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ITH [C80] JAB ITHANDLY, YTHANLY, ITHINGLIE, adv. 1. [IUE, s. Ivy, Gl. Doug. Virgil.] Busily, diligently ; S. eidentlie. s. An motion of Thus joumait gentiUy thyr chevalrouse knichtis [IULGAR, uneasy, rapid ilk the Ithandly day, waves, Shetl. Isl. volga, a wave.] Throu mony fer contray. Oawan and Ool. i. 18. , [IUNTLY, adv. Exactly. V. JUNTLY.] Ythandly syne he Driuis throw fludia of the stormy se. [IUPERDY, s. Jeopardy. V. JUPERTY.] Doug. Virgil, 321, 17. 2. v. a. and n. To V. Constantly, without interruption. [IUST, joust. JUST.] They said that he, sen yhystirday, s. xix. Duelt in his chambyr ythanly, [TusTYNG," Jousting, Barbour, 520, With a clerk with him anerly. Skeat'sEd.] Barbour, ii. 57, MS. The all Eneadanis of his menze IVIGAR, s. The Sea Urchin. Ithandly and vnirkit luffit haue I. Orbes non Echinus Orcadensibus Doug. Virgil, 479, 22. habens, Marinus, Ivigar. Sibb. Scot., p. 26. So dentit wer hir cheikis cruellie, ' ' The common reckon the meat of the Sea By trimbling teires, distilling ithinglie people or as Out from hir eis Urchin, Ivegars, they call them, a great rari- and use it oft of Maittand Poems, p. 246. ty, instead butter." Wallace's Ork- ney, p. 41. 1. ITHER, adj. Other. The only conjecture I can form, as to thia word, is, that it is a corr. of the old Goth. name. Isl. 2. igull Each other, one another, S. denotes a hedge-hog ; echinus, G. Andr., p. 131. Now, it may have been comp. with liaf, the sea, FRAE ITHER, FAE ITHER, adv. in q. haf-igull, Asunder, like Germ, meer-igel, id. pieces. IVY TOD, Ivy-bush. V. TOD. To, OR TILL, ITHER. To each other, to- gether, S. [IWILL, s. Evil, Barbour, iv. 735.] Corr. from O. S. A.-S. id. uther, other, [IWIS, IWISS, adv. Verily, certainly, Bar- adv. In xvi. 654. A.-S. certain Du. ITINERARLY, an itinerant way, bour, gewis, ; as opposed to being stationary. geivis, certainly.] " he was of Though Bishop the Isles, and died there, s. Island ; His, the Hebrides he had not so much as a or PLYLE, Ilys, yet pot pan there ; and when he went there it or Western Isles, Accts. L. H. waa only itinerarly, but noways Treasurer, animo remanendi." Fountainh. Dec. Suppl., ii. 470. Vol. L, p. 247, 235, 92, Dickson.] J. IT MAT be to observe that which proper J, as pron. To JAB, v. a. To Ettr. For. both in E. and S. is a double is prick sharply, consonant, very nearly allied to SH. The former, it has been differs from said, s. The act of in this the " no variation JAB, pricking way, ibid. latter, by whatever of articulation ; but singly by a certain unnoticed and almost imper- JABART, s. 1. A term to ceptible motion or compression of or near the larynx." applied any Tooke's Div. Purl., i. 93. animal in a debilitated state, S. B. Thus, it corresponds to Germ. sch, Su. -G. Isl. Belg. "Jdbart, a starved horse, and unfit for service ;" Gl. sk. Germ, in the E. indeed writers, giving pron. of/, Surv. Moray. combine ds and sch ; as dschahd, &c. jade, dschah, jaw, " V. Klausing, Engl. Deutsches Worterbuch. The letter 2. It also denotes fish out of season, as a 2 also is allied nearly both to^' and *, being viewed as haddock in ;" ibid. equivalent to ts. January It needs not therefore seem that in the surprising, JABB, s. A kind of net used for catching lapse of ages, j should be substituted for those sounds the of coal-fish. which are admitted as analogous. Of thia change we fry have accordingly, various examples. V. Jag, Jamph, "The best and most expeditious way of catching Jawpe, Jeve, Jink, Joundie. the cuddie, when it is in greater plenty on the coast, is with a sort of creel, called jabb. The jabb commonly s. The a Corvus JA, jay ; bird, Glandarius, consist of three or four strong rods, from 8 to 10 feet Linn. long, laid across each other in the middle, and gently bent The /a him skrippit with a skryke. upwards, till they are fixed at the ends to a large And skornit him as it was lyk. hoop, from four to six feet in diameter, which forms Bannatyne Poems, p. 22, st. 13. its mouth : on the inside it is lined with a narrow net, Fr. geay, gay, jay, Ed. made for the purpose to retain the fish and let out the JAB ! ': i JAD tmter, tied to its riba and mouth." P. tightly Portree, To JACK, v. a. To take off the skin of a Invern. Stat. Ace., xvi. 150. seal, Orkn. [JABB, g. 1. A big, lean, person, " uncomely One party, armed with clubs, fall to knocking them Banffs. oil on the head, and another set to jacking, i.e., cutting the with the blubber on it." Low's 2. A lean animal, well ex- skin, together big-boned, nigh Faun. Oread., 17. p. He hausted, ibid.] Isl. jack-a, obtuso ferro accare ; Haldorson. it as with which he renders v. a. gives synon. hiack-a, [To JABB, To weary, exhaust ; part. feritare, pulsitare ; G. Andr., csedo. pr. jabbin', used also as a a., the act of s. The dimin. of Joan also of exhausting one's strength, Banffs.J JACKIE, ; Jacobine, S. JABBIT, adj. Fatigued, jaded ; Shirr. Gl., S.B. JACK-I'-THE-BUSH, s. Navel-wort, Roxb. V. MAID-IN-THE-MIST. JABBLE, s. Soup, GL Shirr., Aberd. sair'd them first wi' some Meg jabble, kind of To ground their wame. JACK'S ALIVE. A sport. A piece Shirrefs Poems, p. 211. of paper or match is handed round a circle, he takes hold of it "Jack's JABBLE, a. 1. "A large blunt needle," who saying, hand.' in Ayrs., Gl. Picken. alive, he'se no die in my He, " whose hand it dies or is for- 2. A knife," ibid. extinguished, feits a wad ; and all the wads are recovered The term in both senses seems merely a variety of an old sword what is a kind of Shable, rusty ; q. almost entirely only by undergoing penance, useless for the to which it is purpose applied. generally of a mirthful description; Teviotd. JABBLE, s. A slight motion of water, Gall. It might perhaps be a sort of substitute for the E. sport QtJacK-o'-Lent. "Jabble, a slight agitation of the waters of the sea, the small with wind ; irregular waves, and running in " a. A name ; all directions. Gall. Encyl. JACKSTIO, contemptuous equivalent perhaps to Jack-pttdding, Jack [To JABBLE, v. a. 1. To cause agitation of spralt, &c. the sea, as when the wind rises, Clydes. Pedlar, I pity thee a pin'd, To bucket him that beares the bell. 2. To agitate the liquid contents of a dish or be better anes so as to cause Jackstio, engyn'd, vessel, spilling, ibid.] Or I shall flyte against my sell. " Polteart, Watson's Coll., iii 7. JABBLOOH, s. Weak, watery, spirituous Su.-G. tumultuari Isl. in- Gall. V. ttoja signifies ; styyj-r, liquors ;" Encyl. JABBLE, soup. solens. a. The instrument JACDART-STAFFE, JACOB'S LADDER, s. The deadly Night- called a usually Jedburgh-Staff. shade, or Belladona, Ayrs. "Dioxippus the Athenian, that brave fighter, all s. act of being naked, and smered over with oyle, with a JADGERIE, The gauging. " hat of flowers on his head, carrying about his left arme Confermes the to saidis gift made the provest, a red sleeve, and in the hand a batton of right great &c., of Edinburgh of thejadyerie of salmon, herring, and hard greene timber, durst enter in combat against quhyit fische packit and peillit within the kingdoms of Horat Macedonian on his left arme a bucler carrying Scotland." Acts Ja. VI., 1621, Ed. 1814, p. 669. of brasse, and a short m the pike right hand, &jacdart- This is evidently from the v. Jedge, q. v. But I can staffe as we term or like and a sword it, something it, see no reason why our ancestors have substituted j for his by side." Monro's Eiped., P. 1, 84. in all the p. ;/ cognate languages. This veteran gives the word as if it had been com- pounded of ject-er, to throw, and dard, a dart, a a. q. JADIN, The stomach of a sow, Fife ; the javelin. But this be an errat. of the printer for may same with v. Jeddart, which is the common pronunciation of the Jaudie, q. name of the place. V. JEDBURGH-STAFF. I had rather eat Sow's jadin aft* a plotter-plate, JACINCTYNE, a. Hyacinth, a flower. Than uiell wi' him that braiks his word, &c. MS. Poem. laid this Pallas Thay ying, V. PLOTTEK-PLATE. lagging tharon, as semely for to se, As is tne fresche flouris schynand bewty, a. Errat. for Jackal. Newlie pullit up from his stalkis smal, JADRAL, Or than the purpoure floure, hate jacinctyne. "It's a place say they, for ravens to nestle on, for Doug. Virgil, 362, 21. vipers to crawl on, for jadrals, taeds, puddocks an' Fr. jacynthe, from Lat. hyacinth-us, id. Hence also cormorants to jump an' mak their daffin on." Tcn- L. B. jacinthin-us, blue. Jacinthina vestis est aerio nant's Card. Beaton, p. 35. colore rcsplendcns ; Isidor. JADSTANE, a. The common white pebble, s. A E. JACK, privy ; jackes. found on the or in of " sand, beds rivers, He went and was to turn out, obliged into a com- " in " Loth. ; Boil jadstanes butter, the broo mon jack, and purged out all his inwards.