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Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors. Tennyson.

Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. W. Phillips.

A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.

2. (a) An unusually large success in an enterprise, either unexpected or unpredictable, esp. one providing a great financial benefit. hit the jackpotto receive an unexpectedly large (or the largest possible) benefit from an enterprise.

A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delive…

The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]

Perilous; hazardous. His goodly, valiant, and jeopardous enterprise. Fuller. -- Jeop"ard*ous*ly, adv. Huloet.

ntained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.

A prison; a jail; a lockup. [Slang] Gay.

A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.

Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution. Ayliffe.

idence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest. The jury, passing on the prisoner's life. Shak.

ice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]

the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle. The prison strong, Within whose keep the captive knights were laid. Dryden. The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps. Hallam. I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circl…

One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.

Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.

An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by me; as, La me! [Low]

Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] Cowper.