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- English Word Jam Definition A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.
- English Word Jamacina Definition Jamaicine.
- English Word Jamadar Definition Same as Jemidar.
- English Word Jamaica Definition One of the West India is islands.
- English Word Jamaican Definition Of or pertaining to Jamaica.
- English Word Jamaican Definition A native or inhabitant of Jamaica.
- English Word Jamaicine Definition An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina.
- English Word Jamb Definition 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.
- English Word Jamb Definition Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
- English Word Jamb Definition See Jam, v. t.
- English Word Jambee Definition A fashionable cane.
- English Word Jambes Definition Alt. of Jambeux
- English Word Jambeux Definition In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees.
- English Word Jambolana Definition A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit.
- English Word Jamdani Definition A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers.
- English Word James's powder Definition Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
- English Word Jamesonite Definition A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.
- English Word Jamestown weed Definition The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.
- English Word Jammed Definition of Jam
- English Word Jamming Definition of Jam