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See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. JACKPOT Jackpot

A particular form of Vishnu, or of Krishna, whose chief idol and worship are at Puri, in Orissa. The idol is considered to contain the bones of Krishna and to possess a soul. The principal festivals are the Snanayatra, when the idol is bathed, and the Rathayatra, when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene…

A blockhead. [Colloq. & Obs.] H. Taylor.

ich Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos. [Written also Juggernnath, Jaganath, Jaganatha, etc.]

of contempt. Macaulay. Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns. Shak.

A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest-home. Called also harvest queen.

ce projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type. "In Roman, f and j are the only kerned letters." MacKellar.

in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp. ' A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel Shak.

Having a kernel.

Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels. Holland.

Clownish; booorish. [Obs.] "A petty kernish prince." Milton.

A name given to earthnuts of several kinds.

A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.

Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.

The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, or Lampetra, fluviatilis).

secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.

Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.

Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.