| 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 |
| jackson | (n) 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845), Syn. Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory |
| jackson | (n) a town in western Wyoming |
| jackson | (n) a town in western Tennessee |
| jackson | (n) capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River, Syn. capital of Mississippi |
| jackson | (n) a town in south central Michigan |
| jacksonia | (n) genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches, Syn. genus Jacksonia |
| jacksonian | (n) a follower of Andrew Jackson or his ideas |
| jacksonian | (adj) of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy |
| jacksonian epilepsy | (n) focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body |
| jacksonville | (n) Florida's largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida |
| jackstraw | (n) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws, Syn. spillikin |
| jackstraws | (n) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others, Syn. spillikins |
| port jackson fig | (n) Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood, Syn. Botany Bay fig, Ficus rubiginosa, little-leaf fig, rusty rig |
| port jackson heath | (n) small shrub of southern and western Australia having pinkish to rosy purple tubular flowers, Syn. Epacris purpurascens |
| port jackson pine | (n) Australian cypress pine having globular cones, Syn. Callitris cupressiformis |
| downing | (n) United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852), Syn. Andrew Jackson Downing |
| jack | (n) game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks, Syn. jackstones |
| lee | (n) United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957), Syn. Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee |
| pectoral sandpiper | (n) American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting, Syn. jacksnipe, Calidris melanotos |
| pollock | (n) United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956), Syn. Jackson Pollock |
| snead | (n) United States golfer known for the graceful arc of his swing (1912-2002), Syn. Sam Snead, Samuel Jackson Snead |
| thomas | (n) a radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World War II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981), Syn. Lowell Thomas, Lowell Jackson Thomas |
| turner | (n) United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951), Syn. Frederick Jackson Turner |
| ward | (n) English economist and conservationist (1914-1981), Syn. Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth |
| 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 ] |
