| jenner | (n) English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823), Syn. Edward Jenner |
| jennet | (n) female donkey, Syn. jenny ass, jenny |
| jenny | (n) United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907), Syn. William Le Baron Jenny |
| silver jenny | (n) silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic, Syn. Eucinostomus gula |
| spinning jenny | (n) an early spinning machine with multiple spindles |
| bryan | (n) United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925), Syn. Boy Orator of the Platte, William Jennings Bryan, Great Commoner |
| lind | (n) Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887), Syn. Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind |
| moneywort | (n) a loosestrife vine, Syn. Lysimachia nummularia, creeping Jenny, creeping Charlie |
| wren | (n) any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects, Syn. jenny wren |
| Jennet | n. [ F. genet, Sp. jinete, orig., a mounted soldier, Ar. zenāta a tribe of Barbary celebrated for its cavalry. ] A small Spanish horse; a genet. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jenneting | n. [ Prob. fr. a dim. of Jean John, so named as becoming ripe about St. John's day, June 24. F. Jean is fr. L. Johannes. See Zany. ] A variety of early apple. See Juneating. [ Written also geniting. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Jenny | n.; pl. Jennies [ 1913 Webster ] 1. A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Zool.) A familiar name of the European wren. [ 1913 Webster ]
Jenny ass (Zool.), a female ass; also, a female of certain other animals. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
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| Jenny | n. [ A corruption of gin an engine; influenced by Jenny, the proper name. See Gin an engine, and cf. Ginny-carriage. ] A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories. Also called spinning jenny. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Mule-jenny | n. See Mule, 4. [ 1913 Webster ] |
