Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Jet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jet \Jet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jetted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Jetting}.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw.
See 3d {Jet}, and cf. {Jut}.]
1. 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.] --Wiseman.
3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jet \Jet\, n.
Same as 2d {Get}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates,
fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in
Lycia.] [written also {jeat}, {jayet}.] (Min.)
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}.
{Jet ant} (Zo["o]l.), a blackish European ant ({Formica
fuliginosa}), which builds its nest of a paperlike
material in the trunks of trees.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jet \Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a
throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. {Abject}, {Ejaculate},
{Gist}, {Jess}, {Jut}.]
1. 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. --Knight.
{Jet propeller} (Naut.), 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jet \Jet\, v. t.
To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
jet
adj : of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
[syn: {coal-black}, {jet-black}, {pitchy}, {sooty}]
n 1: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: {jet
plane}, {jet-propelled plane}]
2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn: {squirt},
{spurt}, {spirt}]
3: a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish
and is used in jewellery or ornamentation
4: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: {fountain}]
v 1: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth;
"Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the
building" [syn: {gush}]
2: fly a jet plane
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