The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . 1, 2. To hunt with a jack. See jrwA-l, «., 11 (,/). II. intrans. 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 jaelcin/with a lantern in the bow of the canoe. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p, 168. jack2 (jak), n. [< ME. jackejakke, jtik, a jack,= OD. jakke, J), jak = Sw. jacka = Dan. jakke 3209 = Gr. jackc, a jacket, jerkin, < OF. Jaqnc, jacquc,jacq, jaiqiic, jnrkc, dial. (Norm.) juk
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . 1, 2. To hunt with a jack. See jrwA-l, «., 11 (,/). II. intrans. 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 jaelcin/with a lantern in the bow of the canoe. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p, 168. jack2 (jak), n. [< ME. jackejakke, jtik, a jack,= OD. jakke, J), jak = Sw. jacka = Dan. jakke 3209 = Gr. jackc, a jacket, jerkin, < OF. Jaqnc, jacquc,jacq, jaiqiic, jnrkc, dial. (Norm.) juke = Bpjaco= It. ffiaco, for-merly giacco, a,jack or coat ofmail. Origin ob-scure; jierhaps,like jack^ inother materialsenses, nit,< , Jacques,a personalname: seejack^.Dim. jacket, <] A coat offence of cheapmake worn byfoot-soldiers,3eomen, and thelike. The word isused indiscrimi-nately for the brig-aiidine, gambeson,and scale-coat, andis, in short, appliedto any defensivegarment made of two folds of leather or linen with some-thing between them. (Buryes and de Cosson.) Also,leather garn . , . form a coat t. Jack, (From Viol1et-le-L)ucs Mobilier frani^ais,) jack-at-the-hedge dog, and may be domesticated. The wild jackal emits ahighly offensive odor. From the popubu but enoneouanotion that the jackal hunts up the prey for the king ofbeasts, he has been called the lions provider, The Inhabitants do nightly house thcu goats and sheepfor feiu- of the Jaccals. Sandys, Ilavailes, p, lea [Curzola] is one of the few spots ill Europe where thejackal still luigers, F. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 204. Hence — 2. Anyone who does dirty work foranother; one who meanly serves the jiui-posoof another. Hes the man who has all your bills; Le^y is only hisjackal. Bulwer, .My Novel, ix, 13. jackal-buzzard (jakal-buz!ird), n. A book-name of Bntco jackal, an African , jack-o-legs (jaka-legz), «. [Cf. jiick-lay-knifc, under jack-kiiitc. and jncktelcij.]1. A large clas
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