamp}, a lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def. 4 (n.), above. {Jack plane}, a joiner's plane used for coarse work. {Jack post}, one of the posts which support the crank shaft of a deep-well-boring apparatus. {Jack pot} (Poker Playing), the name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the [bd]pot,[b8] which is the sum total of all the bets. | |
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{Jack crosstree}. (Naut.) See 10, b, above. {Jack curlew} (Zo[94]l.), the whimbrel. {Jack frame}. (Cotton Spinning) See 4 (g), above. {Jack Frost}, frost personified as a mischievous person. {Jack hare}, a male hare. --Cowper. {Jack lamp}, a lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def. 4 (n.), above. {Jack plane}, a joiner's plane used for coarse work. {Jack post}, one of the posts which support the crank shaft of a deep-well-boring apparatus. {Jack pot} (Poker Playing), the name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the [bd]pot,[b8] which is the sum total of all the bets. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frost \Frost\, n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. fre[a2]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. [fb]18. See {Freeze}, v. i.] 1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids. 2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. --Shak. 3. Frozen dew; -- called also {hoarfrost} or {white frost}. He scattereth the frost like ashes. --Ps. cxlvii. 16. 4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.] It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath. --Sir W. Scott. {Black frost}, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. {Frost bearer} (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophous. {Frost grape} (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries. {Frost lamp}, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses. --Knight. {Frost nail}, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping. {Frost smoke}, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. --Kane. {Frost valve}, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. {Jack Frost}, a popular personification of frost. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F. jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. [?]; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb, yasb, yasf, Heb. y[be]shpheh. Cf. {Diaper}.] (Min.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called {striped [or] banded jasper}. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. {Jasper opal}, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper. {Jasper ware}, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of receiving color. | |
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Wedgwood ware \Wedg"wood` ware`\ [From the name of the inventor, Josiah Wedgwood, of England.] A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called {jasper}, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F. jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. [?]; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb, yasb, yasf, Heb. y[be]shpheh. Cf. {Diaper}.] (Min.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called {striped [or] banded jasper}. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. {Jasper opal}, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper. {Jasper ware}, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of receiving color. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wedgwood ware \Wedg"wood` ware`\ [From the name of the inventor, Josiah Wedgwood, of England.] A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called {jasper}, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels. | |
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Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F. jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. [?]; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb, yasb, yasf, Heb. y[be]shpheh. Cf. {Diaper}.] (Min.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called {striped [or] banded jasper}. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. {Jasper opal}, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper. {Jasper ware}, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of receiving color. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jasper \Jas"per\, n. [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F. jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. [?]; cf. Per. yashp, yashf, Ar. yashb, yasb, yasf, Heb. y[be]shpheh. Cf. {Diaper}.] (Min.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called {striped [or] banded jasper}. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. {Jasper opal}, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper. {Jasper ware}, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of receiving color. | |
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Jasperated \Jas"per*a`ted\, a. mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate. | |
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Jasperize \Jas"per*ize\, v. t. [Usually p. p. {Jasperized} ([?]).] To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. --Pop. Sci. Monthly. | |
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Jaspery \Jas"per*y\, a. Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper. | |
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Jew \Jew\, n. [OF. Juis, pl., F. Juif, L. Judaeus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] the country of the Jews, Judea, fr. Heb. Y[?]h[?]d[be]h Judah, son of Jacob. Cf. {Judaic}.] Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite. {Jew's frankincense}, gum styrax, or benzoin. {Jew's mallow} (Bot.), an annual herb ({Corchorus olitorius}) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber. {Jew's pitch}, asphaltum; bitumen. {The Wandering Jew}, an imaginary personage, who, for his cruelty to the Savior during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Jacksboro, TN (town, FIPS 37600) Location: 36.33177 N, 84.19104 W Population (1990): 1568 (650 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37757 Jacksboro, TX (city, FIPS 37168) Location: 33.22308 N, 98.15406 W Population (1990): 3350 (1659 housing units) Area: 13.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76458 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Jasper, AL (city, FIPS 38416) Location: 33.85204 N, 87.27007 W Population (1990): 13553 (5815 housing units) Area: 59.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35501 Jasper, AR (city, FIPS 34900) Location: 36.00605 N, 93.18829 W Population (1990): 332 (172 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72641 Jasper, FL (city, FIPS 35375) Location: 30.51714 N, 82.95620 W Population (1990): 2099 (873 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32052 Jasper, GA (city, FIPS 41932) Location: 34.46978 N, 84.42829 W Population (1990): 1772 (796 housing units) Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30143 Jasper, IN (city, FIPS 37782) Location: 38.39315 N, 86.93523 W Population (1990): 10030 (4162 housing units) Area: 21.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Jasper, MI Zip code(s): 49248 Jasper, MN (city, FIPS 31760) Location: 43.84964 N, 96.39951 W Population (1990): 599 (286 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56144 Jasper, MO (city, FIPS 36512) Location: 37.33460 N, 94.30258 W Population (1990): 994 (450 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64755 Jasper, NY Zip code(s): 14855 Jasper, TN (town, FIPS 37820) Location: 35.05985 N, 85.62868 W Population (1990): 2780 (1199 housing units) Area: 19.6 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Jasper, TX (city, FIPS 37420) Location: 30.92045 N, 93.99506 W Population (1990): 6959 (2909 housing units) Area: 19.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Jasper County, GA (county, FIPS 159) Location: 33.31630 N, 83.68734 W Population (1990): 8453 (3637 housing units) Area: 959.5 sq km (land), 8.1 sq km (water) Jasper County, IA (county, FIPS 99) Location: 41.68600 N, 93.05262 W Population (1990): 34795 (14338 housing units) Area: 1890.8 sq km (land), 7.6 sq km (water) Jasper County, IL (county, FIPS 79) Location: 39.00559 N, 88.14932 W Population (1990): 10609 (4297 housing units) Area: 1280.6 sq km (land), 9.4 sq km (water) Jasper County, IN (county, FIPS 73) Location: 41.02525 N, 87.12048 W Population (1990): 24960 (8984 housing units) Area: 1450.1 sq km (land), 3.5 sq km (water) Jasper County, MO (county, FIPS 97) Location: 37.20195 N, 94.33556 W Population (1990): 90465 (39554 housing units) Area: 1657.1 sq km (land), 4.0 sq km (water) Jasper County, MS (county, FIPS 61) Location: 32.01934 N, 89.12036 W Population (1990): 17114 (6700 housing units) Area: 1751.0 sq km (land), 3.7 sq km (water) Jasper County, SC (county, FIPS 53) Location: 32.43518 N, 81.02402 W Population (1990): 15487 (6070 housing units) Area: 1694.7 sq km (land), 81.6 sq km (water) Jasper County, TX (county, FIPS 241) Location: 30.74079 N, 94.02677 W Population (1990): 31102 (13824 housing units) Area: 2428.0 sq km (land), 83.4 sq km (water) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Jasper (Heb. yashpheh, "glittering"), a gem of various colours, one of the twelve inserted in the high priest's breast-plate (Ex. 28:20). It is named in the building of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:18, 19). It was "most precious," "clear as crystal" (21:11). It was emblematic of the glory of God (4:3). |