jeat

jeat

English

Noun

jeat (plural jeats)

1. Obsolete form of jet.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, A Funeral Elegy, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (editors), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5, page 179,

     'T is loss to trust a tomb with such a guest, / Or to confine her in a marble chest, / Alas! what's marble, jeat, or porphyry,

   • 1735, John Barrow, Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digeſted, unnumbered page,

     There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.

   • 1758, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 28, page 10,

     To make a Grey Colour.

     Take iron ſcales, a little criſtal, and ſome ſmall quantity of jeat, grind theſe well together upon a painter's ſtone; the more jeat ye take, the ſadder the colour will be, and likewiſe the more criſtal you put to it the lighter.