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The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face. Gwilt.

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.

The splayed jambs of a flaring fireplace.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.

dwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back. Gwilt.

See Jamb.

ng, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.

To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

e ascension, etc. See under Angle,Ascension, etc. -- Oblique arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew. -- Oblique bridge, a skew bridge. See under Bridge, n. -- Oblique case (Gram.), any case except the nominative. See Case, n. -- Oblique ci…

A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree (Jambosa Malaccensis) which bears crimson berries.

n drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. [Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly." Chaucer.

one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond with splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.

, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]

ck, a lock that may be applied to a door opening in either direction, or hinged to either jamb. -- Reversible process. See under Process.