jackstraws
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~ a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
Jacob Harmensen
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~ Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)
Jacob
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~ (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')
Jacob Epstein
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~ British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)
Jacob
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~ French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
jacobean
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~ any distinguished personage during the reign of James I
Jacobean
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~ of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers"
Jacobi
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~ German mathematician (1804-1851)
jacobin
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~ a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
Jacobinic
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~ of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism"
Jacobinical
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~ of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism"
Jacobinism
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~ the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror
jacobite
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~ a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts
Jacobs
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~ English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
Jacobs
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~ United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)
Jacobs
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~ Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)
Jacobus Arminius
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~ Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)
jaconet
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~ a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages
Jacquard
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~ a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics
jacquard
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~ a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom