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JACINI, STEFANO, COUNT (1827-1891) , Italian statesman and economist, was descended from an old and wealthy Lombard family. He studied in Switzerland, at Milan , and in German universities. During the period of the Austrian restoration in Lombardy (1849-1859) he devoted himself to literary and economic studies. For his work
Milan , 1856) he received a prize from the Milanese Societd d'incoraggiamento di scienze e lettere and was made a member of the Istituto Lombardo. In another work
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L. Carpi's Risorgimento italiano, vol. iv. (Milan, 1888), contains a short sketch of Jacini's life. yards, and also to various animals, as jackdaw, jack-snipe, jack-rabbit (a species of large prairie- hare
The many applications of the word " jack " to mechanical devices and other objects follow two lines of reference, one to objects somewhat smaller than the ordinary , the other to appliances which take the place of direct manual
ensign . The jack is flown on a staff on the bowsprit of a vessel. In the British navy the jackis a small Union flag. (The Union flag should not be styled a Union Jack except when it is flown as a jack.) The jack of other nations is usually the canton of the ensign , as in the German and the United States navies, or else is a smaller form of the national ensign, as in France. (See FLAG.)The more common use of " jack " is for various mechanical and other devices originally used as substitutes for men or boys. Thus the origin of the boot-jack and the meat-jack is explained in Isaac Watts's Logic, 1724: " So foot boys, who had frequently the common name of Jack given them, were kept to turn the spit or pull off their masters' boots, but when instruments
harpsichord and virginal, to a framework forming a seat or staging which can be fixed outside a window for cleaning or painting purposes, and to many devices containing a roller or winch, as in a jack towel, a long towel hung on a roller. The principal mechanical application of the word, however, is to a machine for raising weights from below. A jack chain, sc called from its use in meat-jacks, is one in which the links, formed each in a figure of eight, are set in planes at right angles to each other, so that they are seen alternately flat or edgeways.In most European languages the word " jack " in various forms appears for a short upper outer garment, particularly in the shape of a sleeveless (quilted) leather jerkin, sometimes with plates or rings of iron sewn to it. It was the common coat of defence of the infantry of the middle ages. The word in this case is of French origin and was an adaptation of the common name Jacques, as being a garment worn by the common people. In French the word is jaque, and it appears in Italian as giaco, or giacco, in Dutch jak, Swedish jacka and German Jacke, still the ordinary name for a short coat, as is the English jacket, from the diminutive French jaquette. It was probably from some resemblance to the leather coat that the well-known leather vessels for holding liquor or for drinking were known as jacks or black jacks. These drinking vessels, which are often of great
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