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Same as Strait-jacket.

A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.

gh skin is used for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also leather jacket, and turbot.

A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.

r papers, precipitates, etc.; -- called also air bath. A modified form is provided with a jacket in the outside partition for holding water, or other volatile liquid, by which the temperature may be limited exactly to the required degree. -- Vapor burner, a burner for burning a vaporized hydrocarbon. -- Vapor density…

e genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.

o insure greater soundness and uniformity of resistance. In modern construction hoops and jackets are shrunk on over the wire.

d over. In the Cornwall and Devon wrestling, the wrestlers complete in strong loose linen jackets, catching hold of the jacket, or anywhere above the waist. Two shoulders and one hip, or two hips and one shoulder, must touch the ground to constitute a fall, and if a man is thrown otherwise than on his back the contesta…

ellow fever. See under 2d Jack. (b) The quarantine flag. See under Quarantine. -- Yellow jacket (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American social wasps of the genus Vespa, in which the color of the body is partly bright yellow. These wasps are noted for their irritability, and for their painful stings. -- Yellow…