The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . ak-o-bit/i-kal-i), adr. In a man-ner oi s]iirit resembling that of the Jacobitesof (ircat lirilniu. Jacobitism (.jako-bit-i/.m), V. [»i, Quarterly /Ctry., CL-\III. 284. Jacobs-chariot(,iakobz-(diari-gt),». Tliecom-mon monks-hood, Aconilum NajicUus. [] jacobsite (jakob-zit), n. [< Jaknbsibcrfl) (seedef.) + -ilc-.] An oxid of manganese and ironrelated to magnet ite and belonging to the spinelgimip. found at JnUobslicrg in Sweden. Jacobs-ladder(,irikobz-
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . ak-o-bit/i-kal-i), adr. In a man-ner oi s]iirit resembling that of the Jacobitesof (ircat lirilniu. Jacobitism (.jako-bit-i/.m), V. [»i, Quarterly /Ctry., CL-\III. 284. Jacobs-chariot(,iakobz-(diari-gt),». Tliecom-mon monks-hood, Aconilum NajicUus. [] jacobsite (jakob-zit), n. [< Jaknbsibcrfl) (seedef.) + -ilc-.] An oxid of manganese and ironrelated to magnet ite and belonging to the spinelgimip. found at JnUobslicrg in Sweden. Jacobs-ladder(,irikobz-ladcr),». fin allusionto tile ladder si-cn by tlie pati-iarch Jacob in adream (Gen. xxviii. 12).] 1. Naut., a rope lad-. Jacobs-ladtler {.Poletnoniiini carultHni). I, rootstock and lower part of stem ; 2. upper part of stem with flowers; (I, half of a flower from within : b, fruit. Jacobs-ladder der with wooden steps or spokes by which togo aloft. Also called jV/(7,--/»(W(T.— 2. A com-mon gavden-plant of . ^..^the geuus Iolciiiom- ?urn, the P. acriilcum,belonging to thenatural order Pole-moniacew: so calledfrom the ladder-like arrangement ofits leaves and leaf-lets. It is a favorite cot-tage-garden plant, and isfound in temperate andnortiiern latitudes in mostparts of the world. Itgrows tall and erect, aboutU feet high, with alter-nate pinnate, smooth,brignUgreen leaves, andterminal corymbs of hand-some blue (sometimeswhite) flowers The nameis sometimes locally ap-plied to several otherplants. 3. A toy in whichpieces of cardboard,wood, glass, or othermaterial are so con-nected, one above an-other, with strings ortapes, that when thehighest one is inverted those below it invertthemselves in successi
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