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The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.
See Jamestown weed.
Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
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A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
a.
Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England.
n.
Same as Jamesonite.
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A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.
a.
Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
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A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
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A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
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A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.
v. t.
To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.
n.
One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.
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Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
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A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia.
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Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton.
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Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, //155, 199-202.
n.
An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.
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The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law.
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A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.
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