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61 words match “JUT”

JUT v. 4 definitions
To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." Wordsworth. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.
JUTE n.
The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.
JUTES n.
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
JUTLANDER n.
A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark.
JUTLANDISH a.
Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland.
JUTTING a.
Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.
JUTTY n. 2 definitions
A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty. Shak.
ADJUTAGE n.
Same as Ajutage.
ADJUTANCY n. 2 definitions
The office of an adjutant.
ADJUTANT n. 3 definitions
ding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of…
ADJUTATOR n.
A corruption of Agitator.
ADJUTE v.
To add. [Obs.]
ADJUTOR n.
A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.
ADJUTORY a.
Serving to help or assist; helping. [Obs.]
ADJUTRIX n.
A female helper or assistant. [R.]
AJUTAGE n.
A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.
COADJUTANT a. 2 definitions
Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.
COADJUTING a.
Mutually assisting. [Obs.] Drayton.
COADJUTIVE a.
Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham.
COADJUTOR n. 2 definitions
One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.
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