Jet — Defs

01 n. Same as 2d Get.

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Same as 2d Get.[Obs.] See: Get

02 n. A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewel…

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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 black amber.(Min.) Also: black amber

Phrases & compounds

Jet ant — a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

03 n. 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…

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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.
2.
Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.[Obs.]
3.
The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Phrases & compounds

Jet propeller — a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.

Jet pump — 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.

04 v. i. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

imp. & p. p. Jetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jetting

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To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.[Obs.]
“he jets under his advanced plumes!” — Shak.

“To jet upon a prince's right.” — Shak.
2.
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.[Obs.]
3.
To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

05 v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.

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To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
“A dozen angry models jetted steam.” — Tennyson.