jeat

plural jeats

1. obsoleteObsolete form of jet.

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

   1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume II (I–S), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC

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   '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,

   a. 1631, John Donne, “A Funeral Elegy”, in Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, editors, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 5, published 1810, page 179

   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.

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