"Jamb" is a word in ENGLISH
See Jam, v. t.
Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following
the lode or vein.
The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace;
hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a
chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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On a drive in the country, a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another."Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about," said the city slicker, "but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?""Time?" said the farmer. "What does time matter to a pig?"
That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.
Read the complete definitionA steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly …
Read the complete definitionIn mining law. The right of the owner of a mining claim duly located on tbe public domain to follow, …
Read the complete definitionThe act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical …
Read the complete definitionA channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate …
Read the complete definitionAny lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical …
Read the complete definitionA sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.
Read the complete definitionThe division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side …
Read the complete definitionAn instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every …
Read the complete definitionHaving one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, …
Read the complete definitionIn classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of …
Read the complete definitionA little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to …
Read the complete definitionA fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more …
Read the complete definitionA form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
Read the complete definitionAn old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.
Read the complete definitionA horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is …
Read the complete definitionThe spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
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