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noun

Jet n. Same as 2d Get. (Obs.)

Jet n. (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 (Zool.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

Jet n.

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.

Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. (Obs.)

The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

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.

verb

Jet v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. "A dozen angry models jetted steam."

Jet v. i. (past & past part. jetted; pres. part. jetting)

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. (Obs.) " he jets under his advanced plumes!" "To jet upon a prince's right."

To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. (Obs.)

To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jet" Quotes from Famous Books

... maintained the whole continues to subsist, no matter what position any particular particle may go into, just as a fountain continues to exist no matter whether any particular drop of water is down in the basin or at the top of the jet. This is the generic action which keeps the race going as a whole. But the question is, What is going to become of ourselves? Then because the law of the whole is also the law of the part we may at once say that what is wanted is ...

— The Creative Process in the Individual • Thomas Troward

... famous Statuary could not form the Figure of a Man more admirably turn'd from Head to Foot. His Face was not of that brown rusty Black which most of that Nation are, but a perfect Ebony, or polished Jet. His Eyes were the most aweful that could be seen, and very piercing; the White of 'em being like Snow, as were his Teeth. His Nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat: His Mouth the finest shaped that could be seen; far from those great ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... cries the umpire, "cease your pother! The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night, 15 And viewed it o'er by candle light; I marked it well—'twas black as jet; You stare—but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it." "Pray, sir, do; I'll lay my life the thing is blue." 20 "And I'll engage that when you've seen The ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... huge, jet-black negro, and, unlike all the negroes Harvey had met, did not talk, contenting himself with smiles and dumb-show invitations to ...

— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling

... broke from the others, and for a few minutes there was no thought of the Indians, whose bullets were still falling in the water, for the most part short of the boats. A sharp tap on the side of Harry's canoe, followed by a jet ...

— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty

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