| jacks | (n) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball, Syn. knucklebones, jackstones |
| jackscrew | (n) screw-operated jack, Syn. screw jack |
| jacksmelt | (n) a relatively large silversides of the Pacific coast of North America (known to reach 18 inches in length), Syn. Atherinopsis californiensis |
| jacksnipe | (n) a small short-billed Old World snipe, Syn. Limnocryptes minima, half snipe |
| jackson | (n) English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936), Syn. Glenda Jackson |
| jackson | (n) United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958), Syn. Michael Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson |
| jackson | (n) United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972), Syn. Mahalia Jackson |
| jackson | (n) United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941), Syn. Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson |
| jackson | (n) United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885), Syn. Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson |
| jackson | (n) general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863), Syn. Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Thomas J. Jackson, Thomas Jackson |
| Jacksaw | n. (Zool.) The merganser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jackscrew | n. A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jackslave | n. A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jacksmith | n. A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jacksnipe | n. (Zool.) (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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jackstay | n. (Naut.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jackstone | n. 1. One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (pl.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck. Also called jacks. See jack{ 12 }, n. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jackstraw | n. 1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. A modern variation, called pick-up-sticks (U.S. 1940+), is played with thin wooden sticks of different colors, each color having different values for scoring; the sticks are dislodged from the pile with the hand or with one of the sticks. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ] |
| jackstraws | n. The game played with jackstraws{ 2 }, which resembles pick-up-sticks. [ PJC ] |
