jactus (noun M) : jacio
* A throwing, casting, hurling; a throw, cast.
* Lit.
* In gen.: jactus fulminum,Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 18; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 104: haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt,Verg. G. 4, 87: glebarum et testarum,Quint. 8, 2, 5: intra jactum teli progressus,Verg. A. 11, 608: teli jactu abesse,to be a spear's-throw distant,Liv. 8, 7 init.: usque ad jactum tali,Tac. A. 13, 40; Curt. 3, 11, 1: truces in sublime jactus (of the bull),Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 4.
* Trop., a throwing out, uttering: fortuitus jactus vocis,an assertion casually thrown out,Val. Max. 1, 5, 9.
* Transf.
* A throwing out, spreading: jactus radiorum,Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116.
* A throwing down or out, throwing overboard: jactum mercium facere levandae navis causā,a jettison,Dig. 14, 2, 1 sq.: facere jactum medio in ponto,Sen. Troad. 1037: horribilis de saxo jactu' deorsum,Lucr. 3, 1016; Verg. G. 4, 528.—Absol.: decidere jactu cum ventis,Juv. 12, 33; Paul. Sent. 2, 7.
* A cast (of the net), a haul, draught: jactum retis emere,Dig. 19, 1, 11, § 18; Val. Max. 4, 1, 7 ext.—*

jactus, a, um, Part., from jacio.