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! --Shak.
To jet upon a prince's right. --Shak.
2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.]
3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
Jet, v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson.
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.
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.
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.
adj : of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
[syn: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty]
n 1: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: jet
plane, jet-propelled plane]
2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn: squirt,
3: a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish
and is used in jewellery or ornamentation
4: street names for ketamine [syn: K, super acid, special
K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]
5: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain]
v 1: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth;
"Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the
building" [syn: gush]
2: fly a jet plane
[also: jetting, jetted]