Noun

(en noun)

* , 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 Dige?ted , unnumbered page,

There is also a factitious jeat' made of gla?s, in imitation of the mineral ' jeat .

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

*:: To make a Grey Colour.

Take iron ?cales, a little cri?tal, and ?ome ?mall quantity of jeat', grind the?e well together upon a painter's ?tone; the more ' jeat ye take, the ?adder the colour will be, and likewi?e the more cri?tal you put to it the lighter.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) jest

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=William Allan Nielson, title=The Facts About Shakespeare, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Plume adds, "Sir John Mennes saw once his old father in his shop--a merry cheeked old man that said, 'Will was a good honest fellow, but he darest have crackt a jeast with him at any time.'" }}

*{{quote-book, year=1885, author=T. H., title=The History of Sir Richard Whittington, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=And after, at a feast, Which he the king did make, He burnt the bonds all in jeast , And would no money take. }}