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Jack :: "Jack (n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow..

Saury :: Saury (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring..

Tomcod :: Tomcod (n.) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c)..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught..

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence..

Jack :: Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.

Smokejack :: Smokejack (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.

Ignis Fatuus :: Ignis fatuus () 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..

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts..

Sweater :: Sweater (n.) A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.

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..

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..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper..

Black-jack :: Black-jack (n.) Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc..

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc..

Jacket :: "Jacket (v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket..

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