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Allfours :: Allfours () A game at cards, called High, Low, Jack, and the Game..

Caddow :: Caddow (n.) A jackdaw.

Jacksmith :: "Jacksmith (n.) A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.

Jump :: Jump (n.) A kind of loose jacket for men.

Jackanapes :: Jackanapes (n.) A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.

Jackknife :: "Jackknife (n.) A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife..

Sauce-alone :: Sauce-alone (n.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.

Natterjack :: Natterjack (n.) A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back..

Apple-jack :: Apple-jack (n.) Apple brandy.

Rhamnaceous :: Rhamnaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus)..

Grasshopper :: Grasshopper (n.) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper..

Sola :: Sola (n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) 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..

Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..

Grego :: Grego (n.) A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant..

Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass..

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

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