Advertisement

Advertisement

jess

1

[ jes ]

noun

  1. a short strap fastened around the leg of a hawk and attached to the leash.


verb (used with object)

  1. to put jesses on (a hawk).

Jess

2

[ jes ]

noun

  1. a male or female given name, form of Jesse, Jessie, or Jessica.

jess

/ dʒɛs /

noun

  1. a short leather strap, one end of which is permanently attached to the leg of a hawk or falcon while the other can be attached to a leash
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to put jesses on (a hawk or falcon)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

Derived Forms

  • jessed, adjective
Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of jess1

1300–50; Middle English ges < Old French ges, gez, getz (nominative) ( get oblique > French jet; jet 1 ) ≪ Latin jactus a throwing, equivalent to jac ( ere ) to throw + -tus suffix of v. action
Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of jess1

C14: from Old French ges, from Latin jactus a throw, from jacere to throw
Discover More

Example Sentences

If Jess does respond and the thread continues without you keeping track, you may get lost and end up sending an unnecessary followup email.

If you have a lot of tasks and leave yourself a reminder to “follow up if Jess doesn’t respond,” for the next week, there’s nothing on the thread itself that indicates exactly when you linked it to a task.

To see her go that way, cut off and alone, no hugs or kisses, has left a hole, for her and Jess both.

Short resolved to find a place closer to where she and Jess lived.

Previously managing editor, Europe for Digiday, Jess returns to us in a different role and focus — she formerly covered media, programmatic and data privacy.

From Digiday

But she surprised the test pilots—there were three, the chief test pilot Jack Waddell, Wygle and Jess Wallick.

“The progressive movement knows how critical adding more Democratic women to our government is,” said spokeswoman Jess McIntosh.

I met Ned 10 years ago when we were all living together—him, Jess, and I—out in L.A., and Ned had been writing this.

Chastain: No, but Jess [Weixler] told me you had some wild night out with dancing?

You were also on a great episode of New Girl where the gang plays “True American” and Nick and Jess kiss.

Jess had been used to these unpleasant occasions ever since she was a very little girl.

But, as Jess had told her mother, that blue party dress had become impossible.

Just then Jess was aroused from her brown 15 study by hearing somebody calling breathlessly after her.

But to herself Jess Morse thought: And it would mean the difference, for mother and me, between penury and independence!

Thank you, Griff, Jess heard herself saying to the younger Vandergriff, as he packed her modest order in the basket.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


Jespersenjessamine