Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter J - Page 1
J () J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.
Jaal goat () A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela.
Jab (v. t.) (v. t.) 刺，戳[（+with/ into）]；（用撥火棒等）捅 ；(v. i.) 猛刺，猛戳；猛擊 [（+at）] To thrust; to stab; to punch. See {Job}, v. t. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]
Jab (n.) [C] 猛戳，猛擊；【口】注射 A thrust or stab. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]
Jab (n.) A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist" [syn: {jab}, {jabbing}, {poke}, {poking}, {thrust}, {thrusting}].
Jab (n.) A quick short straight punch.
Jab (n.) The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs" [syn: {dig}, {jab}].
Jab (v.) Poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" [syn: {jab}, {prod}, {stab}, {poke}, {dig}].
Jab (v.) Strike or punch with quick and short blows.
Jab (v.) Stab or pierce; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife" [syn: {stab}, {jab}].
Jabbered (imp. & p. p.) of Jabber.
Jabbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jabber.
Jabber (v. i.) 快而含糊地說；吱喳地叫；信口閒談 To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. -- Swift.
Jabber (v. t.) 快而含糊地說出 To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French. -- Addison.
Jabber (n.) 快而含糊不清的話；無聊的閒談 Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. -- Swift.
Jabber (n.) One who jabbers.
Jabber (n.) Rapid and indistinct speech [syn: {jabber}, {jabbering}, {gabble}].
Jabber (v.) Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: {rant}, {mouth off}, {jabber}, {spout}, {rabbit on}, {rave}].
Jabberingly (adv.) In a jabbering manner.
Jabberment (n.) Jabber. [R.] -- Milton.
Jabbernowl (n.) Same as Jobbernowl.
Jabiru (n.) (Zool.) 大鸛；鸛屬大涉禽之一種 One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits.
Note: The American jabiru ({Mycteria Americana) is white, with the head and neck black and nearly bare of feathers. The East Indian and Australian ({Xenorhynchus Australis) has the neck, head, and back covered with glossy, dark green feathers, changing on the head to purple. The African jabiru ({Mycteria Senegalensis or Ephippiorhynchus, Senegalensis) has the neck, head, wing coverts, and tail, black, and is called also saddle-billed stork.
Jabiru (n.) Large mostly white Australian stork [syn: policeman bird, black-necked stork, jabiru, Xenorhyncus asiaticus].
Jabiru (n.) Large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle [syn: saddlebill, jabiru, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis].
Jabiru (n.) Large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America [syn: jabiru, Jabiru mycteria].
Jaborandi (n.) (Bot.) The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub ({Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.
Jaborine (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves, from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance. In its action it resembles atropine.
Jabot (n.) 鑲在女服胸前的皺褶花邊，胸飾；十八世紀男子穿的襯衫領子前的皺褶花邊 Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt.
Jabot (n.) An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.
Jabot (n.) A ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt.
Jacamar (n.) (Zool.) 鶲鴷科 Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant.
Jacamar (n.) Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
Jacana (n.) (Zool.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.
Note: The most common South American species is Jacana spinosa. The East Indian or pheasant jacana ({Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is remarkable for having four very long, curved, middle tail feathers.
Jacaranda (n.) (Bot.) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.
Jacaranda (n.) (Bot.) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers.
Jacaranda (n.) An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black [syn: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, jacaranda, Dalbergia nigra].
Jacare (n.) (Zool.) A cayman. See Yacare.
Compare: Yacare
Yacare (n.) (Zool.) A South American crocodilian ({Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman. [Written also jacare.]
Note: The name is also applied to allied species.
Jacchus (n.) (Zool.) The common marmoset ({Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name was also applied to other species of the same genus.
Jacconet (n.) See Jaconet.
Jaconet (n.) A thin cotton fabric, between cambric and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc. [Written also jacconet.]
Jacent (a.) Lying at length; as, the jacent posture. [R.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Jacinth (n.) See Hyacinth. -- Tennyson.
Jacinth (n.) A red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone [syn: hyacinth, jacinth].
Jacinth, () Properly a flower of a reddish blue or deep purple (hyacinth), and hence a precious stone of that colour (Rev. 21:20). It has been supposed to designate the same stone as the ligure (Heb. leshem) mentioned in Ex. 28:19 as the first stone of the third row in the high priest's breast-plate. In Rev. 9:17 the word is simply descriptive of colour.
Jack (n.) (Bot.) 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. [Written also jak.]
Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. -- Shak.
Jack (n.) An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. "Jack fool." -- Chaucer.
Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. -- Shak.
Jack (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
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 ; as:
Jack (n.) A device to pull off boots.
Jack (n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
Jack (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
Jack (n.) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
Jack (n.) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
Jack (n.) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
Jack (n.) (Spinning) 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; -- called also hopper.
Jack (n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself. -- C. Hallock.
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. -- Shak.
Like an
uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl
straight forward upon it. -- Sir W. Scott.
Jack (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
Jack (n.) (Zool.) A young pike; a pickerel.
Jack (n.) (Zool.) The jurel.
Jack (n.) (Zool.) A large, California rock fish ({Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
Jack (n.) The wall-eyed pike.
Jack (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Jack (n.) (Naut.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
Jack (n.) (Naut.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree. -- R, H, Dana, Jr.
Jack (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.
Jack (n.) (pl.) A game played with small (metallic, with tetrahedrally oriented spikes) objects (the jacks(1950+), formerly jackstones) that are tossed, caught, picked up, and arranged on a horizontal surface in various patterns; in the modern American game, the movements are accompanied by tossing or bouncing a rubber ball on the horizontal surface supporting the jacks. same as jackstones.
Jack (n.) Money. [slang]
Jack (n.) Apple jack.
Jack (n.) Brandy.
Note: Jack is used adjectively in various senses. It sometimes designates something cut short or diminished in size; as, a jack timber; a jack rafter; a jack arch, etc.
Jack arch, An arch of the thickness of one brick.
Jack back (Brewing & Malt Vinegar Manuf.), A cistern which receives the wort. See under 1st Back.
Jack block (Naut.), A block fixed in the topgallant or royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts and spars.
Jack boots, Boots reaching above the knee; -- worn in the 17 century by soldiers; afterwards by fishermen, etc.
Jack crosstree. (Naut.) See 10, b, above.
Jack curlew (Zool.), The whimbrel.
Jack frame. (Cotton Spinning) See 4 (g), above.
Jack Frost, Frost or cold weather personified as a mischievous person.
Jack hare, A male hare. -- Cowper.
Jack lamp, A lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def. 4 (n.), above.
Jack plane, A joiner's plane used for coarse work.
Jack post, One of the posts which support the crank shaft of a deep-well-boring apparatus.
Jack pot (Poker Playing), The name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the "pot," which is the sum total of all the bets. See also jackpot.
Jack rabbit (Zool.), Any one of several species of large American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The California species ({Lepus Californicus), and that of Texas and New Mexico ({Lepus callotis), have the tail black above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({Lepus campestris) has the upper side of the tail white, and in winter its fur becomes nearly white.
Jack rafter (Arch.), In England, one of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building.
Jack salmon (Zool.), The wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
Jack sauce, An impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
Jack shaft (Mach.), The first intermediate shaft, in a factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
Jack sinker (Knitting Mach.), A thin iron plate operated by the jack to depress the loop of thread between two needles.
Jack snipe. (Zool.) See in the Jacksnipe.
Jacksnipe (n.) (Zool.) 小鷸；數種類似小鷸之鳥 A small European snipe ({Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.
Jacksnipe (n.) (Zool.) A small American sandpiper ({Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
Jacksnipe (n.) A small short-billed Old World snipe [syn: jacksnipe, half snipe, Limnocryptes minima].
Jacksnipe (n.) American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting [syn: pectoral sandpiper, jacksnipe, Calidris melanotos].
Jack staff (Naut.), A staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon which the jack is hoisted.
Jack timber (Arch.), Any timber, as a rafter, rib, or studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the others.
Jack towel, A towel hung on a roller for common use.
Jack truss (Arch.), In a hip roof, a minor truss used where the roof has not its full section.
Jack tree. (Bot.) See 1st Jack, n.
Jack yard (Naut.), A short spar to extend a topsail beyond the gaff.
Blue jack, Blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
Hydraulic jack, A jack used for lifting, pulling, or forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply of liquid, as oil.
Jack-at-a-pinch. (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an emergency.
Jack-at-a-pinch. (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional service for a fee.
Jack-at-all-trades, One who can turn his hand to any kind of work.
Jack-by-the-hedge (Bot.), A plant of the genus Erysimum ({Erysimum alliaria, or Alliaria officinalis), which grows under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not unlike garlic. Called also, in England, sauce-alone. -- Eng. Cyc.
Jack-in-office, An insolent fellow in authority. -- Wolcott.
Jack-in-the-bush (Bot.), A tropical shrub with red fruit ({Cordia Cylindrostachya).
Jack-in-the-green, A chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
Jack-of-the-buttery (Bot.), The stonecrop ({Sedum acre"> Jack-of-the-buttery (Bot.), the stonecrop ({Sedum acre).
Jack-of-the-clock, A figure, usually of a man, on old clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
Jack-on-both-sides, One who is or tries to be neutral.
Jack-out-of-office, One who has been in office and is turned out. -- Shak.
Jack the Giant Killer, The hero of a well-known nursery story.
Yellow Jack (Naut.), The yellow fever; also, the quarantine flag. See Yellow flag, under Flag.
Jack (n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad. -- Sir J. Harrington.
Jack (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
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 (n.) A small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit].
Jack (n.) A man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog].
Jack (n.) Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor [syn: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack].
Jack (n.) Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted [syn: jackfruit, jak, jack].
Jack (n.) A small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling.
Jack (n.) An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug.
Jack (n.) Game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks [syn: jack, jackstones].
Jack (n.) Small flag indicating a ship's nationality.
Jack (n.) One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince [syn: jack, knave].
Jack (n.) Tool for exerting pressure or lifting.
Jack (n.) Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas.
Jack (n.) Male donkey [syn: jack, jackass].
Jack (v.) Lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" [syn: jack, jack up].
Jack (v.) Hunt with a jacklight [syn: jacklight, jack].
JACK, () Java Application Component Kit (Java)
Jack -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 8763
Housing Units (2000): 3668
Land area (2000): 916.609219 sq. miles (2374.006877 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.504784 sq. miles (9.077349 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 920.114003 sq. miles (2383.084226 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.208587 N, 98.169992 W
Headwords:
Jack
Jack, TX
Jack County
Jack County, TX
Jack-a-dandy (n.) A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.
Jackal (n.) [C] (Zool.) 【動】豺，胡狼；走狗，爪牙；詐騙者；騙子 Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf.
They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.
Note: The common species of Southern Asia ({Canis aureus) is yellowish gray, varied with brown on the shoulders, haunches, and legs. The common African species ({Canis anthus) is darker in color.
Jackal (n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated. [Colloq.] -- Ld. Lytton.
Jackal (n.) 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: jackal, Canis aureus].
Jack-a-lent (n.) A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.
Jackanapes (n.) A monkey; an ape.
Jackanapes (n.) A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow.
Jackass (n.) The male ass; a donkey.
Jackass (n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.
Jackdaw (n.) See Daw, n.
Jackeen (n.) A drunken, dissolute fellow.
Jacket (n.) [C] 夾克，上衣；（馬鈴薯的）皮；外罩，保護罩，隔音罩；【機】套 A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
Jacket (n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.
Jacket (n.) (Mil.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
Jacket (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.
Blue jacket. (Naut.) See under Blue.
Steam jacket, A space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle.
To dust one's jacket, To give one a beating. [Colloq.]
Jacket (v. t.) 給……加外罩（或護套）；【口】打，揍；【俚】給……穿上緊身衣不使動彈；把……關進瘋人院 To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat. [Low]
Jacket (n.) A short coat.
Jacket (n.) An outer wrapping or casing; "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets".
Jacket (n.) (Dentistry) Dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" [syn: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, cap].
Jacket (n.) The outer skin of a potato.
Jacket (n.) The tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition.
Jacket (v.) Provide with a thermally non-conducting cover; "The tubing needs to be jacketed."
Jacket (v.) Put a jacket on; "The men were jacketed."
Jacketed (a.) Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket.
Jacketing (n.) The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.
Jack Ketch () A public executioner, or hangman.
Jackknife (n.) A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.
Jackleg (a.) 未成熟的；不正直的；代用的 Characterized by unscrupulousness, dishonesty, or lack of professional standards.
// A jackleg lawyer.
Jackleg (a.) Lacking skill or training : amateur.
// A jackleg carpenter.
Jackleg (a.) Designed as a temporary expedient : makeshift.
Jackmen (n. pl. ) of Jackman.
Jackman (n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n.
Jackman (n.) A cream cheese.
Jack-o'-lantern (n.) See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.
Jackpudding (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Jacksaw (n.) The merganser.
Jackscrew (n.) A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.
Jackslave (n.) A low servant; a mean fellow.
Jacksmith (n.) A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c.
Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.
Jacksnipe (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.
Jacksonville (n.) 傑克孫維（英語：Jacksonville）是美國佛羅里達州人口最多的城市，美國本土面積最大的城市 [9] [10]，也是杜弗郡的郡治。[11] 1968年，傑克孫維市與杜弗郡合併，令傑克孫維的城市規模擴張，大部分城市群人口集中在傑克孫維市域範圍內。截至2017年，傑克孫維人口約為892,092人，是美國東南部人口最多的城市。[12] 傑克孫維城市群人口為1,631,488人，是佛羅里達州第四大城市群。[13]
傑克孫維位於佛羅里達州東北部第一海岸地區，聖約翰河穿城而過，距離喬治亞州界線以南約40公里（25英里），邁阿密以北約550公里（340英里）。坐落於傑克孫維海岸的社區與大西洋沿岸相毗鄰。這片土地原本是蒂穆夸人的世居之地，1564年，法國殖民者在這裡建造了現今美洲大陸最早的歐洲人定居點之一——卡洛琳堡。在英治時期，定居點建在一塊有牛群經過的河流狹窄處，塞米諾爾人稱其為瓦卡皮拉卡（Wacca Pilatka），英國人稱其為牛灘（Cow Ford）。1822年，也就是美國從西班牙的手中拿到佛羅里達後的第二年，這裡開始了建設，後來，這座全新的城市以佛羅里達領地首任總督、第七任美國總統安德魯·傑克遜的名字命名。
自19世紀以來，港口設施的改善令傑克孫維成為了一座重要的軍民兩用深水港。五月港海軍基地、傑克孫維海軍航空兵訓練基地、美國海軍陸戰隊布朗特島司令部以及佛羅里達州第三大港傑克孫維港都沿河而建，交通便利。[14] 傑克孫維境內的軍事基地與臨近的國王灣海軍潛艇基地共同構成了全美第三大軍事基地。[15] 銀行業、保險業、醫療衛生和物流等服務行業是當地的支柱型產業。傑克孫維也是佛羅里達州重要的旅遊城市，尤其是高爾夫主題游發展最為突出。[16] [17]
Is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. [9] [10] It is the seat of Duval County, [11] with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. With an estimated population of 892,062 as of 2017, Jacksonville is also the most populous city in the southeastern United States. [12] The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,631,488 and is the fourth largest in Florida. [13]
Jacksonville is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River in the First Coast region of northeast Florida, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia state line and 340 miles (550 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and the Cow Ford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.
Harbor improvements since the late 19th century have made Jacksonville a major military and civilian deep-water port. Its riverine location facilitates Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island Command, and the Port of Jacksonville, Florida's third largest seaport. [14] Jacksonville's military bases and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay form the third largest military presence in the United States. [15] Significant factors in the local economy include services such as banking, insurance, healthcare and logistics. As with much of Florida, tourism is also important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf. [16] [17] People from Jacksonville may be called "Jacksonvillians" or "Jaxsons" (also spelled "Jaxons"). [6] [7]
Jackstay (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.
Jackstone (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
Jackstone (n.) (pl.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck. Also called jacks. See jack [12], n.
Jackstraw (n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. -- Milton.
Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin. A modern variation, called pick-up-sticks (U.S. 1940+), is played with thin wooden sticks of different colors, each color having different values for scoring; the sticks are dislodged from the pile with the hand or with one of the sticks.
Jackstraw (n.) A thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws [syn: jackstraw, spillikin].
Jackwood (n.) Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.
Jacob (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.
Jacobaean lily () A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower.
Jacobean (a.) Alt. of Jacobian.