*jen*

n. (Min.) See Yenite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper. [ Colloq. Eng. & U.S. ] G. W. Curtis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. genet, Sp. jinete, orig., a mounted soldier, Ar. zenāta a tribe of Barbary celebrated for its cavalry. ] A small Spanish horse; a genet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. a dim. of Jean John, so named as becoming ripe about St. John's day, June 24. F. Jean is fr. L. Johannes. See Zany. ] A variety of early apple. See Juneating. [ Written also geniting. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Jennies [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A familiar name of the European wren. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jenny ass (Zool.), a female ass; also, a female of certain other animals. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ A corruption of gin an engine; influenced by Jenny, the proper name. See Gin an engine, and cf. Ginny-carriage. ] A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories. Also called spinning jenny. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A fish of the genus Leuciscus; the blue chub of the Danube. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Mule, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Pear, and Jenneting. ] A kind of pear. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]