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Webster 1913 Edition


Jeat

Jeat

,
Noun.
(Min.)
See
Jet
.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Jeat

JEAT

,
Noun.
A fossil of a fine black color. [See Jet.]

Definition 2024


jeat

jeat

English

Noun

jeat (plural jeats)

  1. Obsolete form of jet.
    • a. 1631, John Donne, A Funeral Elegy, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (editors), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5, page 179,
      'T is loss to trust a tomb with such a guest, / Or to confine her in a marble chest, / Alas! what's marble, jeat, or porphyry,
    • 1735, John Barrow, Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digeſted, unnumbered page,
      There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.
    • 1758, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 28, page 10,
      To make a Grey Colour.
      Take iron ſcales, a little criſtal, and ſome ſmall quantity of jeat, grind theſe well together upon a painter's ſtone; the more jeat ye take, the ſadder the colour will be, and likewiſe the more criſtal you put to it the lighter.