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Jet \Jet\, n.
Same as 2d {Get}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates,
fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in
Lycia.] [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}.
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{Jet ant} (Zool.), a blackish European ant ({Formica
fuliginosa}), which builds its nest of a paperlike
material in the trunks of trees.
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Jet \Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a
throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. {Abject}, {Ejaculate},
{Gist}, {Jess}, {Jut}.]
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1. 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.
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2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
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3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type
is cold. --Knight.
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{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.
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Jet \Jet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jetted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Jetting}.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw.
See 3d {Jet}, and cf. {Jut}.]
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1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be
insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.]
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he jets under his advanced plumes! --Shak.
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To jet upon a prince's right. --Shak.
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2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
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3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
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Jet \Jet\, v. t.
To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
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A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson.
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