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Jamaicine.

Same as Jemidar.

One of the West India is islands. Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white ginger, prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. -- Jamaica pepper, allspice. -- Jamaica rose (Bot.), a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervis), with showy p…

Of or pertaining to Jamaica. -- n.

aloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina. Watts.

See Jam, v. t.

A fashionable cane. [Obs.] Tatler.

In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees. [Written also giambeux.] Chaucer.

A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit.

The Java plum; also, a drug obtained from its bark and seeds, used as a remedy for diabetes.

A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling.

A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers. [Written also jamdanee.] Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.

A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.

The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

See Benzoin.

A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin. Judg. iii. 15.

Low, worthless people; the rabble. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Same as Clamjamphrie. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.