jack 
3200 
17. A kind of schooner-rigged vessel of from 10 =G. jackc, a jacket, jerkin, < OF.jaque, 
to 25 tons, until in tho Newfoundland fishcri' s. 
A Jack is KoiuTiilly full anil clumsy, with no uvorhang to 
UK runnier, and rallies u nmilisnil, foresail, and jib, some- 
times alsu a small mainstaysail. 
18. [cy>.] A Jacobite. [Cant.] in the quota 
tion it U II.TI! with a punning reference to the Hag. See 
dot. 16. 
With every wind lie snil'd. anil well cou'd tack, 
Had niuny pendents, but abhorr'd A Jack. 
Sirift, Elegy on Judge Boat 
19f. A farthing. [Eng. slang.] 20. A card- 
counter. [Eng. slang.] 
The "card-counters," or, as I have heard them some- 
times called by street-sellers, the "small coins," are now 
til a very limited sale. The slang name for these articles 
Is Jacks and " Half-Jacks." 
May/lew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 889. 
21. A seal. Munjark. [Old slang.] (The words 
in several of the phrases below are very commonly joined 
by hyphens, as in the quotations.! Buffalo-Jack, the 
carangold tlsh Caranx pi*quetrn. Builders' jack, a tem- 
porary staging put in a window ; a bracket or seat used 
in ele;miim, painting, or repairing a window. Also called 
miulme-jack. California jack, a game of cards resem- 
bling alt-fours. After six cards have been dealt to each 
player, and the trump determined, the umlealt cards are 
placed in a pack on the table face up, so that one card is 
exposed. Then the winner of each trick takes the top card 
into his hand, and the other players in order each one of 
the following cards. Every player thus continues to hold 
six cards until the deck is exhausted. Jack and low count 
each for the player who takes it. The game Is esteemed 
one of the best for two players. Cheap Jack. See cheap. 
Cornish jack, the chough or Cornish crow, Pyrrkoco- 
rax graculus. Every man Jack, every one without ex- 
ception. [Slang.] 
Sir Pitt had numbered entry inan Jack of them. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, vlil. 
,jaitjue,jtickc t dM. (Norm.)./"/.' 
jacq, 
= It. giaco, for- 
merly giacco, a 
jack or coat of 
mail. Origin ob- 
scure; perhaps, 
like jack 1 in 
other material 
senses, ult.< OF. 
Jaqw, ./tiri/iiix, 
a personal 
name: seejackl. 
Dim. jacket, q. 
v.] A coat of 
fence of cheap 
make worn by 
foot-soldiers, 
yeomen, and the 
like. The word is 
used indiscrimi- 
nately for the brig- 
andine, gambeson, 
and scale-coat, and 
is, in short, applied 
defensive 
Jack. 
(From ViolleMe-Dyc's "Diet, du 
Mobilicr Trancais." ) 
to any 
garment made of two folds of leather or linen with some- 
thing between them. (Bwrget and de Cotton.) Also, a 
leather garment upon which rings, etc., were sewed to 
form a coat of fence. Compare lorica, 2. 
But with the trusty bow, 
And jacks well quilted with soft wool, they came to Troy. 
Chapman, Iliad, ill. 
The Bill-men come to blows, that, with the cmel thwacks 
The ground lay strew'd with mail and shreds of tatter'd 
jacks. Drayton, Polyolblon, xxli. 186. 
To be upon one's jack*, to attack one violently. 
Te ulciscar, I will be revenged on thee : I will sit on thy 
skirts ; I will be upon your jacke for It. 
Terence in English (1614). 
My lord lay in Morton College ; and, as he was going 
to parliament one morning on foot, a man in a faire and 
< hill outward habit mett him, and jossel'd him. And, 
though I was at that time behind his lordship, I saw it 
not; for, If I had, I should have been upon his jack. 
A. Wilson, Autobiography. 
iterant clergyman who has no cure, jack 3 (jak), M. [Englished from jak, jaca : see 
;: aZ o ^ h ^TX s^ ^H * same **<7*.-a. * ^ 
._ ^ . _.'-_*'- ,._.. j O f the jack-tree : same as jaekfrutt. See jack- 
tree. 
Send them [the children] all to bed ; every man Jack of 
them ! C. Reade, Peg Wofflngton, vili. 
Five-fingered Jack. See fine-fingered. doggie-eyed 
Jack. See guggle-ei/nl. Great jack, a Urge Dottle for 
liquor: same as (xn*ard, 4. Hickory-jack. (o)Sameas 
' ' kory-shad, PomoUbv* medioeris.- 
... l,9(d). (6) The hick . 
Hydraulic jack. *eu hydraulic. Jack at a pinch, (o) 
A person who is employed or selected for some purpose as 
a necessity, or (or want of a better ; one who serves merely 
as a stopgap : sometimes used as an adverbial compound. 
Hence (6) A poor itii 
but officiates for a fee ii 
Eng. I Jack in office, . . . 
who gives himself airs. Jack in the green, a boy dress- 
ed with green garlands, or inclosed in a framework of 
leaves, for the May-day sports and dances. Also Jack-a- 
yreen. (Eng. | Jack in the water, a man who makes 
himself useful about wharves and docks, in landing pas- 
sengers, etc., and in doing odd jobs. Also c&\\edjack. [Kng. 
^ mon8trou9 jack tnat in iu eccentric bulk contains a 
who , e nlagazille j tastl . a an(1 8mells . 
p RoUmm, In my Indian Garden, p. 4!>. 
, ., . . . 
slang.] Jack o' Bedlam, see Bedlam. Jack of all Jack 4 (jak), M. [Abbr. of Jacqueminot, a florists' 
trades, a person who can turn his hand to any kind of na me for a favorite crimson variety of tea-rose.] 
work or business : often implying that he is not thorough- . T \i.- j nf . 
" aue 
ly expert in any one thing as expressed in the proverb, 
"Jaacofatt trades, master of none." Jack Of Dovert, 
a dish of some kind. 
. T \i.- j nf . 
A Jacqueminot rose. Also Jacque. 
"Therosesthat " " Wliatroses?" said Mrs. Van Cor- 
lear. " Why, I ordered some Jacks this morning. Didn't 
they come ? ' Scrioner's Mag. , IV. 757. 
Many &jakke of Dotxre hastow sold, 
That hath beei, i twles hotand twies cold jack-adams (jak'ad'amz), n. [< Jack Adams, a 
Chaucer, Prol. to Cooks Tale, 1. 23 J er name .] 
fp r o v En<r 1 
L / ,' '* 
[It is sometimes explained as the fish called sole, and 
, Works, II. 220. 
sometimes as a dish warmed up a second time.] Jack 
of straw. Sameasjacfortraw, i. 
I hate him, 
And would be married sooner to a monkey, 
Or to a Jack of Straw, than such a juggler. 
Fisher, wudgoose chase, ill. i. 
Jack of tie clock. See def. 6. Jack of the dust, a 
. ,' ' , i/ j /,!, i , j 
jackadandy (jak'a-dan'di), . ; pi. jackadan- 
<fte (-diz). [< jack 1 + -a- (a meaningless sylla- 
ble) + dandy 1 .] A little foppish fellow; adan- 
diprat. Vanbntqh, Confederacy. 
ja&.a.green (jak'a-gren'), n. Same as Jack 
,-. the qrrcn (which 'see, under jack 1 ). 
. . . , . 
man on board a United Status man-of-war appointed to i__vlyi.WA rWmarlv im-l-nJI anmnHmna 
assist the paymaster's yeoman in serving outVovlslons jackal (jak al) H. I formerly ja< A n, sometimes 
and other stores. Jack on both sidest, a man who sides accom. jack-call ; < O* . jackal, jakal, X . cliacal 
llrst with one party and then with another. 
Header, John Newter, who erst plaid 
The Jack on both sides, here is laid. 
Wits' Recreation! (1664). 
Jack out Of doorst, a houseless person ; a vagrant 
(> It. sciacal = G. Dan. Sw. schakal = D. ja- 
khals) = Sp. chacal = Pg. cliaeal, jacal = Turk. 
chaqal, < Ar. jaqal (usually tcawi or ibn dwi), < 
Pers. shagkal, a jackal ; cf . Skt. qrigala, a jack- 
al, a fox.] 1. A kind of wild dog somewhat 
Xeque pesslmus neque primus : not altogether Jack out resembling a fox, which inhabits Asia and Af- 
ofdoores, and yet no gentleman rica; one o f geve ral species of old-world fox- 
r,thals, Diet (ed. 1634), p. 569. ^ '<, w of fte ^ Cani &g c , of 
Jack out Of Office, a discharged official. ^^ ^ c '^^ J ^^ The ^^ ^ Qf 
For liberalitie, who was wont to be a pnncipall officer, gregarious habits, hunting in packs, rarely attacking the 
... is tourned Jacke out of office, and others appointed to 
have the ciistodie. 
Riche his Farewell to Militant Profession, 1681. (Nares.) 
Jack's land, in old English manors and village communi- 
ties, odds and ends of land in open fields, lying between tho 
allotments to tenants. Jack Tar. See def. 4. Round 
jack, in hal-makimi, a stand for holding a hat while the 
brim is trimmed to shape, To draw the jacks, in 
weaving. See draw. Union jack. See union Yel- 
low Jack, yellow fever. [Slang. ] 
vA'l, n., T 
jack-at-the-hedge 
<1K. anil may lie domesticated. The wild jackal emit* a 
biKlily 'itTrMhivi- ml"! r nun the jH>pnl:ir but erroneous 
notion that the jackal hunts up the prey for the king of 
beasts, he has been called the "lion's provider." 
The Inhabitants do nightly house their goats and sheep 
for fear of the Jacca.it. Sandys, Trsvailes, p. im. 
ICurzola] is one of the few spots In Europe where the 
jackal still lingers. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 204. 
Hence 2. Any one who does dirty work for 
another; one who meanly serves the purpose 
of another. 
He's the man who has all yonr hills ; Levy is only his 
jackal. Bulirer, My Novel, Ii IS. 
jackal-buzzard (jak'al-buz'iird), n. A book- 
name of liutt'ojackitl, an African buzzard. 
jackalegs, jack-o'-legs (jak'a-legz), n. [Cf. 
jntk-lntj-knift, under jack-knije, and jockteleg.] 
1. A large clasp-knife. 2. A tall, long-legged 
man. 
Jack-a-Lent (jak'a-lent), n. See Jack-o'-Lent. 
ja9kals-kost ( jak'alz-kost). n. [< jackal + G. 
Kost, food (f ).] A plant, Hydnora Africana, of 
the natural order Cytinacece. It bean, half-hurled 
in the earth, a single large flower, sessile upon the root- 
stock and baring a thick fungus-like perianth. It Is par- 
asitic upon the roots of succulent euphorbias and similar 
plants. It occurs, with other species, in South Africa, 
where it Is said to be roasted and eaten by the natives. 
jackanape (jak'a-nap), n. See jackanapes. 
jackanapes (jak'a-naps), n. [Fororig. Jack <? 
apes, Jack of apes, i. e. orig., it is supposed, a 
man who exhibited performing apes ; hence a 
vague term of contempt, the stress of thought 
being laid on ape, wnence the occasionally 
assumed singular jackanape, and the use of the 
word in the simple meaning ape. Cf. the later 
imitated forms, johnanapes and jane-of-apes.~\ 
If. A monkey : an ape. 
With signes and prefers, with noddyng, beckyng, and 
mowyng, as It were Jack-an-apes. Tyndale, Works, p. 132. 
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her 
favours, 1 could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a jack- 
an-apes, never off. Shak., Hen. V., v. 2, 148. 
Hence 2. A coxcomb; a ridiculous, imperti- 
nent fellow. 
I have myself caught a young jackanapes with a pair of 
silver fringed gloves, in the very fact. Spectator, No. 311. 
None of your sneering, puppy ! no grinning, jackanapes! 
Sheridan, The Rivals, ft. 1. 
3. In mining, tho small guide-pulleys of a whim, 
jack-ape (jak'ap), n. A male ape. 
A great jack-ape o' the forest The Spectator. 
jack-arcb. (jak'arch), M. An arch whose thick- 
ness is of only one brick. 
jackare, . See jacare, 1. 
jackaroo (jak-a-rS'), n. [Australian.] A new 
chum ; a new arrival from England in the bush. 
[Slang, Australia.] 
The young Jackaroo woke early next morning and went 
to look around him. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 53. 
jackash ( jak'ash), n. [Appar. Amer. Ind.] The 
mink or vison of North America, Putorius tison. 
jackass (jak'as), n. [< jacW + ossi.] 1. A 
male ass; a jack. 
A jackass heehaws from the rick, 
The passive oxen gaping. Tennyson, Amphion. 
Hence 2. A very stupid or ignorant person: 
used in contempt. 3. JN<JHf.,same as hairse-bag. 
Jackass copal, chacaze copal. See copal. Laughing 
jackass, the giant kingflsher, Dacelo gigas : so called from 
its discordant outcry. See cut under Dacelo. Also called 
settlers' clock. [Australia.] 
, 
jack 1 (jak), v. [ < 
ith 
11.] I. trans. 1. To 
operate on with a jack ; lift with a jack. 
As soon as it [the bridge) reaches Its position, It is jacked 
up. SW. Amer., N. S., LV1II. 31. 
2. To hunt with a jack. See jcA' 1 , ., 11 U). 
II. in/ran*. To use a jack in hunting or fish- 
ing; seek or find game by means of a jack. 
The streams are not suited to the floating or jacking 
with a lantern in the bow of the canoe. 
T. Roosewlt, Hunting Trips, p. 168. 
jack- (jak), H. [< WE. jackc, jakkc, jak, a jack, 
= OD.jakke, D.jak = S-w.jacka = D&n.jakke 
Black-backed Jackal (Camit mtspmtlat). 
larger quadrupt'ds. lurking during the day. and coming out 
jackass-brig (jak'as-brig), n. Abrigwith square 
topsail and topgallantsail instead of a gaff-top- 
sail. 
jackass-deer (jak'as-der), n. An African an- 
telope, the singsing, Kobus singsing. 
jackass-fish (jak'as-fish), n. A fish of the fam- 
ily Cirritida', Cliilndactylus macropteriix, inhab- 
iting the Australian seas, attaining a length of 
nearly 2 feet, and esteemed as one of the best 
food-fishes of the country. 
jackassism (jak'as-izm), . [< jackass + -ism.] 
Stupidity. [Rare.] 
Calling names, whether done to attack or to back a schism, 
Is, Miss, believe me, a great piece of jack-ass ism. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends II. 268. 
jackass-penguin (jak'as-pen'gwin), n. A sail- 
ors' name of the common penguin, Spheniscus 
dpHicrsits. See penguin. 
jackass-rabbit ( jak'as-rab'it), . Same as jack- 
rabbit. 
Our conversation was cut short by a jackass-rabbit bound- 
ing from under our horses' feet. 
Audubon, Quadrupeds of N. A., II. 95. 
at night with dismal cries. They feed on the remnants . . . t ^ >, /)<rn (iat'nt thS hpi'1 Thfl 
of the lion's prey, dead carcasses, and the smaller animals jack-at-the-fteCtge Uej ), II. 
and poultry. The jackal interbreeds with the common -'-' ' 1- It.* 
plant Galiiim Jparine, commonly called cleav- 
