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"-black` (?), a. Black as jet; deep black.

||Jet` d'eau" (?), pl. Jets d'eau (&?;). [F., a throw of water. See Jet

||a shooting forth.] A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe

||(especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public

||place or in a garden, for ornament.

||

||Jet"e*rus (?), n. (Bot.) A yellowness of the parts of plants which

||are normally green; yellows.

||

{ ||Jet"sam (?), ||Jet"son (?), } n. [F. jeter to throw: cf. OF.

getaison a throwing. Cf. Flotsam, Jettison.]

1. (Mar. Law) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under

water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan,

goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.

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