Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Jacobean"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jacobaean lily \Jac`o*b[ae]"an lil"y\ [See {Jacobean}.] (Bot.)
A bulbous plant ({Amaryllis, or Sprekelia, formosissima})
from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike
flower. [Written also {Jacobean}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jacobean \Ja*co"be*an\ (?; 277), Jacobian \Ja*co"bi*an\, a.
[From L. Jacobus James. See 2d {Jack}.]
Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in
the time of James the First, of England. ``A Jacobean
table.'' --C. L. Eastlake.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Jacobean
adj : of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean
writers" [syn: {Jacobean}]
n : any distinguished personage during the reign of James I of
England [syn: {Jacobean}]
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