jape 
Thus hath he japed the fill many a yeer. 
Chaucer. Knight's Tale, 1. 871. 
jape (jap), n. [< ME. jape, < OF. jape, jappe, F. 
jui>pe = Pr. jap, jaup; from the verb.] 1. A 
joke; jest; gibe. 
lie ... gan his beste jape* forth to caste, 
And made hire BO to laugh at his folye, 
That she for laughtere wende fur to dye. 
Chaucer, Troilus, II. 1167. 
The roar of merriment around bespoke the by standers 
well pleased with the jape put upon Elm. 
Durham, Inguldsby Legends, I. 136. 
2t. A trick ; wile ; cheat. 
It is no tape, it Is tronth to see. 
Jioin. of ParUnay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 6696. 
Nere myn extprcloun I myghte nat lyren, 
Nor of swich japes wol I nat be shryven. 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 142. 
To make one a japet, to deceive one ; play a trick upon 
one. 
She mado hym fro the dethc escape, 
And he made hir a ful t'aK //"' 
Chaucer, llouse of Fame, I. 414. 
japert (ja'per), . [< ME. japer, < OF. japeur, 
. japprur, a jester, < japer, jest: see jape, tf.j 
A jester; a buffoon. 
After this comth the synne otjaperes, that ben the dev- 
otes apes, for they makcn folk to laughe at hire Japerie, 
as foikes doon at the gawdes of an ape. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
The japers, I apprehend, were the same as the bour- 
dours, or rybauders, an inferior class of minstrels. 
Stnttt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 262. 
japeryt (ja'p6r-i), . [< ME. japerie, < OF. ja- 
perie. japperie, jesting, < japer, jest : see jape, 
v.~] Jesting; joking; raillery; mockery; buf- 
foonery. 
Justinus, which that hated his folye, 
Answerde anon right in his japerie. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, L 412. 
Japetidae (ja-pet'i-de), . pi. [NL., < Janetus, 
Japhetus, a Latinized form of Heb. Japheth, one 
of the three sons of Noah, + -JoVe.] The Indo- 
European or Aryan family of peoples. [Rare.] 
Japhetian (ja-fet'i-an), a. and . [< Japheth 
(seedef.) + -i<m.] I" a. Pertaining to Japheth ; 
Japhetic. 
The prc-scientinc Japhetian theory and the Caucasian 
theory of lilumenbach have long been abandoned. 
Abstract from /. Taylor, Nature, XXXVI. 697. 
II. n. A descendant of Japheth; specifically, 
one of the Milesian colonists of Ireland. 
Japhetic (ja-fet'ik), a. [= Sp. Jafetico, < NL. 
Japheticus, < Japhetus, Japheth.] Pertaining to 
Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; descended, 
or supposed to be descended, from Japheth ; In- 
do-European or Aryan : as, the Japhetic nations. 
Compare Semitic and Hamitic. 
japinglyt, adv. [ME. japyn<jely.~] In a japing 
manner; in joke. 
Demosthenes his hondls onis pntte 
In a wommania bosuni japynyely. 
Occlem. (HoHt'wrfJ.) 
japonica (ja-pon'i-ka), n. [< NL. Japonica, the 
specific name, fern, of Japonictis, of Japan, < 
Japan for Japan : see Japan.'] 1. Camellia Ja- 
ponica. 2. Pyrus (Cydonia) Japonica. 
Japonitet, [< Japan for Japan (see Japan) 
+ -lie 2 .] A Japanese. 
Some mention (beleeue it that list) neere to lapan cer- 
talne Islands of Amazons, with which the /aponttoyearely 
haue both worldly and lleshly trattkiue. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 616. 
jaquima (jak'i-mft), n. [Sp. jdquima; of Ar. 
origin.] A horse's head-stall. [Western U. 8.] 
jar 1 (jar), r. ; pret. and pp. jarred, ppr. jarring. 
[Early mod. E. jar, jarre (besides jur, jurre) ; 
prob. a later form (with sonant j for surd ch : 
cf.Jnw 1 and E. dial, jarme for charm" 2 = chirm, 
churm) of *char, *charre, "chcrrc, now spelled 
chirr and eliurr (cf. night-jar = night-churr, also 
churn-owl, the goatsucker, in reference to its 
cry). < ME. "cherren, 'cherien (not found), < AS. 
eeorian, cerian, murmur, complain, = MJD. Jta- 
rifii, also kocren, koerien, D. korren, coo, = OHO. 
kerren, MHO. Icerren, kirren, G. kirren, coo, 
creak, crunch, = Dan. kurre, coo, = Sw. kurrii, 
rumble, croak. Cf. MHG. gerren, garren, gur- 
ren, coo (also used of other sounds), G. girreri, 
coo; prob. = L. gnrrire, chatter, prattle, talk, 
also croak (as a frog), sing (as a nightingale); 
and Skt. / gar, sound, akin to E. call : see call 1 
and garrmOHt, Words denoting sounds, even if 
not orig. imitative, are subject to imitative va- 
riation. Cf. jarglc and jfiri/ew 1 .] I. intrans. 1. 
To produce a brief rattling or tremulous sound ; 
be discordant in sound. 
Sweeter soundes, of Concorde, peace, and loue, 
Are out of tune, and iarre in i-uery stoppe. 
Oatmiane, Steele (.las (ed. Arber). p. 59. 
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2. To grate on the ear or the feelings ; have a 
jangling or discordant quality; clash. 
On easy numbers fix your happy choice ; 
Qtjarriny sounds avoid the odious noise. 
Drydcn and Soamet, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry, 1. 108. 
A string may Jar in the best master's luiiid. 
lioscommon. 
Start at his awful name, or deem his praise 
A jarring note. Coirper, Task, Ir. 181. 
3. To receive a short, rattling, tremulous mo- 
tion, as from an impulse; shake joltingly. 
The gallery jarred with a quick and heavy tramp. 
A. L. Stevenson, Prince Otto, II. 14. 
4t. To sound or tick in vibrating, as a pendu- 
lum ; hence, to be marked off by regular vibra- 
tions or ticks. 
The bells tolling, the owls shrieking, the toads croak- 
ing, the minutes jarring, and the clock striking twelve. 
Kyd, Spanish Tragedy, iv. 
5. To speak or talk clatteringly or discordant- 
ly; haggle; dispute; quarrel. 
Ye muse somwhat to far, 
All out of joynt ye jar. 
Sketton, Duke of Albany and the Scottes. 
We will not jar about the price. 
Marlowe, Jew of Malta, It 2. 
And then they sit in council what to do. 
And then they jar again what shall be done. 
Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, iv. 2. 
II. trans. 1. To make discordant. 
When once they | bells] jar and check each other, either 
jangling together or striking preposterously, how harsh 
and unpieasing is that noise! 
lip. Hall, Occasional Meditations, 80. 
I alone the beauty mar, 
I alone the music jar. 
WHittier, Andrew Rykman's Prayer. 
2. To impart a short tremulous motion to; 
cause to shake or tremble ; disturb. 
When no mortal motion jars 
The blackness round the tombing sod. 
Tennyson, On a Mourner. 
3. To make rough ; roughen. 
The face of the pollshing-lap is hacked or jarred. 
0. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 838. 
jar 1 - (jar), n. [Early mod. E. jar, jarre (besides 
jur, jurre) (cf. chirr, c/iior 2 , .); from the verb.] 
1. A rattling sound ; a harsh sound; a discord. 
The clash of arguments and jar of words. 
Couyer, Conversation, L 85. 
2. A clashing of interest or opinions; collision; 
discord; debate; conflict: as, family Jars. 
Although there be in their words a manifest shew otjar, 
yet none if we look upon the difference of matter. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 19. 
Yet him whose heart is ill at ease 
Such peaceful solitudes displease ; 
He loves to drown his bosom's jar 
Amid the elemental war. 
Scott, Marmlon, U., Int 
3. A short tremulous motion or vibration, as 
from an impulse ; a sudden shaking or quiver: 
as, to feel the jar of an earthquake, or from 
blasting. 
In r, the tongue Is held stiffly at its whole length, by the 
force of the muscles; so as when the impulse of breath 
strikes upon the end of the tongue, where ft finds passage, 
it shakes and agitates the whole tongue, whereby the 
sound is affected with a trembling jar. 
Holder, Elem. of Speech. 
4f. A clicking or ticking vibration, as of a pen- 
dulum ; a tick. 
I love thee not Ajar o' the clock behind 
What lady, she her lord. Shale., W. T., t 2, 48. 
6. pi. A sliding joint in the boring-rods used 
in rope-drilling. The Jars are like two large flat chain- 
links, and their object is to give the bit a decided jar on 
the up-stroke, so as to loosen it in case it has become 
wedged In the hole. They also form a very important 
member of the drilling-tools, as being the connecting-link 
between the drill and the means of operating it. 
jar 2 (jar), n. [< ME. char, a turn: see ajar 2 .] 
A turn: used separately only in the occasional 
colloquial phrases on a jar, on the jar, usually 
ajar, on the turn ; turned a little way, as a door 
or gate. 
She never absolutely shuts her mouth, but leaves it al- 
ways on a jar, as it were. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, 11.2. 
"I was there," resumed Mrs. Cluppins, "unbeknown to 
Mrs, Bardell ; . . . when I see Mrs. Bardell's street-door 
on the jar." "On the what?" exclaimed the little Judge. 
" Partly open, my Lord," said Serjeant Snubbin. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xxxiv. 
jar 3 (jar), n. [< OF. jare, F. jarre = Pr. jarra, 
guarra = It. giura, giarra, formerly also zara, 
f ., giarro. m., < Sp. Pg. jarra, f., jarro, m.. a jar, 
pitcher, < Ar. jarra, a ewer, a jug with pointed 
bottom, < Pers. jarrah. a jar, earthen water- 
vessel. Cf. Pers. jtirrah, a little cruse or jar.] 
1. An earthen or glass vessel of simple form, 
without handle or spout. In ancient times large 
jargon 
earthenware jars served the purpose of cask* and barrel*. 
See amphttra, doliwn, and pitnos. 
A great Jarre to be shap'd 
Was meant at first ; why, forcing still about 
Thy labouring heele, comes scarce a pitcher outT 
B. Jonvon, tr. of Horace s Art of Poetry. 
Or some frail China jar receive a flaw. 
Pope, R. of the L., II. 108. 
2. The quantity contained in a jar ; the con- 
tents of a jar. 
Sir, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oil. 
Pope, Moral Essays, ill. :, 
Deflagrating jar, a glass-stoppled jar used In the lecture- 
room to exhibit the combustion of certain bodies In gases, 
as, for instance, phosphorus or sulphur in oxygen. See 
deflayratiun. Leyden jar. [After the town where It was 
invented.] In elect., t condenser (which see) consisting, 
In Its common form, of a glass jar lined inside and out 
with tin-foil for about two thirds of Its height. A brass 
rod terminating In a knob connects below with the Inner 
coating, usually by means of a loose chain. The glass sur- 
face above the coatings is usually varnished, for better in- 
sulation. For illustration, txe battery. Unit Jar, a small 
Leyden jar furnished with two knobs (one connected to 
each coating), the distance between which can he varied. 
By connecting one knob to the prime conductor of an elec- 
trical machine, and the other to one plate of a condenser 
(the other plate of which is to earth), the relative value of 
different charges can be measured, by counting the num- 
ber of sparks which pass between the knobs during the 
operation of charging. The unit is entirely arbitrary. 
jarble, jarvel (jar'bl, -vel), '. t.; pret. and pp. 
jarbled, jarveled or jarrelled, ppr.jarbling,jar- 
veling or jarvelling. [See javel*.'] To wet; be- 
dew, as by walking in long grass after dew or 
rain. lirockctt. [Prov. Eng.] 
jarde (jiird), n. [F.] In farriery, a callous 
tumor on the leg of a horse, below the bend of 
the ham on the outside. Also Jordan. 
jardiniere (zhar-de-nyar'), n. [F., a flower- 
stand, also a female gardener, a gardener's 
wife, fern, otjardinicr, a gardener: see garden, 
gardener."] 1. A piece of furniture or a vessel 
for the display of -flowers, whether growing or 
cut. (a) A stand upon which flower-pots can be ar- 
ranged. (J) A cache-pot. <<) A vessel, often of fine en- 
ameled pottery or of porcelain, and richly decorated, in 
which flowers are arranged for the decoration of the table. 
2. A kind of lappet, forming part of the head- 
dress of women at the beginning of the eigh- 
teenth century. 
jardon (F. pron. zhar-dM'), n. [F.,< jarde, q. v.] 
Same as jarde. 
jar-fly (jar'fli), ?i. A homopterous insect of the 
family Cicadidte; any harvest-fly or lyerman, 
as Cicada tibicen: so called from the jarring 
sound of their stridulation. 
jarglet (jar'gl), v. i. [< OF. jargouiller, warble, 
chirp, chatter, connected with jargoniier, chat- 
ter, jangle: see jargon 1 . Cf. E. gargle 1 , < OF. 
gargouiller.] To emit or make a harsh or shrill 
sound. 
Jaryles now in yonder bush. 
England's Helicon, p. 46. (Italliu-ell.) 
Her husband's rusty Iron corselet, 
Whose jar/jliny sound might rock her babe to rest 
Bp. Hall, Satires, Iv. 4. 
jargoglet (jar'gog-1), v. t. [Appar. a confused 
extension of jargon 1 ."] To jumble; confuse. 
To jargoyle your thoughts. Locke. 
jargon 1 (jar'gon), . [< ME. jargoun, gargonn, 
jargon, jergon, chattering, < OF. jargon, gergon, 
F. jargon, gibberish, peddlers' French, orig. 
' chattering,' = It. gergo, gergone, jargon (cf. 
Sp. gerigonza = Pg. geringonca, jargon), > OF. 
(also V.)jargonner, chatter as birds, later speak 
gibberish, jangle, chatter, babble confusedly 
(cf. Sp. gerigon;ar, speak a jargon); perhaps 
a reduced reduplication of the root appearing 
in L. garrire, chatter, prattle, talk, croak (as a 
frog), sing (as a nightingale), etc. : see jar 1 and 
garrulous."] 1. Confused, unintelligible talk; 
irregular, formless speech or language; gabble; 
gibberish; babble. 
He was al coltissh. ful of ragerye, 
And ful at jargon as a flekked pye. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 604. 
What more exquisite jargon could the wit of man invent 
than this definition? "The act of a being In power, as 
far forth as In power." 
Locke, Human Understanding, III. iv. 8. 
Specifically 2. A barbarous mixed speech, 
without literary monuments; a rude language 
resulting from the mixture of two or more dis- 
cordant languages, especially of a cultivated 
language with a barbarous one : as, the Chinook 
jargon; the jargon called Pidgin-English. 
For my own part, besides the jargon and patois of sev- 
eral provinces, I understand no less than six languages. 
Sir T. Bromu, Eeligio Medici, U. a 
3. Any phraseology peculiar to a sect, profes- 
sion, trade, art, or science ; professional slang 
or cant. 
