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   Jack Frost
         n 1: a personification of frost or winter weather

English Dictionary: jackfruit by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jackfruit
n
  1. East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds
    Synonym(s): jackfruit, jackfruit tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus
  2. immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
    Synonym(s): jackfruit, jak, jack
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jackfruit tree
n
  1. East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds
    Synonym(s): jackfruit, jackfruit tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jacob Harmensen
n
  1. Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)
    Synonym(s): Arminius, Jacobus Arminius, Jacob Harmensen, Jakob Hermandszoon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jacopo Robusti
n
  1. Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594) [syn: Tintoretto, Jacopo Robusti]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jakob Bernoulli
n
  1. Swiss mathematician (1654-1705) [syn: Bernoulli, {Jakob Bernoulli}, Jacques Bernoulli, James Bernoulli]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jakob Hermandszoon
n
  1. Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)
    Synonym(s): Arminius, Jacobus Arminius, Jacob Harmensen, Jakob Hermandszoon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jasper
n
  1. an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jasper Johns
n
  1. United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)
    Synonym(s): Johns, Jasper Johns
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jaspers
n
  1. German psychiatrist (1883-1969) [syn: Jaspers, {Karl Jaspers}, Karl Theodor Jaspers]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jespersen
n
  1. Danish linguist (1860-1943) [syn: Jespersen, {Otto Jespersen}, Jens Otto Harry Jespersen]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
n
  1. United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
    Synonym(s): McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Raymond McCarthy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
n
  1. English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)
    Synonym(s): Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Kipling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Joseph Warren Stilwell
n
  1. United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946)
    Synonym(s): Stilwell, Joseph Warren Stilwell, Vinegar Joe Stilwell, Uncle Joe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Josip Broz
n
  1. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980)
    Synonym(s): Tito, Marshal Tito, Josip Broz
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 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.

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.

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.

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]:
   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]:
   Jasperated \Jas"per*a`ted\, a.
      mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as,
      jasperated agate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jaspery \Jas"per*y\, a.
      Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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).
     
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