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<note>&hand;The form <i>Jesu</i> is often used, esp. in the vocative.</note>

<blockquote><b>Jesu</b>, do thou my soul receive. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>The Society of Jesus</col>. <cd>See <er>Jesuit</er>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Jet</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as 2d <er>Get</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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<hw>Jet</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>jet</ets>, <ets>jayet</ets>, F. <ets>ja\'8bet</ets>, <ets>jais</ets>, L. <ets>gagates</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/; -- so called from <?/ or <?/, a town and river in Lycia.]</ety> <altsp>[written also <asp>jeat</asp>, <asp>jayet</asp>.]</altsp> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>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 <altname>black amber</altname>.</def>

<cs><col>Jet ant</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a blackish European ant (<spn>Formica fuliginosa</spn>), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Jet</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>jet</ets>, OF. <ets>get</ets>, <ets>giet</ets>, L. <ets>jactus</ets> a throwing, a throw, fr. <ets>jacere</ets> to throw. Cf. <er>Abject</er>, <er>Ejaculate</er>, <er>Gist</er>, <er>Jess</er>, <er>Jut</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<cs><col>Jet propeller</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.</cd> -- <col>Jet pump</col>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Jet</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Jetted</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Jetting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>jeter</ets>, L. <ets>jactare</ets>, freq. fr. <ets>jacere</ets> to throw. See 3d <er>Jet</er>, and cf. <er>Jut</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote> he <b>jets</b> under his advanced plumes! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To <b>jet</b> upon a prince's right. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Wiseman.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.</def>

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<hw>Jet</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.</def>

<blockquote>A dozen angry models <b>jetted</b> steam. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jet-black</h1> <Xpage=799>