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noun

Jet n. Same as 2d Get. (Obs.)

Jet n. (written also jeat, jayet) (Min.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.

Jet ant (Zool.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

Jet n.

A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. (Obs.)

The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.

Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.

verb

Jet v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. "A dozen angry models jetted steam."

Jet v. i. (past & past part. jetted; pres. part. jetting)

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. (Obs.) " he jets under his advanced plumes!" "To jet upon a prince's right."

To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. (Obs.)

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

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"Jet" Quotes from Famous Books

... all that, and plenty besides! Poor woman, she was in such distress that one could not but let her pour it all out, but I declare the din rang in my ears the whole night after. A very nice, respectable-looking body she was, with jet-black eyes like diamonds, and a rosy, countrified complexion, quite a treat to see in that grimy place, her widow's cap as white as snow, but oh, such a tongue! She would give me all her spiritual experiences—how she was converted by an awakening ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... eyes were dark brown, and his hair was jet black; He was supple in body, and straight in the back, Learnt his lessons without any trouble at all; And was lively, ...

— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling

... while she felt for a box of matches and lit the gas jet. In the parlor there was a bowl of milk standing waiting ...

— Havoc • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... lets the sun appear, Heaven then would seem thy image, and reflect Those sable vestments and that bright aspect. A spark of virtue by the deepest shade Of sad adversity is fairer made: No less advantage doth thy beauty get, A Venus rising from a sea of jet! ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... some young ones, with enormous heads, ventured to the edge of the hole. A little farther were yet stronger ones, who looked like young rats, ferreting and leaping about with their raised rumps showing their white scuts. Others, white ones with pale ruby eyes, and black ones with jet eyes, galloped round their hutches with playful grace. Now a scare would make them bolt off swiftly, revealing at every leap their slender reddened paws. Next they would squat down all in a heap, so closely packed that their heads ...

— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola

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