jingle 
Cf. tink, tinkle, ring 2 , G. klingeln, jingle, i 
imitative words.] I. intrans. 1. To emit 
etc. ; 
emit tin- 
kling metallic sounds ; tinkle or clink, as bells, 
coins, chains, spurs, keys, or other metallic ob- 
jects. 
And whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere 
Qynglen in a whistlyng wynd aa cleere, 
And eek as lowde as doth the chapel belle. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 170. 
With strange and several noises 
Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains, 
And wide diversity of sounds, all horrible, 
We were awaked. Shak. , Tempest, v. 1, 233. 
2. To have a musical sound, or a light pleas- 
ing effect upon the ear, independently of sense, 
as verse or rimes. 
In sounds and jingling syllables grown old. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 605. 
Nurses sing children to sleep with & jingling ballad. 
Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 
To Jingle Off, to come oft ; fall down with a jingling noise. 
Macadam's stable-slates jingling o/lrom time to time. 
Carlyle, in Froude. 
II. traits. To cause to give a tinkling metal- 
lic sound, as a little bell or as pieces of metal. 
Their musick-lesse instruments are fans of brasse, hung 
about with rings, which they gingle in stops according to 
their marchings. Sandys, Travailes, p. 134. 
The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. 
Pope, E. of the L., v. 94. 
jingle (jing'gl), n. [Formerly also gingle; < 
jingle,.] 1. A tinkling or clinking sound, as 
of fittle bells or pieces of metal. 
We. . . seem still to catch the jingle of the golden spurs 
of the bishops in the streets of Cologne. 
Summer, Orations, I. 63. 
2. Something that jingles ; a little bell or rat- 
tle ; specifically, one of the little metallic disks 
set in the frame of a tambourine. 
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain 
them with trifies and cringles, but use them justly. 
Bacon, Plantations (ed. 1887). 
3. Musical or sprightly sound in verse or 
rimes ; poetry or a poem having a musical or 
sprightly sound, with little sense; a catching 
array of words, whether verse or prose. 
This remark may serve, at least, to show how apt even 
the best writers are to amuse themselves and to impose on 
others by a mere gingle of words. 
Bolingbroke, Fragments of Essays, No. 58. 
Dear Mat Prior's easy jingle. 
Cowper, Epistle to Robert Lloyd. 
4. A covered two-wheeled car used in the 
south of Ireland. 
An elderly man was driven up to the door of the hotel 
on a one-horse car a jingle, as such conveniences were 
then called in the South of Ireland. 
Trollope, Castle Richmond, vi. 
5. A mollusk of the genus Anomia, [Long 
Island Sound.] 
A more fragile shell, such as a scallop, mussel, or jingle 
(Anomia), is certainly better, because the growth of the 
attached oysters wrenches the shell to pieces, breaking 
up the cluster and permitting the singleness and full de- 
velopemeut to each oyster that is so desirable. 
Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 543. 
jingle-boxt (jing'gl-boks), . A black-jack 
mounted with silver or other metal, with small 
bells or grelots attached to the rim. It was a 
test of sobriety to drink from the vessel with- 
out sounding the bells. 
jingle-boyt (jing'gl-boi), . A coin. 
Ang. You are hid in gold o'er head and ears. 
Hir. We thank our fates, the sign of the gingle-boys 
hangs at the door of our pockets. 
Massinger, Virgin Martyr, ii. 3. 
jingle-jangle (jing'gl-jang"gl), n. [A varied 
redupf. of jingle; cf. jimjam.] If. A trinket; 
anything that jingles. 
For I was told ere I came from home 
You're the goodliest man I ere saw beforne ; 
With so many jinglejangles about one's necke 
As is about yours, I never saw none. 
The King and a Poore Northerns Man. (JlattiweU.) 
2. A jingling sound. 
The jingle-jangle of . . . dissonant bells. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, p. 50. 
j ingler ( jing'gler), n. 1 . One who or that which 
jingles ; in the quotation, a kind of spur. 
I had spurs of mine own before, but they were not 
ginglen. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 2. 
2. The whistlewing or golden-eyed duck. G. 
Trumbull, 1888. [New Jersey.] " 
jinglest, n. A corruption of shingles (St. An- 
thony's fire). See shingles. 
jingle-shell (jing'gl-shel), . Same as gold- 
shell, 2. 
jinglet (jing'glet), n. [< jingle + -et.J A loose 
metal ball serving for the clapper of a sleigh- 
bell ; also, the bell itself. 
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The making of sleigh-bells is quite an art. ... The 
little iron ball is called "the jinglet." 
The American, IX. 350. 
jingo (jiug'go), n. and a. [A name used in the 
oath "by jingo," where jingo is prob. a form, 
introduced perhaps by gipsies or soldiers, of 
the Basque Jinkoa, Jainkoa, Jeinkoa, contracted 
forms of Jaungoicoa, Jangoikoa, God, lit. ' the 
lord of the high.'] I. n. 1. A name used in the 
oath "by jingo," sometimes extended to "by 
the living jingo": as, I won't do it, by jingo. 
[Colloq.] 
By jingo, there's not a pond or a slough within five miles 
of the place but they can tell the taste of. 
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, v. 
Jumping up in his boat 
And discarding his coat, 
"Here goes," cried Sir Rupert, "by jingo I'll follow her !" 
Barham, Ingoldsby legends, II. 35. 
2. [cap.'] A member of a section of the Con- 
servative or Tory party in Great Britain which 
advocated a spirited foreign policy. Especially 
used during the Beaconsfleld (Disraeli) administration of 
1874-80, in reference to the Russo-Turkish war, etc. The 
name alludes to a song at that time popular, expressing 
the Jingo spirit : 
"We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do, 
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the 
money, too." 
When Lord Beaconsfleld courted the cheers of the City 
by threatening the Emperor of Russia with three cam- 
paigns, he was acting the part of a genuine Jingo. 
The Spectator, No. 2821, July 22, 1882. 
[In this sense it takes the plural Jingoes.] 
II. a. [cap.] Belonging or relating to the 
Jingoes: as, the Jingo policy; Jingo bluster. 
See I., 2. 
Suchastate of mind is neither wonderful norunreason- 
able ; it is unintelligible only to those who are themselves 
so possessed with the Jingo swagger that they cannot un- 
derstand that other people may be without it. 
E. A. Freeman, Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 328. 
Jingoism (jing'go-izm), . [< Jingo + -ism.] 
The spirit, policy, or political views of the 
Jingoes. 
He [Beaconsfleldl always ridiculed the predominance on 
the Conservative side of the doctrine of the integrity and 
independence of the Turkish Empire ; and, in short, he 
thought that in the days of Jingoism the English Conser- 
vative party had gone mad. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLI. 340. 
jink 1 (jingk), v. [Also jenk; origin obscure. 
Hardly a nasalized form of jig, though some 
senses suggest such a connection.] I. intrans. 
1. To move nimbly. [Scotch.] 
Hale be your heart, hale be your fiddle ; 
Lang may your elbockyinA: an' diddle. 
Burns, Second Ep. to Davie. 
2. To make a quick turn; dodge ; elude a per- 
son by dodging ; escape. [Scotch.] 
The more o' that poison o' yours I take your iodides 
and salicine and stuff the worse it gets; and then ye 
jink round the corner and call it by another name. 
W. Black, Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 381. 
3. In the card-games of spoil-five and forty-five, 
to win the game by winning all the tricks in one 
hand To Jink In, to enter a place suddenly, unexpect- 
edly, and clandestinely. [Scotch.] 
Could not ye have let us ken an ye had wussed till hae 
been present at the ceremony? My lord couldna tak' it 
weel your coming and jinking in, in that fashion. 
Scott, Antiquary, rxv. 
U. trans. 1. To elude; dodge. [Scotch.] 
There the herds can jink the show'rs 
'Mang thriving vines an' myrtle bow'rs. 
Ferguwon, Hume Content. 
2. To cheat; trick. [Scotch.] 
For Jove AiAjink Arcesius; 
The gentles a' ken roun' about 
He was my lucky-deddy. 
Poems in Buchan Dialect, .Speech of Ulysses. 
jink 1 (jingk), n. [< jink 1 , v.] 1 . A quick illusory 
turn; the act of eluding another. [Scotch.] 
2. In the card-games of spoil-five and forty-five, 
the winning of all the tricks in a hand by one 
sideHigh Jinks. See high. 
jink 2 (jingk), v. i. [Avar, of chink?.] To jingle; 
chink: as, the money jinked. [Prov. Eng.] 
jinker (jing'ker), n. One who moves about or 
dodges quickly ; one who is nimble and spor- 
tive. [Scotch.] 
That day ye was a jinker noble, 
For heels an' win' ! 
Burns, Auld Farmer's Salutation to his Auld Mare. 
jink-game (jingk'gam), re. A game of spoil-five 
or forty-five in which a side taking all the tricks 
in one hand wins the game. Jinking in either game 
is permissible only if agreed on at the outset of the play. 
In spoil-five the player must announce that he plays for a 
f jink ; in forty-five no announcement is necessary. 
jinn (jin), re. pi. ; sing, jinnee (jin'e). [Also djinn, 
(jinn; = Pers. jinn, Hind, jin, sing., < Ar. jinn, 
pl.,jinniy, sing., a kind of demon: see def. The 
Joannesia 
sing.jinmy occurs in E. spelling jinnee, and is 
also frequently represented by the accidentally 
similar genie 1 (F. genie) or genius, < L. genius, a 
different word: see genius.] In Mohammedan 
myth., a class of spirits lower than the angels, 
made of fire, capable of appearing in both hu- 
man and animal forms, and exercising super- 
natural influence over mankind, for both good 
and evil. In the current translation of the "Arabian 
Nights' Entertainments " they are called genii. The word 
in this form is often treated as a singular, with a plural 
jinns. 
The Jinn are said to appear to mankind most common- 
ly in the shapes of serpents, dogs, cats, or human beings. 
In the last case, they are sometimes of the stature of men, 
and sometimes of a size enormously gigantic. If good, 
they are generally resplendently handsome ; if evil, hor- 
ribly hideous. Arabian Nights (ed. Lane), Int., note 21. 
Moslem divines, be it observed, ascribe to Mohammed 
miraculous authority over animals, vegetables, and min- 
erals, as well as over men, angels, and/inna, 
R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 262. 
= Syn. Elf, Gnome, etc. See fairy. 
jinnee, . See jinn. Also spelled djinnee. 
jinny (jin'i), n. ; pi. jinnies (-iz). [A var. of 
jenny.] 1. A bird, the turnstone, Strepsilas in- 
terpres. G. Trumbull. [Long Island.] 2. In 
coal-mining, same as jig, 6 (6). [Local, Eng.] 
jinrikisha (jin-rik'i-sha), . [Jap.; < jin, a 
man, + riki, strength, power, + alia, carriage.] 
A small two-wheeled, hooded conveyance pro- 
Jinrikibtm. 
vided with springs and drawn by one or more 
men. It is used extensively in Japan, and is said to have 
been invented by an American missionary. Also spelled 
jinrilcsha and jinricksha, 
Directly we landed at the jetty, we were rushed at by a 
crowd otjinnkwha men, each drawing a little vehicle not 
unlike a Hansom cab, without the seat for the driver 
there being no horse to drive. 
Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xviii. 
jinshang (jin'shang), re. A corruption of gin- 
seng. [U. S.] 
jippot, Same as j ippo-coat . 
Plush Jippoes and Hose behang'd before. 
Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 29. 
jippo-coatt (jip'6-kot), n. An outer garment for 
a man, mentioned in 1660. 
jirkin, n. See jerkin 1 . 
jirkinet, n. Seejerkinet. 
Jist. See Gis. 
jitty (jit'i), n; pl.jitties (-iz). [Prob. a var. of 
jetty 1 .] In coal-mining, a short slit or heading 
along which the empties, horses, or men travel. 
[Leicestershire, Eng.] 
jivest, n. pi. An obsolete spelling of gyves. 
So now my jives are off. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, Iv. 8. 
jpi n. Seej'oe 3 . 
Jo2, n. In conch. See 7o 2 , 3. 
Joachimite (jo'a-kim-it), n. [< Joachim (see 
def.) + -ite 2 .] A follower or believer in the 
doctrines of an Italian mystic, Joachim (died 
about 1200), abbot of Floris. The most important 
feature of his doctrines was the belief that the history of 
man will be covered by three reigns : the first, that of the 
Father, from the creation till the birth of Christ ; the sec- 
ond, that of the Son, from the birth of Christ till 1260 ; and 
the third, that of the Holy Spirit, from 1260 onward. This 
last view was developed by his adherents into the belief 
that a new gospel would supersede the revelation of the 
Old and New Testaments. These views had many sup- 
porters in the thirteenth century. 
joant (Jon), n. [< Joan, < ME. Joan, Jone, a 
woman's name, another form of Jean, Jane, < 
ML. Joanna, fern, of LL. Joannes, John : see 
John. ] A woman's close cap, worn in the latter 
part of the eighteenth century. 
Joannes, n. See Johannes. 
Joannesia (jo-a-ne'si-a), n. [NL. (Velloso, 
1798), irreg. < Johannes, John : see John.] A 
genus of plants of the natural order Euphorbi- 
aceai, containing a single species, J. princeps, a 
handsome Brazilian tree. It is closely allied to Ja- 
tmpha, but the leaves have 5 leaflets. The calyx is nearly 
valvate, and the fruit is a drupe, containing a 2-celled nnd 
2-seeded nut. The bark affords a milky juice reputed to 
be poisonous nnd said to be used for stupefying fish. The 
seeds are actively purgative, and furnish the oil of anda. 
