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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A short strap fastened around the leg of a hawk or other bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.
  2. v. To put jesses or a jess on (a hawk, for example).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A short strap, usually of leather, sometimes of silk or other material, fastened about the leg of a hawk used in falconry, and continually worn. The leash, when used, is secured to this. But the term jess must be taken to include a short thong with a ring at the end, which is rather the leash and varvel of actual falconry than the jess proper. This is the heraldic use of the term. See cut under á-la-cuisse.
  2. n. A ribbon that hangs down from a garland or crown in falconry.
  3. To secure with jesses; place the jesses on.

Wiktionary

  1. n. falconry A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.
  2. v. falconry To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk.
  3. n. A compact coal-like, velvet-black mineral, with a polish making it fit for use in jewelry.
  4. n. A very dark, velvety black shade.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of falcon.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Middle French jaiet, from Latin gagates 'throw', from Gagas (a town and river in Asia Minor). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English ges, from Old French, pl. of jet, something thrown, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, alteration of Latin iactus, past participle of iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bess
  2. Es
  3. Etess
  4. Fs
  5. Hess
  6. Hesse
  7. Ins
  8. Les
  9. Ness
  10. S
  11. S.
  12. Tess
  13. Wes
  14. abs
  15. acquiesce
  16. address
  17. aggress
  1. assess
  2. attests
  3. bless
  4. caress
  5. ches
  6. chess
  7. coalesce
  8. compress
  9. confess
  10. contests
  11. convalesce
  12. cress
  13. depress
  14. digests
  15. digress
  16. dispossess
  17. distress
  1. dress
  2. egress
  3. ers
  4. es
  5. ess
  6. excess
  7. express
  8. fess
  9. finesse
  10. fluoresce
  11. gess
  12. guess
  13. impress
  14. ins
  15. kess
  16. largesse
  17. las
  1. les
  2. less
  3. mess
  4. ness
  5. nevertheless
  6. noblesse
  7. nonetheless
  8. obsess
  9. oppress
  10. pos
  11. possess
  12. press
  13. profess
  14. progress
  15. protests
  16. reassess
  17. recess
  1. redress
  2. regress
  3. reinvests
  4. repossess
  5. repress
  6. requests
  7. s
  8. s.
  9. simplesse
  10. stress
  11. success
  12. suppress
  13. transgress
  14. tress
  15. undress
  16. unless
  17. us
  1. vs
  2. yes

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  • delcj a thin strap, traditionally made from leather, used to tether a hawk or falcon Aug 21, 2007

  • brtom Wrist through the braided jess of her sunshade.
    Joyce, Ulysses, 3 Dec 29, 2006

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