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   Jack Lemmon
         n 1: United States film actor (1925-2001) [syn: {Lemmon}, {Jack
               Lemmon}, {John Uhler}]

English Dictionary: Juglandaceae by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jack London
n
  1. United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
    Synonym(s): London, Jack London, John Griffith Chaney
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jack salmon
n
  1. pike-like freshwater perches [syn: walleye, {walleyed pike}, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jack William Nicklaus
n
  1. United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940)
    Synonym(s): Nicklaus, Jack Nicklaus, Jack William Nicklaus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jack-a-lantern
n
  1. a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
    Synonym(s): jack-o-lantern fungus, jack-o-lantern, jack-a-lantern, Omphalotus illudens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jack-o'-lantern
n
  1. a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
    Synonym(s): friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp
  2. lantern carved from a pumpkin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jack-o-lantern
n
  1. a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
    Synonym(s): jack-o-lantern fungus, jack-o-lantern, jack-a-lantern, Omphalotus illudens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jack-o-lantern fungus
n
  1. a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
    Synonym(s): jack-o-lantern fungus, jack-o-lantern, jack-a-lantern, Omphalotus illudens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jacqueline Cochran
n
  1. United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980)
    Synonym(s): Cochran, Jacqueline Cochran
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jekyll and Hyde
n
  1. someone with two personalities - one good and one evil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
juggling
n
  1. the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression
    Synonym(s): juggle, juggling
  2. throwing and catching several objects simultaneously
    Synonym(s): juggle, juggling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Juglandaceae
n
  1. trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
    Synonym(s): Juglandaceae, family Juglandaceae, walnut family
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Juglandales
n
  1. coextensive with the family Juglandaceae [syn: Juglandales, order Juglandales]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Juglans
n
  1. type genus of the Juglandaceae [syn: Juglans, {genus Juglans}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Juglans californica
n
  1. medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts
    Synonym(s): California black walnut, Juglans californica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Juglans cinerea
n
  1. North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
    Synonym(s): butternut, butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Juglans nigra
n
  1. North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
    Synonym(s): black walnut, black walnut tree, black hickory, Juglans nigra
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Juglans regia
n
  1. Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated
    Synonym(s): English walnut, English walnut tree, Circassian walnut, Persian walnut, Juglans regia
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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Jack rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The
            California species ({Lepus Californicus}), and that of
            Texas and New Mexico ({L. callotis}), have the tail black
            above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become
            white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({L.
            campestris}) has the upper side of the tail white, and in
            winter its fur becomes nearly white.
  
      {Jack rafter} (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters
            used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United
            States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters
            resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the
            pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves
            in some styles of building.
  
      {Jack salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
  
      {Jack sauce}, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
  
      {Jack shaft} (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a
            factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or
            gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same
            means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
  
      {Jack sinker} (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by
            the jack to depress the loop of thread between two
            needles.
  
      {Jack snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Jack staff} (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon
            which the jack is hoisted.
  
      {Jack timber} (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or
            studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the
            others.
  
      {Jack towel}, a towel hung on a roller for common use.
  
      {Jack truss} (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where
            the roof has not its full section.
  
      {Jack tree}. (Bot.) See 1st {Jack}, n.
  
      {Jack yard} (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond
            the gaff.
  
      {Blue jack}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
  
      {Hydraulic jack}, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or
            forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic
            press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply
            of liquid, as oil.
  
      {Jack-at-a-pinch}.
            (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an
                  emergency.
            (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional
                  service for a fee.
  
      {Jack-at-all-trades}, one who can turn his hand to any kind
            of work.
  
      {Jack-by-the-hedge} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Erysimum}
            ({E. alliaria}, or {Alliaria officinalis}), which grows
            under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not
            unlike garlic. Called also, in England, {sauce-alone}.
            --Eng. Cyc.
  
      {Jack-in-a-box}.
            (a) (Bot.) A tropical tree ({Hernandia sonora}), which
                  bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated
                  calyx.
            (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which,
                  when the lid is raised, a figure springs.
            (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for
                  transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a
                  manner that their relative rotation may be variable;
                  applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road
                  locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an
                  equation box; a jack frame; -- called also
                  {compensating gearing}.
            (d) A large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the
                  crosspiece of a rude press.
  
      {Jack-in-office}, an insolent fellow in authority. --Wolcott.
  
      {Jack-in-the-bush} (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit
            ({Cordia Cylindrostachya}).
  
      {Jack-in-the-green}, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework
            of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
  
      {Jack-in-the-pulpit} (Bot.), the American plant {Aris[91]ma
            triphyllum}, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix
            is inclosed.
  
      {Jack-of-the-buttery} (Bot.), the stonecrop ({Sedum acre}).
           
  
      {Jack-of-the-clock}, a figure, usually of a man, on old
            clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
  
      {Jack-on-both-sides}, one who is or tries to be neutral.
  
      {Jack-out-of-office}, one who has been in office and is
            turned out. --Shak.
  
      {Jack the Giant Killer}, the hero of a well-known nursery
            story.
  
      {Jack-with-a-lantern}, {Jack-o'-lantern}.
            (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. [bd][Newspaper
                  speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns
                  to the future historian.[b8] --Lowell.
            (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in
                  illumination the features of a human face, etc.
  
      {Yellow Jack} (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine
            flag. See {Yellow flag}, under {Flag}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head
               streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes,
               and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in
               the way of their progress. The common salmon has been
               known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds;
               more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five
               pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and
               grilse. Among the true salmons are:
  
      {Black salmon}, or {Lake salmon}, the namaycush.
  
      {Dog salmon}, a salmon of Western North America
            ({Oncorhynchus keta}).
  
      {Humpbacked salmon}, a Pacific-coast salmon ({Oncorhynchus
            gorbuscha}).
  
      {King salmon}, the quinnat.
  
      {Landlocked salmon}, a variety of the common salmon (var.
            {Sebago}), long confined in certain lakes in consequence
            of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the
            sea. This last is called also {dwarf salmon}.
  
      Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and
               erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called
               {jack salmon}; the spotted, or southern, squeteague;
               the cabrilla, called {kelp salmon}; young pollock,
               called {sea salmon}; and the California yellowtail.
  
      2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the
            salmon.
  
      {Salmon berry} (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from
            Alaska to California, the fruit of the {Rubus Nutkanus}.
           
  
      {Salmon killer} (Zo[94]l.), a stickleback ({Gasterosteus
            cataphractus}) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
           
  
      {Salmon ladder}, {Salmon stair}. See {Fish ladder}, under
            {Fish}.
  
      {Salmon peel}, a young salmon.
  
      {Salmon pipe}, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb.
  
      {Salmon trout}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The European sea trout ({Salmo trutta}). It resembles
                  the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more
                  numerous scales.
            (b) The American namaycush.
            (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black
                  spotted trout ({Salmo purpuratus}), and to the steel
                  head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Jack rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The
            California species ({Lepus Californicus}), and that of
            Texas and New Mexico ({L. callotis}), have the tail black
            above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become
            white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({L.
            campestris}) has the upper side of the tail white, and in
            winter its fur becomes nearly white.
  
      {Jack rafter} (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters
            used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United
            States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters
            resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the
            pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves
            in some styles of building.
  
      {Jack salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
  
      {Jack sauce}, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
  
      {Jack shaft} (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a
            factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or
            gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same
            means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
  
      {Jack sinker} (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by
            the jack to depress the loop of thread between two
            needles.
  
      {Jack snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Jack staff} (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon
            which the jack is hoisted.
  
      {Jack timber} (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or
            studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the
            others.
  
      {Jack towel}, a towel hung on a roller for common use.
  
      {Jack truss} (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where
            the roof has not its full section.
  
      {Jack tree}. (Bot.) See 1st {Jack}, n.
  
      {Jack yard} (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond
            the gaff.
  
      {Blue jack}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
  
      {Hydraulic jack}, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or
            forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic
            press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply
            of liquid, as oil.
  
      {Jack-at-a-pinch}.
            (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an
                  emergency.
            (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional
                  service for a fee.
  
      {Jack-at-all-trades}, one who can turn his hand to any kind
            of work.
  
      {Jack-by-the-hedge} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Erysimum}
            ({E. alliaria}, or {Alliaria officinalis}), which grows
            under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not
            unlike garlic. Called also, in England, {sauce-alone}.
            --Eng. Cyc.
  
      {Jack-in-a-box}.
            (a) (Bot.) A tropical tree ({Hernandia sonora}), which
                  bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated
                  calyx.
            (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which,
                  when the lid is raised, a figure springs.
            (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for
                  transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a
                  manner that their relative rotation may be variable;
                  applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road
                  locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an
                  equation box; a jack frame; -- called also
                  {compensating gearing}.
            (d) A large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the
                  crosspiece of a rude press.
  
      {Jack-in-office}, an insolent fellow in authority. --Wolcott.
  
      {Jack-in-the-bush} (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit
            ({Cordia Cylindrostachya}).
  
      {Jack-in-the-green}, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework
            of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
  
      {Jack-in-the-pulpit} (Bot.), the American plant {Aris[91]ma
            triphyllum}, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix
            is inclosed.
  
      {Jack-of-the-buttery} (Bot.), the stonecrop ({Sedum acre}).
           
  
      {Jack-of-the-clock}, a figure, usually of a man, on old
            clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
  
      {Jack-on-both-sides}, one who is or tries to be neutral.
  
      {Jack-out-of-office}, one who has been in office and is
            turned out. --Shak.
  
      {Jack the Giant Killer}, the hero of a well-known nursery
            story.
  
      {Jack-with-a-lantern}, {Jack-o'-lantern}.
            (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. [bd][Newspaper
                  speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns
                  to the future historian.[b8] --Lowell.
            (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in
                  illumination the features of a human face, etc.
  
      {Yellow Jack} (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine
            flag. See {Yellow flag}, under {Flag}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head
               streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes,
               and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in
               the way of their progress. The common salmon has been
               known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds;
               more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five
               pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and
               grilse. Among the true salmons are:
  
      {Black salmon}, or {Lake salmon}, the namaycush.
  
      {Dog salmon}, a salmon of Western North America
            ({Oncorhynchus keta}).
  
      {Humpbacked salmon}, a Pacific-coast salmon ({Oncorhynchus
            gorbuscha}).
  
      {King salmon}, the quinnat.
  
      {Landlocked salmon}, a variety of the common salmon (var.
            {Sebago}), long confined in certain lakes in consequence
            of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the
            sea. This last is called also {dwarf salmon}.
  
      Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and
               erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called
               {jack salmon}; the spotted, or southern, squeteague;
               the cabrilla, called {kelp salmon}; young pollock,
               called {sea salmon}; and the California yellowtail.
  
      2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the
            salmon.
  
      {Salmon berry} (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from
            Alaska to California, the fruit of the {Rubus Nutkanus}.
           
  
      {Salmon killer} (Zo[94]l.), a stickleback ({Gasterosteus
            cataphractus}) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
           
  
      {Salmon ladder}, {Salmon stair}. See {Fish ladder}, under
            {Fish}.
  
      {Salmon peel}, a young salmon.
  
      {Salmon pipe}, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb.
  
      {Salmon trout}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The European sea trout ({Salmo trutta}). It resembles
                  the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more
                  numerous scales.
            (b) The American namaycush.
            (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black
                  spotted trout ({Salmo purpuratus}), and to the steel
                  head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jack-a-lent \Jack"-a-lent\, n.
      A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple
      fellow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Jack rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The
            California species ({Lepus Californicus}), and that of
            Texas and New Mexico ({L. callotis}), have the tail black
            above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become
            white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({L.
            campestris}) has the upper side of the tail white, and in
            winter its fur becomes nearly white.
  
      {Jack rafter} (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters
            used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United
            States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters
            resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the
            pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves
            in some styles of building.
  
      {Jack salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
  
      {Jack sauce}, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
  
      {Jack shaft} (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a
            factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or
            gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same
            means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
  
      {Jack sinker} (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by
            the jack to depress the loop of thread between two
            needles.
  
      {Jack snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Jack staff} (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon
            which the jack is hoisted.
  
      {Jack timber} (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or
            studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the
            others.
  
      {Jack towel}, a towel hung on a roller for common use.
  
      {Jack truss} (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where
            the roof has not its full section.
  
      {Jack tree}. (Bot.) See 1st {Jack}, n.
  
      {Jack yard} (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond
            the gaff.
  
      {Blue jack}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
  
      {Hydraulic jack}, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or
            forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic
            press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply
            of liquid, as oil.
  
      {Jack-at-a-pinch}.
            (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an
                  emergency.
            (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional
                  service for a fee.
  
      {Jack-at-all-trades}, one who can turn his hand to any kind
            of work.
  
      {Jack-by-the-hedge} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Erysimum}
            ({E. alliaria}, or {Alliaria officinalis}), which grows
            under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not
            unlike garlic. Called also, in England, {sauce-alone}.
            --Eng. Cyc.
  
      {Jack-in-a-box}.
            (a) (Bot.) A tropical tree ({Hernandia sonora}), which
                  bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated
                  calyx.
            (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which,
                  when the lid is raised, a figure springs.
            (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for
                  transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a
                  manner that their relative rotation may be variable;
                  applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road
                  locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an
                  equation box; a jack frame; -- called also
                  {compensating gearing}.
            (d) A large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the
                  crosspiece of a rude press.
  
      {Jack-in-office}, an insolent fellow in authority. --Wolcott.
  
      {Jack-in-the-bush} (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit
            ({Cordia Cylindrostachya}).
  
      {Jack-in-the-green}, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework
            of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
  
      {Jack-in-the-pulpit} (Bot.), the American plant {Aris[91]ma
            triphyllum}, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix
            is inclosed.
  
      {Jack-of-the-buttery} (Bot.), the stonecrop ({Sedum acre}).
           
  
      {Jack-of-the-clock}, a figure, usually of a man, on old
            clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
  
      {Jack-on-both-sides}, one who is or tries to be neutral.
  
      {Jack-out-of-office}, one who has been in office and is
            turned out. --Shak.
  
      {Jack the Giant Killer}, the hero of a well-known nursery
            story.
  
      {Jack-with-a-lantern}, {Jack-o'-lantern}.
            (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. [bd][Newspaper
                  speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns
                  to the future historian.[b8] --Lowell.
            (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in
                  illumination the features of a human face, etc.
  
      {Yellow Jack} (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine
            flag. See {Yellow flag}, under {Flag}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jack-o'-lantern \Jack"-o'-lan`tern\, n.
      See {Jack-with-a-lantern}, under 2d {Jack}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Ignis fatuus \[d8]Ig"nis fat"u*us\; pl. {Ignes fatui}. [L.
      ignis fire + fatuus foolish. So called in allusion to its
      tendency to mislead travelers.]
      1. A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over
            marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the
            decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by
            some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also
            {Will-with-the-wisp}, or {Will-o'-the-wisp}, and
            {Jack-with-a-lantern}, or {Jack-o'-lantern}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Joggle \Jog"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Joggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Joggling}.] [Freq. of jog.]
      1. To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to
            cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
  
      2. (Arch.) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent
            sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
  
                     The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss
                     posts.                                                --Gwilt.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juggle \Jug"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Juggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Juggling}.] [OE. juglen; cf. OF. jogler, jugler, F. jongler.
      See {Juggler}.]
      1. To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and
            sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
  
      2. To practice artifice or imposture.
  
                     Be these juggling fiends no more believed. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juggling \Jug"gling\, a.
      Cheating; tricky. -- {Jug"gling*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juggling \Jug"gling\, n.
      Jugglery; underhand practice.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juggling \Jug"gling\, a.
      Cheating; tricky. -- {Jug"gling*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglandin \Jug"lan*din\, n. [L. juglans, -andis, a walnut: cf.
      F. juglandine.] (Chem.)
      An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green
      shucks of the walnut ({Juglans regia}). It is used
      medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglandine \Jug"lan*dine\, n.
      An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut ({Juglans
      regia}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butternut \But"ter*nut`\, n.
      1. (Bot.) An American tree ({Juglans cinerea}) of the Walnut
            family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil
            contained in the latter. Sometimes called {oil nut} and
            {white walnut}.
  
      2. (Bot.) The nut of the {Caryocar butyrosum} and {C.
            nuciferum}, of S. America; -- called also {Souari nut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England,
               the name walnut is given to several species of hickory
               ({Carya}), and their fruit.
  
      {Ash-leaved walnut}, a tree ({Juglans fraxinifolia}), native
            in Transcaucasia.
  
      {Black walnut}, a North American tree ({J. nigra}) valuable
            for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in
            cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled,
            and nearly globular.
  
      {English}, [or] {European}, {walnut}, a tree ({J. regia}),
            native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for
            its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also
            called Madeira nuts.
  
      {Walnut brown}, a deep warm brown color, like that of the
            heartwood of the black walnut.
  
      {Walnut oil}, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in
            cooking, making soap, etc.
  
      {White walnut}, a North American tree ({J. cinerea}), bearing
            long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called
            butternuts. See {Butternut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglandin \Jug"lan*din\, n. [L. juglans, -andis, a walnut: cf.
      F. juglandine.] (Chem.)
      An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green
      shucks of the walnut ({Juglans regia}). It is used
      medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglandine \Jug"lan*dine\, n.
      An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut ({Juglans
      regia}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglone \Ju"glone\, n. [L. juglans the walnut + -one.] (Chem.)
      A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted
      from green shucks of the walnut ({Juglans regia}); -- called
      also {nucin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Madeira \Ma*dei"ra\, n. [Pg., the Island Madeira, properly,
      wood, fr. L. materia stuff, wood. The island was so called
      because well wooded. See {Matter}.]
      A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.
  
               A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg. --Shak.
  
      {Madeira nut} (Bot.), the European walnut; the nut of the
            {Juglans regia}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglone \Ju"glone\, n. [L. juglans the walnut + -one.] (Chem.)
      A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted
      from green shucks of the walnut ({Juglans regia}); -- called
      also {nucin}.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   juggling eggs vi.   Keeping a lot of {state} in your head while
   modifying a program.   "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs",
   means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being
   scrambled.   In the classic 1975 first-contact SF novel "The Mote in
   God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a
   very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable
   gravity."   See also {hack mode} and {on the gripping hand}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   juggling eggs
  
      Keeping a lot of {state} in your head while modifying a
      program.   "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that
      an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being
      scrambled.   In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in
      God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien
      describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless
      eggs in variable gravity."   See also {hack mode}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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