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JACK , a word with a See also: great variety of meanings and applications, all traceable to the See also:common use of the word as a by-name of a See also:man. The question has been much discussed whether " Jack " as a name is an See also:adaptation of Fr. Jacques, i.e. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, from See also:Lat. Jacobus, Gr. 'IfKw(3or, or whether it is a See also:direct pet formation from See also:John, which is its earliest and universal use in See also:English. In the See also:History of the Monastery of St See also:Augustine at See also:Canterbury, 1414, Jack is given as a See also:form of John—Mos est Saxonum . . . verba et nomina transformare . . . . ut . . . See also:pro Johanne Jankin sine Jacke (see E. W. B. See also: Nicholson, The See also:Pedigree of Jack and other Allied Names, 1892). " Jack " was See also:early used as a See also:general See also:term for any man of the common See also:people, especially in See also:combination with the woman's name Jill or Gill, as in the
nursery See also:rhyme. The New English See also:Dictionary quotes from the I See also:College; one at See also:Eton College; and six at the See also:Chelsea See also:Hospital. See also:Coventry Mysteries, 1450: " And I wole kepe the feet this tyde Many specimens are painted with See also:shields of arms, See also:initials and Thow ther come both Iakke and Gylle." See also:Familiar examples of other devices; they are very seldom mounted in See also:silver, though this generic application of the name are Jack or Jack See also:Tar for a See also:spurious specimens with silver medallions of See also:Cromwell and other sailor, which seems to date from the 17th See also:century, and such prominent personages exist. At the end of the 17th century a See also:compound uses as cheap-jack and See also:steeple-jack, or such expres- smaller jack of a different form, like an See also:ordinary drinking mug sions as " jack in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office," " jack of all trades," &c. It is a further with a tapering cylindrical See also:body, often mounted in silver, came See also:extension of this that gives the name to the See also:knave in a See also:pack of into See also:vogue in a limited degree. The See also:black jack is a distinct type of drinking See also:vessel from the See also:leather hotel and the See also:bombard. The jack-See also:boot, the heavy See also:riding boot with See also:long flap covering the See also:knee and See also:part of the thigh, and worn by troopers first during the 17th century, was so called probably from association with the leather jack or See also:jerkin. The jack-boot is still worn by. the See also:Household See also:Cavalry, and the name is applied to a high riding boot reaching to the knee as distinguished from the riding boot with tops, used in full See also:hunting-See also:kit or by grooms or coachmen.
Jack, sometimes spelled jak, is the common name for the See also:fruit of the See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree Artiocarpus integrifolia, found in the See also:East Indies. The word is an adaptation of the Portuguese See also:jaca from the See also:Malay name chakka. (See See also: BREAD FRUIT.)
The word " jackanapes," now used as an opprobrious term for a swaggering See also:person with impertinent ways and affected airs
and See also:graces, has a disputed and curious history. According to the New English Dictionary it first appears in 1450 in reference to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William de la See also:Pole, See also:duke of See also:Suffolk (See also:Political Poems, " Rolls See also:Series," II. 224), " Jack Napys with his clogge hath tiede See also:Talbot oure gentille dogge." Suffolk's badge was a clog and See also:chain, such as was often used for an See also:ape kept in captivity, and he is alluded to (ibid. 222) as " Ape clogge." Jack Napes, Jack o' Napes, Jackanapes, was a common name for a tame ape from the 16th century, and it seems more likely that the word is a fanciful name for a See also:monkey than that it is due to the See also:nickname of Suffolk.
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