chaetognathan | (adj) of or relating to arrowworms, Syn. chaetognathous |
jonathan | (n) red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw |
bailey | (n) English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742), Syn. Nathaniel Bailey, Nathan Bailey |
bowditch | (n) United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838), Syn. Nathaniel Bowditch |
burns | (n) United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996), Syn. Nathan Birnbaum, George Burns |
currier | (n) United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888), Syn. Nathaniel Currier |
edwards | (n) American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758), Syn. Jonathan Edwards |
hale | (n) a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776), Syn. Nathan Hale |
hawthorne | (n) United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864), Syn. Nathaniel Hawthorne |
jackson | (n) general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863), Syn. Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Thomas J. Jackson, Thomas Jackson |
jawless vertebrate | (n) eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms, Syn. agnathan, jawless fish |
swift | (n) an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745), Syn. Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift |
trumbull | (n) American Revolutionary leader who as governor of Connecticut provided supplies for the Continental Army (1710-1785), Syn. Jonathan Trumbull |