Jackman
(Jack"man) n.; pl. Jackmen
1. One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n.
Christie . . . the laird's chief jackman.
Sir W. Scott. 2. A cream cheese. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
Jack-o'-lantern
(Jack"-o'-lan`tern) n. See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.
Jackpudding
(Jack"pud`ding) n. A merry- andrew; a buffoon. Milton.
Jacksaw
(Jack"saw`) n. (Zoöl.) The merganser.
Jackscrew
(Jack"screw`) n. A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust.
of 2d Jack, n., 5.
Jackslave
(Jack"slave`) n. A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak.
Jacksmith
(Jack"smith`) n. A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden.
Jacksnipe
(Jack"snipe`) n. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); — called also
judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe. (b) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); —
called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
Jackstay
(Jack"stay`) n. (Naut.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the
sails are fastened.
Jackstone
(Jack"stone`) n. (a) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones. (b) (pl.)
A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.
Jackstraw
(Jack"straw`) n.
1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton.
2. 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.
Jackwood
(Jack"wood`) n. Wood of the jack used in cabinetwork.
Jacob
(Ja"cob) n. [Cf. F. Jacob. See 2d Jack.] A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of
the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); — also called Israel.
And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
Gen.
xxxii. 9, 10.
Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.
Gen. xxxii. 28. Jacob's ladder.
(a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus Polemonium having corymbs of drooping
flowers, usually blue. Gray. (b) (Naut.) A rope ladder, with wooden steps, for going aloft. R. H. Dana,
Jr. (c) (Naut.) A succession of short cracks in a defective spar. — Jacob's membrane. See Retina.
— Jacob's staff. (a) A name given to many forms of staff or weapon, especially in the Middle Ages; a
pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] Spenser. (b) (Surveying) See under Staff.
Jacobæan lily
(Jac`o*bæ"an lil"y) [See Jacobean.] (Bot.) A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, or Sprekelia, formosissima)
from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also Jacobean.]