Jet /(?)/

Jet

n.
  1. Same as 2d Get. [Obs.]

Jet

n.
  1. 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. (Min.)

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

Jet

n.
  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.
  2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
  3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Phrases & Compounds
Jet propeller
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.

Jet

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Jetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jetting

  1. 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.
  2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.]
  3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

Jet

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