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A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure." Addison.

The act of espying; notice; discovery. Screened from espial by the jutting cape. Byron.

The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.

To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

To jut out; to project. [Obs.] Florio.

urnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant. [Written also marabu.]

To hang over; to jut or project over. Pope.

Jutting over; projecting; overhanging. "A vapor sometime like a . . . pendent rock." Shak.

To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.

A jutting out beyond a surface.

Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase.

To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory. There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. Dickens.

Europe. Black-necked stork, the East Indian jabiru. -- Hair-crested stork, the smaller adjutant of India (Leptoptilos Javanica). -- Giant stork, the adjutant. -- Marabou stork. See Marabou. -- Saddle-billed stork, the African jabiru. See Jabiru. -- Stork's bill (Bot.), any plant of the genus Pelargonium; -- so cal…

To wash; to drench. [Obs.] As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak.

A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.

Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute. [India]

Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.