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ften wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber. Jet ant (Zoöl.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.

Black as jet; deep black.

A yellowness of the parts of plants which are normally green; yellows.

Jettison. See Jettison, 1.

See Jet d'eau. [R.] Addison.

See Jetty, n. Burke.

One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant.

See Jetsam, 1.

A metal counter used in playing cards.

Made of jet, or like jet in color. The people . . . are of a jetty. Sir T. Browne.

That which jets out or projects from anything. [R.] H. Miller.

A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.

See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]

The balsam, liquidambar. Black amber, and old and popular name for jet.

nsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of from the external jet of mixed gas and air. -- Back"-fir`ing, n.

at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.

A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.