Jack of all trades
         n 1: a person able to do a variety of different jobs acceptably
               well
         2: a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks [syn:
            {handyman}, {jack of all trades}, {odd-job man}]

English Dictionary: Josh Billings	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jack plane n a carpenter's plane for rough finishing
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Jakob Liebmann Beer n German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864) Synonym(s): Meyerbeer, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jakob Liebmann Beer
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy n German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847) Synonym(s): Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm n the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863) Synonym(s): Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
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Jaws of Life n hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside
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Jezebel n wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC) a shameless impudent scheming woman
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Josef Albers n United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976) Synonym(s): Albers, Josef Albers
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Joseph Alois Schumpeter n United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950) Synonym(s): Schumpeter, Joseph Schumpeter, Joseph Alois Schumpeter
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Joseph Heller n United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999) Synonym(s): Heller, Joseph Heller
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Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc n English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953) Synonym(s): Belloc, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc
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Joseph Lincoln Steffens n United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936) Synonym(s): Steffens, Lincoln Steffens, Joseph Lincoln Steffens
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Joseph Lister n English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912) Synonym(s): Lister, Joseph Lister, Baron Lister
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Joseph Louis Barrow n United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981) Synonym(s): Louis, Joe Louis, Joseph Louis Barrow
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac n French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850) Synonym(s): Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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Joseph Oliver n United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938) Synonym(s): Oliver, Joseph Oliver, King Oliver
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Josh Billings n United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885) Synonym(s): Shaw, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings
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jugful n the quantity contained in a jug Synonym(s): jug, jugful
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jus civile n the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law Synonym(s): Roman law, Justinian code, civil law, jus civile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jack \Jack\, n. [F. Jacques James, L. Jacobus, Gr. [?], Heb. Ya       'aq[omac]b Jacob; prop., seizing by the heel; hence, a       supplanter. Cf. {Jacobite}, {Jockey}.]       1. A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.                         You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. --Shak.          2. An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a             clown; also, a servant; a rustic. [bd]Jack fool.[b8]             --Chaucer.                         Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a                      gentle person made a Jack.                  --Shak.          3. A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also             {Jack tar}, and {Jack afloat}.          4. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a             subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient             service, and often supplying the place of a boy or             attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:             (a) A device to pull off boots.             (b) A sawhorse or sawbuck.             (c) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke                   jack, or kitchen jack.             (b) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by                   blasting.             (e) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers                   which push the loops down on the needles.             (f) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the                   threads; a heck box.             (g) (Spinning) A machine for twisting the sliver as it                   leaves the carding machine.             (h) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.             (i) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.             (k) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for                   multiplying speed.             (l) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent                   pipe, to prevent a back draught.             (m) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece                   communicating the action of the key to the quill; --                   called also {hopper}.             (n) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the                   torch used to attract game at night; also, the light                   itself. --C. Hallock.          5. A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting             great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through             a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and             pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of             mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or             support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc.             The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of             jack.          6. The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.             --Shak.                         Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the                      jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon                      it.                                                   --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          7. The male of certain animals, as of the ass.          8. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A young pike; a pickerel.             (b) The jurel.             (c) A large, California rock fish ({Sebastodes                   paucispinus}); -- called also {boccaccio}, and                   {m[82]rou}.             (d) The wall-eyed pike.          9. A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding             a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.          10. (Naut.)             (a) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly,                   usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap;                   -- called also {union jack}. The American jack is a                   small blue flag, with a star for each State.             (b) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead,                   to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal                   shrouds; -- called also {jack crosstree}. --R. H.                   Dana, Jr.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note: Jack is used adjectively in various senses. It                sometimes designates something cut short or diminished                in size; as, a jack timber; a jack rafter; a jack arch,                etc.          {Jack arch}, an arch of the thickness of one brick.          {Jack back} (Brewing & Malt Vinegar Manuf.), a cistern which             receives the wort. See under 1st {Back}.          {Jack block} (Naut.), a block fixed in the topgallant or             royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts             and spars.          {Jack boots}, boots reaching above the knee; -- worn in the             17 century by soldiers; afterwards by fishermen, etc.
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]:
Jag \Jag\, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. gag aperture,       cleft, chink; akin to Ir. & Gael. gag.] [Written also       {jagg}.]       1. A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance;             a denticulation.                         Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag.                                                                               --Shelley.                         Garments thus beset with long jags.   --Holland.          2. A part broken off; a fragment. --Bp. Hacket.          3. (Bot.) A cleft or division.          {Jag bolt}, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which             resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jagua palm \Ja"gua palm`\ [Sp. jagua the fruit of the jagua       palm.] (Bot.)       A great Brazilian palm ({Maximiliana regia}), having immense       spathes which are used for baskets and tubs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jaspilite \Jas"pi*lite\, n. [Jasper + -lite.] (Min.)       A compact siliceous rock resembling jasper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jezebel \Jez"e*bel\, n. [From Jezebel, Heb. Izebel, the wife of       Ahab king of Israel.]       A bold, vicious woman; a termagant. --Spectator.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jig \Jig\, n. [OF. gigue a stringed instrument, a kind of dance,       F. gigue dance, tune, gig; of German origin; cf. MHG. g[c6]ge       fiddle, G. geige. Cf. {Gig} a fiddle, {Gig} a whirligig.]       1. (Mus.) A light, brisk musical movement.                         Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jib.      -- Shak.          3. A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce             in verse; a ballad. [Obs.]                         A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme Praised                      and applauded.                                    --Beau. & Fl.          4. A piece of sport; a trick; a prank. [Obs.]                         Is't not a fine jig, A precious cunning, in the late                      Protector?                                          -- Beau & Fl.          5. A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook             attached.          6. (Mach.)             (a) A small machine or handy tool; esp.: (Metal Working) A                   contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work,                   and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a                   drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as                   in filing.             (b) (Mining) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.          {Drill jig}, a jig for guiding a drill. See {Jig}, 6             (a) .          {Jig drilling}, {Jig filing} (Metal Working), a process of             drilling or filing in which the action of the tool is             directed or limited by a jig.          {Jig saw}, a sawing machine with a narrow, vertically             reciprocating saw, used to cut curved and irregular lines,             or ornamental patterns in openwork, a scroll saw; --             called also {gig saw}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Jeiseyville, IL (village, FIPS 38349)       Location: 39.57730 N, 89.40743 W       Population (1990): 126 (55 housing units)       Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Jessieville, AR       Zip code(s): 71949
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Jezebel       chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and       the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was       the "first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by       marriage with a heathen princess; and the alliance was in this       case of a peculiarly disastrous kind. Jezebel has stamped her       name on history as the representative of all that is designing,       crafty, malicious, revengeful, and cruel. She is the first great       instigator of persecution against the saints of God. Guided by       no principle, restrained by no fear of either God or man,       passionate in her attachment to her heathen worship, she spared       no pains to maintain idolatry around her in all its splendour.       Four hundred and fifty prophets ministered under her care to       Baal, besides four hundred prophets of the groves [R.V.,       'prophets of the Asherah'], which ate at her table (1 Kings       18:19). The idolatry, too, was of the most debased and sensual       kind." Her conduct was in many respects very disastrous to the       kingdom both of Israel and Judah (21:1-29). At length she came       to an untimely end. As Jehu rode into the gates of Jezreel, she       looked out at the window of the palace, and said, "Had Zimri       peace, who slew his master?" He looked up and called to her       chamberlains, who instantly threw her from the window, so that       she was dashed in pieces on the street, and his horses trod her       under their feet. She was immediately consumed by the dogs of       the street (2 Kings 9:7-37), according to the word of Elijah the       Tishbite (1 Kings 21:19).                Her name afterwards came to be used as the synonym for a       wicked woman (Rev. 2: 20).                It may be noted that she is said to have been the grand-aunt       of Dido, the founder of Carthage.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Jezebel, chaste