Jet , v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models jetted
steam.
Tennyson.
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.]
1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.]
he jets under his advanced
plumes!
Shak. To
jet upon a prince's right.
Shak.
2. To jerk; to jolt;
to be shaken. [Obs.] Wiseman.
3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
Jet , n. [F. jet, OF.
get, giet, L.
jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate, Gist,
Jess, Jut.]
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. Knight.
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.
Jet , n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. jaïet, 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.
Jet ant (Zoöl.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa),
which builds its nest of a
paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
Jet (?), n. Same as 2d Get. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
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