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

Whimbrel :: Whimbrel (n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix..

Jackmen :: Jackmen (pl. ) of Jackma.

Jack-o''-lantern :: "Jack-o'-lantern (n.) See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack..

Jackal :: "Jackal (n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated..

Cestraciont :: Cestraciont (n.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples..

Flapjack :: Flapjack (n.) A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.

Supplely :: Supple-jack (n.) A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem..

Mistress :: Mistress (n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.

Queller :: Queller (n.) A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller..

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)..

Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones..

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..

Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) The ensign of a pirate.

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

Jakwood :: Jakwood (n.) See Jackwood.

Jersey :: "Jersey (n.) A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet)..

Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.

Wasp :: Wasp (n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets..

Roundabout :: Roundabout (n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc..

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