*jut*

n. Same as Ajutage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adjutant. ] 1. The office of an adjutant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjutans, p. pr. of adjutare to help. See Aid. ] 1. A helper; an assistant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Hist.) A corruption of Agitator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. ajouter; confused with L. adjutare. ] To add. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. adjuvare. See Aid. ] A helper or assistant. [ Archaic ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adjutorius. ] Serving to help or assist; helping. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Adjutor. ] A female helper or assistant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ajutage, for ajoutage, fr. ajouter to add, LL. adjuxtare, fr. L. ad + juxta near to, nigh. Cf. Adjutage, Adjustage, Adjust. ] A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An assistant. R. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mutually assisting. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Co-, and Aid. ] 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ . n. [ Jap. jūjutsu; jū soft (prob. because no weapons are used) + jutsu art. ] The Japanese art of self-defense without weapons, now widely used as a system of physical training. It depends for its efficiency largely upon the principle of making clever use of an opponent's strength, weight, and movements to disable or injure him, and by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance, dislocate or break a joint, etc. It opposes knowledge and skill to brute strength, and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Jutted p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting. ] [ A corruption of jet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. “In jutting rock and curved shore.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To butt. [ Obs. ] “The jutting steer.” Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which projects or juts; a projection. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shove; a push. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. jūt, Skr. jū&tsdot_;a matted hair; cf. ja&tsdot_;a matted hair, fibrous roots. ] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and Corchorus capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ See Jetty, Jut, Jet. ] A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]