Apple-jack
(n.) Apple brandy. |
Black-jack
(n.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende |
Black-jack
(n.) Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. |
Black-jack
(n.) A large leather vessel for beer, etc. |
Black-jack
(n.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak. |
Black-jack
(n.) The ensign of a pirate. |
Botanical
(a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
Cheap-jack
(n.) Alt. of Cheap-john |
Genus
(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Jack
(n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow. |
Jack
(n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John. |
Jack
(n.) An impertinent or silly fellow |
Jack
(n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor |
Jack
(n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack |
Jack
(n.) A device to pull off boots. |
Jack
(n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck. |
Jack
(n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit |
Jack
(n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. |
Jack
(n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles. |
Jack
(n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads |
Jack
(n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine. |
Jack
(n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal. |
Jack
(n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather. |
Jack
(n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed. |
Jack
(n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught. |
Jack
(n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill |
Jack
(n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night |
Jack
(n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack. |
Jack
(n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls. |
Jack
(n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass. |
Jack
(n.) A young pike |
Jack
(n.) The jurel. |
Jack
(n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus) |
Jack
(n.) The wall-eyed pike. |
Jack
(n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint |
Jack
(n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap |
Jack
(n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds |
Jack
(n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards. |
Jack
(n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather. |
Jack
(n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather |
Jack
(v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n. |
Jack
(v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5. |
Jack-a-dandy
(n.) A little dandy |
Jack-a-lent
(n.) A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent |
Jack Ketch
() A public executioner, or hangman. |
Jack-o'-lantern
(n.) See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. |
Minute-jack
(n.) A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks |
Minute-jack
(n.) A timeserver |
Supple-jack
(n.) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. |
all fours
high-low-jack | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game |
beggar-my-neighbor
beggar-my-neighbour
strip-Jack-naked | a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
phytotherapy
herbal therapy
botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter
genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
| bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter
genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium
genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium
genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
| genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
| genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
| genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
| genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas
genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas
genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter
genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas
genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
| genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides
genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium
genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella
genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
| genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
| genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
| genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia
Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
| genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
| genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
| genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
| genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
| genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
| genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium
genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus
genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
| genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
| genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
| genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta
genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
| genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
| genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
| genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |
| protoctist genus | any genus of Protoctista |
| genus Amoeba | protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water |
Endamoeba
genus Endamoeba | the type genus of the family Endamoebidae |