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Java|ˈdʒɑːvə|
a. The name of a large island in the Malay archipelago. Used attrib. in the names of things connected with it in origin, as Java almond, Canarium commune (Miller Plant-n. 1884); Java ape-man = Java man (below); Java canvas, a loosely-woven linen cloth with an even mesh used in embroidery; Java man, the fossil hominid, Homo erectus (formerly Pithecanthropus erectus) whose remains were first found by E. Dubois in Java in 1891; cf. pithecanthrope b; Java plum, Eugenia Jambolana: see jambo b; Java sparrow, a kind of Weaver-bird (Amadina oryzivora). Also ellipt., Java, a variety of domestic fowl.
1931Stubbs & Bligh Sixty Centuries Health & Physick 3 Pithecanthropus, the Java ape-man.
1872Omen 26 Oct. 342/2 Antimacassar (Java canvas). 1878Cassell's Family Mag. 494/2 The materials used for these curtains are many—velvet,.., Java canvass,..and serges. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 278/1 Java canvas, a close make of canvas, having an appearance of being plaited, and made in many sizes and degrees of fineness. Ibid., Java canvas work, this Embroidery is named from the material upon which it is worked and is used for mats, work cases, music cases. 1932D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 246 Two 4{pp}squares of Java canvas.
[1896E. Dubois in Nature 16 Jan. 247/1, I could find no place for the fossil Javanese form, which I consider as intermediate between Man and the Anthropoid apes.] 1911A. Keith Anc. Types of Man xiv. 136 One is compelled to believe that the human brain had attained a greater size than that of the Java man at the end of the Pliocene Period. 1945Anthropol. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XL. 62/2 Considering..the complexity of the problem of Java man..I deem it best to put aside the Sangiran Mandible of 1939 for the present. 1965M. H. Day Guide to Fossil Man 224 The features of this femur..suggest strongly that Java man was capable of standing and walking erectly.
1842Java plum [see jaman]. 1861Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 82 The Java sparrows are chiefly in demand for the aviaries of the rich in town and country. 1893Newton Dict. Birds, Java Sparrow, one of the best known of exotic cage-birds, Padda or Munia oryzivora,..family Ploceidæ.
b. ellipt. Coffee from Java; also (slang) any sort of coffee.
1850L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah xiii. 169 Partaking of the nectar-like Java. 1926J. Black You can't Win vi. 67 We went back to the fire and discussed breakfast. ‘Nothing but Java,’ said the bum that had the coffee. 1945G. Millar Maquis ii. 29 Later on, to wake you up a bit.., we'll give you a nice cup of Java, strong and hot. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xxv. 235 Lots a guys come in for chatter and java, friend. |