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IBRD
- noun - a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
Inri
- unknown - Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
- crucifix inscription
Inro
- - A small closed receptacle or set of receptacles of hard material, as lacquered wood, iron, bronze, or ivory, used by the Japanese to hold medicines, perfumes, and the like, and carried in the girdle. It is usually secured by a silk cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or knob called a netsuke.
Ivry
- noun - a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne
Jarl
- - A chief; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions.
Jars
- noun - a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
- a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles
- affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience"
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"
- shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
- the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer"
Jerk
- noun - (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration
- a dull stupid fatuous person
- a sudden abrupt pull
- an abrupt spasmodic movement
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked"
- make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion; "his face is twitching"
- meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
- move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions; "The patient's legs were jerkings"
- pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"
- raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms
- throw or toss with a quick motion; "flick a piece of paper across the table"; "jerk his head"
Jird
- noun - gerbil of northern Africa
Jnr.
- - Abbreviation for Junior, used after a name by a son who has the same first and last name as his father; -- less commonly used than Jr.
Jura
- - 1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.
- Scottish island north east of Islay