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e bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.

A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. A young upstart jackanapes. Arbuthnot.

To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts. Milton.

Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.

Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. [Obs.] Our jovial star reigned at his birth. Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets. Sir T. Browne.

abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. From the jump, from the start or beginning. [Colloq.] -- Jump joint. (a) A butt joint. (b) A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels. -- Jump seat. (a) A movable carriage seat. (b) A carriage constructed with a seat which may be shifted so as t…

spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.

A weed; a kecksy. Bp. Gauden. Though the rough kex break The starred mosaic. Tennyson.

To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings. His breath kindleth coals. Job xii. 21.

Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire.

A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.

Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of the stars." W. Irving.

he "plover's eggs" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to Ant: starboard.

t day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. Neh. viii. 18. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night. Milton.

To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise. All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England. Eikon Basilike.

ion or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child. To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice. Milton.

A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle. Leo Minor, a small constellation between Leo and the Great Bear.

One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty- three years; so called because shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.