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Jack⋅son

[jak-suhn]
–noun
1. Andrew (“Old Hickory”), 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
2. Lady Barbara. Ward, Barbara.
3. Helen Hunt (Helen Maria Fiske), 1830–85, U.S. novelist and poet.
4. Jesse L(ouis), born 1941, U.S. Baptist minister and civil-rights and political activist.
5. Joseph Jefferson (“Shoeless Joe”), 1887–1951, U.S. baseball player.
6. Mahalia, 1911–72, U.S. gospel singer.
7. Robert Hough⋅wout [hou-uht] , 1892–1954, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1941–54.
8. Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall Jackson”), 1824–63, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
9. a city in and the capital of Mississippi, in the central part. 202,895.
10. a city in W Tennessee. 49,131.
11. a city in S Michigan. 39,739.
12. a town in NW Wyoming: resort near Jackson Hole. 4511.
13. a male given name, meaning “son of Jack.”
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Jackson Jack·son (jāk'sən), John Hughlings. 1835-1911.

British neurologist whose connection of certain epileptic symptoms to specific locations in the brain advanced the understanding of epilepsy.

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