Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of throwing, as missile weapons.
- noun Agitation of the body from restlessness or for exercise; the exercise of riding in some kind of vehicle.
- noun Boasting; bragging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tossing orshaking of thebody ; physicalagitation , especially while asleep or confined to bed by ilness;jactitation . - noun The action of throwing.
- noun
Boasting ;bragging ;showing off .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
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-- Fever may be accompanied by pain especially of the the head and loins; a sense of heaviness or general lassitude; deficiency of either secretion, or of all of them; dryness of skin; thirst; nausia; scanty and high colored urine; delirium; constipation; jactation; &c.
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goatboy commented on the word jactation
Restless tossing says it all really
January 24, 2008