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1: heavy pungent rum from Jamaica

1: (usually in the plural) short pants that end at the knee [syn: {Bermuda shorts}]

1: East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber [syn: {roselle}, {rozelle}, {sorrel}, {red sor...

1: of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants; "Jamaican rum"; "the Jamaican Prime Minister" n : a native or inhabitant of Jamaica

1: capital and largest city of Jamaica [syn: {Kingston}, {capital of Jamaica}]

1: a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves [syn: {calabur tree}, {calab...

1: the basic unit of money in Jamaica

1: the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy

1: upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame

1: spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery

1: armor plate that protects legs below the knee [syn: {greave}, {greaves}] [also: {jambeaux} (pl)]

{jambeau}

1: Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn: {tomatillo}, {miltomate}, {purple ground cherry}, {Physalis philadelphica}] ...

1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: {ham}, {gammon}]

1: a gay festivity [syn: {gala}, {gala affair}, {blowout}]

1: used in some classifications for rose apples (Eugenia jambos) [syn: {genus Jambos}]

1: tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit [syn: {rose apple}, {rose-apple tree}, {Eugenia jambos}]

1: United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882) [syn:...

1: 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) [syn: {Garfield}, {James Garfield}, {James Abraham Garfield}, {President Garfield}]

1: United States painter (1834-1903) [syn: {Whistler}]

1: 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) [syn: {Garfield}, {James Garfield}, {James A. Garfield}, {President Garfield}]

1: United States novelist (1909-1955) [syn: {Agee}]

1: United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) [syn: {Michener}, {James Michener}]

1: United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914) [syn: {Van Allen}]

1: United States author who was an outspoken citic of racism (1924-1987) [syn: {Baldwin}, {James Baldwin}]

1: influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) [syn: {Joyce}, {James Joyce}]

1: Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) [syn: {Murray}, {James Murray}, {James Augustus Murray}, {Sir James Murray}, {Sir James Augustus Murray}, {...

1: Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) [syn: {Murray}, {James Murray}, {James Augustus Henry Murray}, {Sir James Murray}, {Sir James Augustus Murr...

1: United States author who was an outspoken citic of racism (1924-1987) [syn: {Baldwin}, {James Arthur Baldwin}]

1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) [syn: {Barrie}, {J. M. Barrie}, {James Matthew Barrie}, {Sir James Matthew Barrie}]

1: the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario

1: Swiss mathematician (1654-1705) [syn: {Bernoulli}, {Jakob Bernoulli}, {Jacques Bernoulli}]

1: British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming [syn: {Bond}]

1: Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795) [syn: {Boswell}]

1: United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836) [syn: {Bowie}, {Jim Bowi...

1: United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958) [syn: {Cabell}]

1: 15th President of the United States (1791-1868) [syn: {Buchanan}, {President Buchanan}]

1: United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917) [syn: {Brady}, {Diamond Jim Brady}, {Diamond Jim}]

1: frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876) [syn: {Hickock}, {Wild Bill Hickock}]

1: United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955) [syn: {Dean}, {James Dean}]

1: United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986) [syn: {Cagney}, {Jimmy Cagney}]

1: British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862) [syn: {Ross}, {Sir James Clark Ross...

1: Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) [syn: {Maxwell}, {J. C. Maxwell}]

1: United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980) [syn: {Owens}, {Jesse Owens}]

1: English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) [syn: {Cook}, {Captain Cook}, {Captain James Cook}]

1: Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582) [syn: {Crichton}, {The Admirable Crichton}]

1: United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955) [syn: {Dean}, {James Byron Dean}]

1: United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928) [syn: {Watson}, {James Watson}]

1: United States rock singer (1943-1971) [syn: {Morrison}, {Jim Morrison}]

1: 39th President of the United States (1924-) [syn: {Carter}, {Jimmy Carter}, {James Earl Carter Jr.}, {President Carter}]

1: 39th President of the United States (1924-) [syn: {Carter}, {Jimmy Carter}, {James Earl Carter}, {President Carter}]

1: United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908) [syn: {Scripps}]

1: English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907) [syn: {Meade}]

1: United States novelist noted for his stories of indians and the frontier life (1789-1851) [syn: {Cooper}]

1: outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953) [syn: {Thorpe}, {Jim Thorpe}]

1: United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-...

1: 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) [syn: {Garfield}, {James A. Garfield}, {James Abraham Garfield}, {President Garfield}]

1: English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941) [syn: {Frazer}, {Sir James George Frazer}]

1: United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961) [syn: {Thurber}, {James Thurber}]

1: English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) [syn: {Hargreaves}]