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Webster 1913 Edition

Jet

Jet

,
Noun.
Same as 2d
Get
.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Jet

,
Noun.
[OF.
jet
,
jayet
, F.
jaïet
,
jais
, L.
gagates
, fr. Gr. [GREEK]; – so called from [GREEK] or [GREEK], a town and river in Lycia.]
[written also
jeat
,
jayet
.]
(Min.)
A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also
black amber
.
Jet ant
(Zool.)
,
a blackish European ant (
Formica fuliginosa
), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

Jet

,
Noun.
[F.
jet
, OF.
get
,
giet
, L.
jactus
a throwing, a throw, fr.
jacere
to throw. Cf.
Abject
,
Ejaculate
,
Gist
,
Jess
,
Jut
.]
1.
A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
2.
Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
[Obs.]
3.
The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
Knight.
Jet propeller
(Naut.)
,
a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.
–
Jet pump
,
a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.

Jet

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Jetted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Jetting
.]
[F.
jeter
, L.
jactare
, freq. fr.
jacere
to throw. See 3d
Jet
, and cf.
Jut
.]
1.
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
[Obs.]
he
jets
under his advanced plumes!
Shakespeare
To
jet
upon a prince’s right.
Shakespeare
2.
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
[Obs.]
Wiseman.
3.
To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

Jet

,
Verb.
T.
To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models
jetted
steam.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Jet

JET

,
Noun.
[L. gagates.] A solid, dry, black,inflammable fossil substance, harder than asphalt, susceptible of a good polish, and glossy in its fracture, which is conchoidal or undulating. It is found not in strata or continued masses, but in unconnected heaps. It is wrought into toys, buttons, mourning jewels, &c.
Jet is regarded as a variety of lignite, or coal originating in wood.

JET

,
Noun.
[L. jactus.]
1.
A spout, spouting or shooting of water; a jet d'eau.
2.
A yard. Tusser. Drift; scope. [Not in use or local.]

JET

,
Verb.
I.
[See the Noun.] To shoot forward; to shoot out; to project; to jut; to intrude.
1.
To strut; to throw or toss the body in haughtiness.
2.
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
[This orthography is rarely used. See Jut.]

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