Part 6119

<blockquote>And <b>Jacob</b> said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. <i>Gen. xxxii. 9, 10.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thy name shall be called no more <b>Jacob</b>, but Israel. <i>Gen. xxxii. 28.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Jacob's ladder</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <cd>A perennial herb of the genus <spn>Polemonium</spn> (<spn>P. c\'d2ruleum), having corymbs of drooping flowers, usually blue. Gray</spn>.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>A rope ladder, with wooden steps, for going aloft</cd>. <i>R. H. Dana, Jr</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>A succession of short cracks in a defective spar.</cd> -- <col>Jacob's membrane</col>. <cd>See <er>Retina</er>.</cd> -- <col>Jacob's staff</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A name given to many forms of staff or weapon, especially in the Middle Ages; a pilgrim's staff</cd>. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Spenser</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Surveying)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Staff</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Jacob\'91an lily</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw>Jac`o*b\'91"an lil"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[See <er>Jacobean</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A bulbous plant (<spn>Amaryllis, &or; Sprekelia, formosissima</spn>) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>Jacobean</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Jacobean; 277, Jacobian</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw><hw>Ja*co"be*an</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <hw>Ja*co"bi*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From L. <ets>Jacobus</ets> James. See 2d <er>Jack</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England.</def> "A <i>Jacobean</i> table."

<i>C. L. Eastlake.</i>

<h1>Jacobin</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw>Jac"o*bin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See 2d <er>Jack</er>, <er>Jacobite</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.</def>

<h1>Jacobin</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw>Jac"o*bin</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Jacobinic</er>.</def>

<h1>Jacobine</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw>Jac"o*bine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A Jacobin.</def>

<h1>Jacobinic, Jacobinical</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw><hw>Jac`o*bin"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Jac`o*bin"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism.</def> <i>Burke</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Jac`o*bin"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Jacobinism</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw>Jac"o*bin*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>Jacobinisme</ets>.]</ety> <def>The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.</def>

<blockquote>Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of <b>Jacobinism</b>. <i>J. C. Shairp.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jacobinize</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw>Jac"o*bin*ize`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Jacobinized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Jacobinizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>Jacobiniser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism.</def>

<blockquote>France was not then <b>jacobinized</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jacobite</h1> <Xpage=795>

<hw>Jac"o*bite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Jacobus</ets> James: cf. F. <ets>Jacobite</ets>. See 2d <er>Jack</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Eng. Hist.)</fld> <def>A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.</def>