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1: a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground [syn: {friar's lantern}, {ignis fatuus}, {will-o'-the-wisp}] 2: lantern carved from a pumpkin

1: a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent [syn: {jack-o-lantern fungus}, {jack-a-lantern}, {Omphalotus illudens}]

1: a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent [syn: {jack-o-lantern}, {jack-a-lantern}, {Omphalotus illudens}]

1: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: {mariner}, {seaman}, {tar}, {Jack}, {old salt}, {seafarer}, {gob}, {sea dog}]

1: Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair [syn: {Canis aureus}]

1: someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous [syn: {whippersnapper}, {lightweight}]

1: a man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: {fathead}, {goof}, {goofball}, {bozo}, {goose}, {cuckoo}, {twat}, {zany}] 2: male donkey [syn: {jack}]

1: large spotted bat of southwestern United States having enormous ears [syn: {spotted bat}, {Euderma maculata}]

1: small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call [syn: {Spheniscus demersus}]

1: (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot [syn: {Hessian boot}, {hessian}, {Wellington}, {Wellington boot}]

1: common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: {daw}, {Corvus monedula}]

{jackaroo}

1: a short coat 2: an outer wrapping or casing; "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets" 3: (dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth [syn: {jacket crown}] 4: th...

1: (dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth [syn: {jacket}]

1: a baked potato served with the jacket on

{jackfish}

1: East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds [syn: {jackfruit tree}, {Artocarpus heterophyllus}] 2: immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly ...

1: East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds [syn: {jackfruit}, {Artocarpus heterophyllus}]

1: a hammer driven by compressed air [syn: {air hammer}, {pneumatic hammer}]

1: United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) [syn: {Robinson}, {Jack Roosevelt Robinson}]

1: slang terms for masturbation [syn: {jerking off}, {hand job}, {wank}]

1: a large knife with one or more folding blades [syn: {clasp knife}] 2: a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out v : dive into the water bending the body at the wa...

1: marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell [syn: {razor clam}, {knife-handle}]

1: black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin [syn: {Equetus lanceolatus}]

{jackknife}

1: a light used as lure in hunting or fishing at night v : hunt with a jacklight [syn: {jack}]

1: the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: {pot}, {kitty}] 2: any outstanding award

1: large hare of western North America

1: plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks [syn: {jackstones}] 2: a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in variou...

{jack-in-the-box}

1: screw-operated jack [syn: {screw jack}]

1: large silversides of Pacific coast of North America [syn: {Atherinopsis californiensis}]

1: a small short-billed Old World snipe [syn: {half snipe}, {Limnocryptes minima}] 2: American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting [syn: {pectoral sandpiper}, {Calidris melanotos}]

1: English film actress who later became a member of Parliament (born in 1936) [syn: {Glenda Jackson}] 2: United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly succes...

1: United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956) [syn: {Pollock}]

1: genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches [syn: {genus Jacksonia}]

1: of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy

1: focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body

1: Florida's largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida

1: plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks [syn: {jacks}] 2: a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various gro...

1: a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws [syn: {spillikin}]

1: a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others [syn: {spillikins}]

1: French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920) [syn: {Francois Jacob}] 2: (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patria...

1: British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959) [syn: {Epstein}, {Sir Jacob Epstein}]

1: Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609) [syn: {Arminius}, {Jacobus Arminius}, {Jakob Hermandszoon}]

1: pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers [syn: {Greek valerian}, {charity}, {Polemonium caeruleum}, {Polemonium van-bruntiae}, {Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae}] 2: (...

1: asphodel having erect smooth unbranched stem either flexuous or straight

1: desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers [syn: {ocotillo}, {coachwhip}, {v...

1: of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers" n : any distinguished personage during the reign of James I

1: Mexican bulbous herb cultivated for its handsome bright red solitary flower [syn: {Aztec lily}, {Strekelia formosissima}]

1: German mathematician (1804-1851) [syn: {Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi}]

1: a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

1: of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism" [syn: {Jacobinical}]

1: of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism" [syn: {Jacobinic}]

1: the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror

1: a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts

1: English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943) [syn: {W. W. Jacobs}, {William Wymark Jacobs}] 2: United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916) [syn: {Jane Jacobs}] 3: Dutch ...

1: Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609) [syn: {Arminius}, {Jacob Harmensen}, {Jakob Hermandszoon}]

1: a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages

1: Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594) [syn: {Tintoretto}]