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. Walker's will be Prov. ibid. Peden, p. 84. gude;" phrase, JAE [688] JAI

3rd JAES, p. sing. Apparently used in the 2. To move with a sharp jerking jolting motion, sense of jaws, dashes or spirts. V. JAW, v. ibid.] "When it [the elephant] drinks, it sucks up the JAGGIN', part. Used also as a water with its trunk, and then putting the low end [JAGGAN, pr. of the s. the act of or trunk in its mouth, by wynding it in, itjaes in ; jerking jolting, ibid.] the water in its mouth as from a great spout." Law's 1. a Memorialls, p. 177. [JAGGIE, adj. Having jerking motion, ibid.] JAFFLED, part. adj. Jaded, Gall. 2. Full of ruts. V. "Jaffled, fatigued looking, down in body and JAG, s.] clothes." Gall. Encycl. " s. Jack or hunter fashion Apparently synon. with Disjasklt-like. JAG, of boots ; from Teut. feras." Gl. [To JAFFSE, v. n. To make a noise with jagh-en, agitare Sibb. the in Isl. jaws eating ; kiafta, to move the His boots they were made of the jag. jaws.] Ritson's S. Songs, i 271. Isl. whence venatio JAG, s. Fatigue, Aberd. jag-a, venor, insequor ; jagt, ; Gr. Andr., p. 128. For tho' fell drift skips o'er the knap, I am informed that this term still signifies the best Whatrecks, gin I might rax my spaul, part of calf-leather, S. An' spang the braes in spight o' caul'? His boots were of the Ne'er thinkin't onyjag or pingle they made jag, Till I When he went to the was clankit at your ingle. weaponschaw ; the nane durst him Tarras's Poems, p. 26. Upon green brag, The ne'er a ane aiming them a'. Isl. jag, 1, exercitatio; 2, venatio; evidently expres- Song, Willie was a Wanton Wag. sive of the fatigue proceeding from the exertions of the chase. JAG, s. 1. A leather bag or wallet, Perths., Fife. To JAG, v. a. 1. To job, to prick, as with a needle or S. spur, 2. A pocket, Upp. Clydes. He bade her ride, . a And with a spur did jag her side. JAGS, JAUGS, pi. Saddlebags, cloakbag ; Watson's Coll., i. 39. a leathern bag of any kind, Roxb. 2. To as with a dart or pierce ; spear. "'I am thinking ye will be mista'en,' said Meg; ' Some jarris with ane staff to throw black there's nae room for here maun e'en get! jag jakkis. bags orjaugs " ye Doug. Virgil, 239, a. 1. bundle yoursell a bit farther down hill.' St. Ronan, Like a figurative sense of Germ, to make i. 33. jag-en, ' ' " to in the chace is Jag, a or load of kind, Norfolk ; Grose. haste, pursue, especially ; as prick parcel any as well as is allied to used to denote celerity of motion on horseback, from This, Jagget, evidently "jag, a or load of whether on a the means employed, of spurring on the horse ? C. B. parcel any thing, man's back, or in a Norfolk." Grose. gagau, is rendered incisura. But more probably from carriage ; Most the same with Germ, zack, cuspis, which Wachter derives from Sw. probably from origin Jag, s., as a Teut. xtick-a, A.-S. stic-an, pungere, by the common change originally denoting hunting-bag. iagh-en, of venari. st into z, that is, ts ; Germ, zeichmen, to prick. JAG, JAGG, s. 1. A prick with a sharp in- JAGGER, s. A pedlar, Orkn. " ' strument, S. I am ajagger, if it like your ladyship,' replied the uninvited guest, a stout, vulgar, little man, who had 2. Used to denote the effect of metaph. indeed the humble appearance of a pedlar, called^'aj/r/er adversity, S. in these islands." The Pirate, i. 114. The term seems to have been if not "Affliction him a, and let the wind metaphorically, may gie jagg, transferred from Dan. a out o' him, as out o' a cow that's eaten wet clover." ludicrously, iaeger, hunter, from iag-er, Su.-G. and Isl. jag-a, to chase or hunt. Heart of Mid-Lothian, i. 225. The Isl. v., however, simply signifies exercere, in its exerceri assiduo labore. JAGGER, s. A prickle, that which jags, Fife. primary application ; as, jag-az, s. A full sack or JAGGIE, adj. 1. Prickly, ibid. JAGGET, pocket, hanging and at motion, 2. awkwardly, dangling every Sharp-pointed, piercing, that which jobs, S.B. Lanarks. To v. a. to deride Nineteen times on the craigs o' Blair, JAIP, JAPE, To mock, ; Had blum'd the jaggie slae, to speak or act in jest, to play with. Sen a bonny wee bairn, on Beltain morn, Cam todlan' down the brae. Ijape not, for that I say weill I knaw. 34. Lady o' Craignethan, Edin. Mag., July, 1819. Doug. Virgil, 41, Chauc. id. s. 1. violent [JAG, A sharp, shake, Banffs. -Bejaped with a mowe. 2. A rut as that which causes a cart or car- i.e., exposed to derision with a trick. Gower's Conf. ; Am. Fol. a. to shake or 68, riage jolt, ibid.J "Japen, Ludifico, Illudo, Delude." Prompt. Parv. It is strange that Sibb. should view this as a corr. [To JAG, v. a. and n. 1. To jerk, to jolt, to of Teut. yeck-en, deridere, or derive it from Fr. javiol- shake Banffs. violently, er, to gabble or prate. Various terms, both in the Cel- 889 JAM JA* I I

more as fol- tic and Gothic languages, have much affinity ; The term is probably used in this sense, in the to Arm. yoitp, mockery, yoap-rtt, mock, yoap-aer, goap- lowing passage : a mocker whence our a fool, a/i.i, ; perhaps i/aapiis, q. They lufit nocht with ladry, nor with lown, an of or ridicule : Isl. super- town object mockery yeip-a, Nor with trumpours to travel throw the ;

; fatuiivci or vacanea loqnor, fatua profcro :/>, Both [bot] with themself qnhat they wald U-l crak, et frivolae G. and prolocutiones jactahundac ; yapr, fatuus, Umquhyle sadlie, umquhyle jangle ./at. S. P. i. 3. Andr. Germ, yapeii, illudcre, ludiiicari, dccij>erc, sive ''/, fink. K., has that dolose, sive per jocum. Waehtcr observed, Mr. Pink, renders the phrase jnni/le and jnk, "at Saxons adhere to the former and the talked the ancient sense, random." The idea plainly is, They sometimes Isl. to the A.-S. fraudulentus ; Isl. latter; geap, ;/

To JAIRBLE, v. a. To spill any liquid here To JALOUSE, v. a. To suspect. and there on a as children often do table, frae to "I just gat ae bit scrape o' a pen him, say when their Roxb. ; the same at Tannon- taking food, there wad, as yesterday fell, be a packet to the Knock - with Jirble. burgh wi' letters o' great consequence folk for the of our "Jarbled, daggled; North." Grose. winnock ; they jaloused opening letters at Fairport." Antiquary, iii. 324. V. JEALOUSE. JAIRBLES, s. pi. A small portion of liquor, s. 1. A to the aisle left by one who has been often drinking JAM, projection; applied same or other Roxb. of a church. from the glass vessel, ; " commodious Fife. It [the church] has a large jam, very Jirbles, of the Lord's for dispensing the Sacrament Supper, in some of the for want JAIUBLINS, s. pi. Dregs of tea, &c., or spots which, neighbouring parishes, room in the churches, is in the fields." in different ibid. of dispensed of spilt places, viii. 311. any liquid P. Applegirth, Dnmfr. Statist., with J are derived from from Fr. As many words beginning The word is here used improperly ; jambe, this seem allied to others that have Sk or Sell, might a corbel or pier. se an addition Isl. skirp-a, exspuere, ore ejicere ; also, post relinq- A building is often enlarged by carrying with the uere. V. JIRBLE, . out from the back wall, set at right angles rest of the house, the gable of the projection being To v. n. To trifle, to one's time wall of the main This JAK, spend parallel with the side building. a S. idly, S. junk. is styled Back-jam,

VOL. II. P4 JAM [690] JAM

" and He's Schimpf und ernst, jest and earnest. Ihre marks the [2. Anything large clumsy ; as, " affinity of Gr. , to scoff, and ITKWH/UI, a scoff. a o' a hoose." He's bocht biggit jam an this But seems merely apparent ; as the origin un- aul' jam o' a coo," Banffs. V. JUM, and doubtedly is Isl. skam, short. JUMZE.] . For as Su.-G. skemt-a, as well as skymp-a, signifies to play, to sport, analogous to our term in sense 4, the s. or simple idea is, to shorten the time by amusement. JAMB, JAMBE, A projection, wing ; Hence the Su.-G. skaemta fal- the same with v. phrase, tiden, tempus Jam, q. lere ; and simply, jocari, skaemt, jocus ; Isl. skaemt-a, ' ' Thereafter the lower schoole in the south delectamentis jambe tempus fallo, skemtan, delectatio ; skem- was for the appointed Humanity, being somewhat tun, temporis quasi decurtatio; G. Andr., p. 212. (S. than it is now." Craufurd's Univ. Edin r 41. larger" ., p. jamphin): also, skymp-a, ludificari, ekympe, ludificatio, 1625. Tins the received an histrio year also, Colledge skympinn, ludificatorius, illusorius, ; Ibid., p. of fabrick new augmentation the ; having had no 213. V. Observ. on letter /. chambers heretofore, except the 14 old chambers, We have the term, whether in a more primitive form with in 3 others the great lodging, and the 4 chambers or not seems doubtful, in Isl. hymp-a, ludificare, hymp, of Fenton's of old lodging, (which belonged to the Pro- ludibrium; Ibid., p. 113. Isl. gempsne, ludificatio, vost of and the two chambers in the Kirk-a-field), sarcasmus ; G. Audr., p. 86. jamb of the great hall." Ibid., p. 99. It is an obvious illustration of the justness of the ' ' The first of this beginning work contained only the etymon given of this term, notwithstanding the change great lodging where the private schools are, with the of the initial consonants, that Haldorson, under Isl. 14 chambers east the north goeing from iamb thereof." giamm, hilares facetiae, gives Dan. skiaemt as the sy- Ibid., 150. non. term. hilariter et secure p. Giamma, indulgere jocis ; Lex. Island. JAMES RYALL. The name of the silver the not our be traced this By way, might ffempie to ; as a one addicted coin of James VI. of Scotland, vulgarly perhaps primarily denoting wag, to mischievous ? called the Sword Dollar. sport As we have seen that a is radi- " formerly bourd, jest, That thair be ane of silver callit cunyeit penny cally from bohord, behord, a tournament ; we find this the James Rijall, of weicht an unce Troyis-weicht, term, conjoined with that whence jamph is formed. havand on the aue syde ane swerd with ane crown Sidan wart ther skemtan ok behord. the the other upoun same ; on syde thereof the dait Postea lusus erant et torueamenta. of the yeir, with this circumscriptioun, Pro me si Chron. Rhythm., p. 37. mereor in &c. Act. Dom. A. Keith's me," Cone., 1597, S. Syne war ther jamphing and bourds. V. Bohord, Hist., App., p. 150. Ihre. I shall add another passage, illustrative of the sense s. tool for Ettr. JAMPEE, A boring stones, of this word, from a very ancient work. her sua at thinir villa til nkemtunar For.; [jumper, Clydes.] Nu til, laugunautur ganga, edttr dryckiu,fra til skemtanur Isl. skamt-a, dividere. Kongs herbergi, gomjo, tha skallt thu thessa skemtan elska. "If thy comrades wish that thou shouldest to from To v. a. and n. 1. To make go sport, go JAMPH, game the for King's palace thy sport ; and there thou mayest to sneer to S. of, at, mock, amuse thyself as much as thou wilt." Spec. Reg., p. I was bidding Jean e'en gee's a sang, 371. That we amang the laeve might mix our mang : Sham, E. seems radically the same with jamph ; al- But she \nitjamphs me, telling me I'm fu', though Johns, derives it from C. B. shommi, to cheat. And be I'se be be gin't sae, Sir, judg'd you. Gympe, s. used by Doug., and Gymp, v. to which Rudd. Moss's Helenore, p. 117. refers, are merely the same radical words in another form. V. GYMP. . 2. To shuffle, to make false pretences, S. s. A one who makes She pleads a promise, and 'tis very true, JAMPHER, scoffer, sport But he had but & view naitliing jamphing ; at the expense of another, S.; [an idler, But she in gnaping earnest taks it a'. Ross's Helenore, p. 90. Banffs.] O'er faes he, and tumbled down the brae, 3. To act the of a male His and said it was well part jilt. neiper leuch, wair'd ; Let never be better saird. That Nory own afore you a', jamphers yet Ross's 58. That on my side the bargain didna fa'. Helenore, p. for I wadna wish't were Teut. For, my coat, said, schimper, schamper, contumeliosus, derisor ; That I of maidens made a trade. jamphing Isl. skirnpinn, id. V. the . Ross's Helenore, p. 115. s. The act of to JAMPHIXG, jilting ; applied 4. To trifle, to spend that time idly, which a male, S. [The act of idling, Banffs.] ought to be appropriated to work or busi- For Lindy did na look like ane to cheat, ness, S. Or onie lass wi' jamphing sae to treat. Ross's First Edit. 50. High rais't wi' hope, baith late an' air, Helenore, , p. Tvejaumph't to houble at 'er [her]. [Jamphing, Jamphin', used also as an adj. in the 1'icken's 159. Poems, 1788, p. sense of lazy, having a habit of trifling over work, "Spent time idly." Banffs.] To v. a. 1. To tire, to [5. To walk in a slow, idle manner, Baiiffs.] JAMPH, fatigue, to exhaust Ettr. For. This word, a little varied, appears in most of the Ayrs. ; by toil, Northern dialects, and in a variety of forms. Su.-G. It is very frequently used to denote the fatigue akymf-a, beskimp-a, to jeer, to scoff, to taunt, to re- caused by continued motion of a shaking kind, as that verbis Ihre if proach, aliquem dehonestare, ; Belg. schimp- of riding, especially the horse be hard in the seat. en, beschimp-en, Germ, tchimpf-ett, beec/timpf-en, id. One is thus said to be jampliJt with riding. .1 A M [691] JAP

If this bo radically the same with the preceding v., word. Janr/lnry, prating, especially of a malicious it is here used in a very oblique sense. The dilferciice kind, Gower's Couf., Fol. 29, a. Junrjeler, P. Plough- is not greater, however, than between the xynon. v. man. V. JAIPEB. Jank, and the part. Jankit, q. v. To JANK, v. n. 1. To trifle, Loth. synon. 2. To or S. to destroy by jogging friction, jamph. E. chafe, Its known he would have interdited, But he was foro'd with shame to it. 3. To drive to difficulties. quite Jamphlt, part. pa. Now lie's rewarded for such pranks, When lie would it's told he pinched, reduced to straits, Lanarks. pass, janks. CUland's Poems, p. 19. To JAMPH, v. n. To travel with extreme diffi- 2. To jank off, to run off, Loth. culty, as one trudging through mire,Clydes., JANK, s. A trick,'_the act of Ayrs. shuffling giving another the slip. "Jaumph, to travel with exertion aa if on bad roads." Gl. Picken. "His pretending to bring witnesses from the East As we have many instances of Tcut. sch and Goth. Indies, seem'd liker a fair jank than any proper de- into in is fence ; it would have their trial some fk being changed j Scottish words ; this seeing delay'd

allied to delabi ; and in case had once such most probably Teut. schamp-en, labi, ; years they got long respite, "to as half of the is would some other accident would fafl Belg. id., slip aside," footstep they expect " in, lost in a miry road. which might shift off their tryal for ever. Observator, No. 4. Remarks upon Capt. Green's, and John v. n. shuffle in To JAMPHLE, JAMFLE, To Mudder's Speeches, p. 22. it is the v. it is walking, as if in consequence of wearing too Although observed on that synon. with Jamph, the term seems originally the same with Jink, wide shoes, Lanarks. Upp. Jenk, q. v.

v. n. talk S. trifle To JANDER, To foolishly, V. To JANK THE LABOUR. To at work ; a JAUNDER. common in Fife phrase ; whence,

s. A trifler at JANET-FLOWER, . JANK-THE-LABOUR, work, " ibid. Caryophyllata, a janet-flower." Wedderburn's Vocab., p. 18. Supposed to be the Queen's-gilli-flower, s. A on two Hesperis matrouahs, Linn. V. JONETTE. JANKER, long pole, wheels, used for carrying wood, the log being fixed ^ANGEALAR, s, A juggler, a sharper. to it by strong clasps, Loth. The term is opposed to that of honest men. " As njanker (a timber machine) was passing to thame can ask and along Sum gcvis plenyie ; with a log of wood, a fine boy, about five years of age, to thame can Hal t ir and Sum gevis fenyie ; attempted to on the log, but fell, and the hind Sum gevis to men of honestie, get wheel over his and killed him on the And haldis all jangealuris at disdenyie. passed head, Edin. Ev. 1823. Dimbar, Bnnnatyne Poems, p. 49, st. 9. spot." Courant, July 26th, Elsewhere ja.nglov.rs, V. the v. JANKIT, part. adj. Fatigued, jaded, Loth. To JANGIL, JANGLE, v. n. To prattle, to s. idle foolish talker tattle. JANNERER, An ;" Gall. Eucycl. V. JAUNDER, v. "The iargolyne of the suallou gart the iay iangil." Compl. S., p. 60. " " s. Oaten-bread made into * JANNOCK, Jan/jle and jak. V. JAK. Sibb. expl. it, to tattle and trifle away the time." If this be the meaning, it great loaves;" Grose. is from Fr. id. or jangl-er, Jangelyn jaberen. Garulo, This is a Lancashire word, but it occurs in the Blatero. Janydar. Garulator. Garulus. Janrjelinr/e. following passage : Garulacio." Parv. in like manner " Prompt. Palsgr. Mattie gae us baith a drap skimmed milk, and ane expl. "I Jangyll, Je babille, Je and Je cacquette, o' her thick nitjitiinocks, that was as wat an' raw as a jangle;" illustrating it the "She by following phrase ; divot." Rob Roy, ii. 8. taiii/lct/i lyke a iaye." B. iii., F. 265, b. Chaucer uses the word in the same sense. But, as in JANTY, adj. Cheerful, Fife. the passage referred to, both the v. ifI and crak precede, To gar the lazy hours slide by, perhaps this rather signify, to frolic, to amuse may Fell the shearers one's self with some kind of tricks janty jokes try. ; from Fr. jotujl-i r, A. Poems, p. 124. to whence a Douglas's juggle ; jongleur, juggler. Ritson has If to be like that this is a not allied to Su.-G. gant-as, sportive shewn corr. orthography, instead ofjoity- leur in all children, perhaps to elemt-a. V. JAMPH, r. used ancient MSS. The origin, as he ob- serves, is Lat. Diss. on Rom. certainly joculator. and To JAPE, v. a. To mock. V. JAIP. Minstrelsy, E. M. Rom., I. CLIX. s. or trinket JAPE, A toy ; pi. japis. JANGLOUR, s. A prater, a tattler. "Item, twa tuthpikis of gold, with a chenye, a Thair ma na us janglour espy, perle & erepike, a moist ball of gold, ane hert of gold, That is to lufe contrair. with uther small japis." Inventories, A. 1488, p. 5. Bannatyne Poems, p. 101, st. 13. This is most nearly allied to Isl. geip, as used in the Fr. janijlfiir, a a scurrilous saucy prattler, jester. sense of nugae. V. the etymon of JAIP, . This sense approaches so near to that of jongleur, that one would conclude they had been originally the same JAPIX, s. A jerk, a smart stroke, Fife. JAP [C92] JAS

well-known &c. Neill's Hortic. Edin. [To JAPPLE, v. a. To japple clothes, i.e., fruit," Eucycl., p. 211. to stamp upon them in a tub, Shetl.] JARHOLE, JAURHOLE, s. The jawhole, JARBES, JARBIS, s. pi. Prob., a knot in form of a sheaf. Galloway, Ayrs. In Ayrs. I am informed, all the old houses had a "A belt of knottis of and reid curall, peril andjarb' jaurhole, i.e., a hollow perforated stone built into the es of gold, xliii. knottis of Inven- contening peril." wall for carrying off dirty water. Isl. rjari, fissura. tories, A. 1578, p. 264. "Ane belt of knottis of and peril, amatistes, jarltis JARNESS, s. A marshy place, or any place of thrittie knottis of gold betuix, conteniiig nyne peril, so wet as to resemble a Fife. thrittie t wa amatistes and a knop, sevin jarbis of gold marsh, and a clasp." Ibid., A. 1579, p. 288. v. n. To make a harsh and Apparently a knot in form of a sheaf, from Fr. To JARR, grating also a sheaf. noise as jarbe, gerbe, ; same jarg. The brasin duris iarris on the marbill v. a. V. To hyrst. [To JAEBLE, JAIRBLE.] Doug, Virgil, 27, 5. Isl. convitia gam; strepitus, ; Teut. garr-en, To JARG, v. n. 1. To make a shrill gherr- sharp, en, vociferari, clamitare. noise, as a door that moves harshly on its To JARR, v. n. To poke, to stir with a staff hinges. The door jargs, i.e., it creaks. in water. And tho at last with horribill somulis thrist Tliay waryit partis jargaiul on the hirst Sum jarris with ane ged staff to jag throw blak jakkis. Warpit vp bracle. Doug. Virgil, 239, a. 1. 27. Doug. Virgil, 184, Alem. girr-en, Germ, irr-en, turbare, irritare. 2. To flinch; a metaph. borrowed from a door JARTO, s. A term of endearment, Shetl. moving on its hinges. " She could hear the strong voice of the Udaller ' ' such like has he & far more Many heard, reported call, in a tone of some anxiety, 'Tak heed, Jarto,' as in more fearfull form but for all never a ; jarged jot Minna, with an eager look, dropped her bridle." The either from the substance of the or of cause, form pro- Pirate, ii. 324. ceeding therein." "Jarto my dear." Ibid. ' ' All the councell and courts of the were palace It is used also as if it were an adj. filled with and bruits Mr. Andrew " fear, noise, ; [Mel- 'But you forget, Jarto Claud,' said the Udaller, never nor dashed a with ' vill] jarging whitt, magnanim- that the factor was only counting over the money for ous force of & courage, mighty spirit strength my Lord the Chamberlain.'" Ibid., iii. 55. of evidence, of reason & told the language, plainly Dan. min hjerte, my heart ; Corculum, delicium ; King & Councill, that they presumed over boldly in a Baden. constitute estate of a Christian kirk, the kingdom of Jesus Christ." Mr. James Mellvill's MS. Mem., p. JASKIN, s. A person occasionally employed 45. 97. in work to which he has not been is regularly Jarg used, in sense first, Border ; Jirg, more generally in other parts of S. bred, Loth. Sibb. refers to Su. -G-. jerg-a, semper eadem obgannire, worn Banffs. ut solent aniculae iratae. Seren. defines it, eadem ob- [JASKIT, adj. Jaded, out, ; errare chorda vo. This is from Isl. as ; Jargon. jarg-r, same dis-jaskit, q. v.] avida et t'ervida contentio. s. a a Ettr. JASP, A particle ; spot, blemish, JARG, JERG, s. A harsh sound, as grating For. V. JISP. that o a rusty hinge, Ettr. For. "Thilkdor gyit thilk tother whesk, and thilk JASP, s. A " ay jasper. tother Winter 42. jenj. Hogg's Tales, p. This \oiyjasp hes properteis sevin The of collours it is marvellous. To the on one. To a trick on first, play Jarg play Henrysone, Bannatyne Poems, p. 125, st. 1. to make of " one, game one, TJpp. Clydes. Item, ane pair of tabillis of silvir ourgilt with gold, indentit with and with tabill men and Isl. jarg, impudentia, jarganlegr, petulans. jasp cristallyne, chess men of jasp and cristallyne." Inventories, A. v. n. a shrill [To JARGLE, To make sharp 1539, p. 49. This article is mentioned noise time after time in succession, amongst many others, quick which an idea of such at the court Bord. dimin. from gives magnificence ; jctrg<\ of Scotland, in the reign of James V., as could scarcely have been the s. imagined, considering general persua- JARGOLYNE, Expl. by jargoniny, sion as to the extreme of the ' poverty country. another popular word ; Gl. Compl., i.e., Fr. jaspe, Lat. jasp-is, id. chattering. V. JANGIL. [JASS, s. I. A dash, a violent throw, The v. is still used. It is thus distinguished from " Clydes., Banffs. jarg, Gl. Compl. To jarg, to make a single sharp shrill noise to to a of such ; jargle, produce repetition 2. A smart or severe blow, ibid. sounds." V. AKOLE-BARGLE. 3. The noise made by a severe blow, or by JARGONELLE, . A species of pear, S. anything falling heavily, ibid. V. JOSS, of "The Jargonelle ( the cuisse madame of the French, whose jargonelle, vice vena, is our cuisse madame) is a which Jass is an intens. form.] JAS . [C93] JAW

to [To JASS, v. a. To throw with violence, To JAUK, v. n. To trifle, to dally, in walking

dash used also as a ., or work used as ; part. pr. jassin' ; ; [part. pr. jaukin', also a or meaning a violent dash, or shaking, s., like joggin, ibid.] tossing, ibid.] [JAUKEK, . A trifler, a lazy fellow, ibid.] *. Prob. an errat. for v. JAU, JAK, q. To v. n. To travel, c. V. " JAUMPH, Item, ane doublett of quhite taffatiis, with ane JAMFH. jau of blak velvett." Inventories, A. 1C39, p. 42. To JAUNDER, v. n. 1. To talk idly, or in To v. n. 1. To walk as one JAUCIILE, a jocular way, South of S.; the same with that has feeble joints, Upp. Lanarks. Jawner, This seems originally the same with Shaclile, v. V. 2. To converse in a or BAUCHLE, v. n. roving desultory way, Roxb. 2. To make a shift, to do a thing with diffi- " he made 3. To Jaunder about, to about from culty ; as, Hcjauchlit through't," go idly shift ibid. to without a to get through it, place place, having any proper object, Berwicks. s. "He'll an JAUCHLE, A shift; as, mak "Not one of them would venture to take the field ibid. him ' war never in- unco jauchle," against ; they only jokin' they tendit to rin they war just jaunderin wi' the bride- im for fun." Anecd. Pastoral Life, Ediii. Mouth. JATJDIE, s. 1. It primarily denotes the lag., June 1817, p. 248. stomach of a hog, Roxb. JAUNDER, . One who talks or Several superstitious ideas prevail among the vulgar incoherently For. with respect to the jaudie ; but some people affect a foolishly, Ettr. ; Jannerer, id. Gall. regard for them, merely from the love of frolic. The black spot, with which this stomach is marked, is JAUNDER, JANDER, JAXNEU, s. 1. idle talk, carefully avoided by persons of both sexes who are Roxb. in most counties used in ; the plural. conscious that they have lost their virtue. The thief " is touch it the ever What but harm can come of this senseless afraid to ; glutton also, though so jauner?" hungry. Blackw. Mag., Dec. 1821, p. 321. 2. conversation " Rambling ; as, We've had a 2. Expl. "a pudding of oat-meal and hog's jaunder this forenoon," Roxb. lard, with onions and pepper, inclosed in a gude The v. to the common of sk into sow's used as a ja under, by change j, stomach ; formerly supper- might seem allied to Isl. skondr-a, ititare, q. to weary dish at entertainments the given by country one by reiteration on the same subject. people on Fastreu's Even;" Gl. Sibb. This To JAUNT, v. n. To taunt, to abound in term seems generally used in Loth, and jeering language, Fife. S. A. often as to ; equivalent pudding ; as, This seems radically the same with Isl. scurra. a a made of blood. ganle, bloody jaudie, pudding Verel. renders it by Sw. skaemptac/iti;/, synon. with our Arm. guadegen lay minset, a haggis. Lhuyd, vo. Jamph. Su.-G. gant-as, pueriliter ludere. Tucetum. JAUNT, *. A gibe, a taunt, Fife. s. A JAUELLOUR, JEVELLOUR, jailor. JAUNT COAL. The name given to a kind " The the jauellouria (quhilkis kepit presoun quhare of coal, Lanarks. he was) to put hym haistely to deith be auyce of his " " Coal called jaunt coal." Ure's Hist. sonne, pressit down ane heuy burd on his wambe. Rutherglen, p. 290. Bellend. Cron., B. xiv., c. 15. The fo is the battell is chasit, done ceis, [JAUP, s. V. JAWI-.] The presoue brokin, QwjinwBeura Heit and flemit. 86. Dimbar, Bannatyne Poems, p. [To JAUP, v. a. To weary, to fatigue, Fr. C. B. a Hisp. jaula, jaule, Belg. gioole, geol, jail. Banffs.]

s. V. JARHOLE. JAUGS, s. pi. Saddle-bags. V. JAGS. JAURHOLE, JAURNOCH, s. of To JAUK, v. n. Shoes are said to auk, when, Filth, washings dishes, &c., S.O. from being too large, they do not keep close Isl. Dan. to the foot in Aberd. skarn, sordes, id., "mud, mire, dirt, filth," walking, Wolff. Hence skarnager, a dust-man. This seems a of Shach, to merely variety distort, q.v. JAVEL. V. JEVEL. s. 1. A [JAUK, trifle, trifling, dallying, JAW, JAWE, *. 1. A wave or billow, S. Banffs. Hie as ane hill the jaw of the waiter brak, And in ane hepe come on them with an swak. 2. a An idler, trifler, ibid.] Duwj. \'iryil, 16, 27. JAW [094] JAW

" "Then ye see, they sey when it flowes on a rock, Before the door of Saunders Joup, yawned that immecliatelie the jaw returnes backe againe in the sey : oderiferous filthy gulph, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, so our heart set on Christ, except by grace it be daylie, the jaw-hole, in other words, an uncovered common hourlie, momentlie setled, it will returne backe again sewer." St. Ronan, iii. 25. to the owne nature of it." Rollock on 2 Thes., p. 118. 2. Figuratively applied to any society that is 2. A quantity of water thrown out with a jerk, viewed as a receptacle for persons of a a flash of water. Thus one is said to throw worthless or doubtful character, S.; from a jaw of water on another, whether from Jaw, v., to dash. accident or design, S. JAWCKED, part. adj. "Baffled in some " 3. A considerable of as deceived in quantity any liquid ; ; Gall. " attempt, hope Encycl. The cow has a the V. v. _" gi'en gude jaw day ; JAK, the i.e., cow has given a large quantity of To v. n. To talk milk, S. JAWNER, foolishly, Clydes. V. JAUNDER. 4. Coarse or raillery ; petulant language, S. s. Foolish Jau-thers For Paddy Burke, like ony Turk, S, pi. prattle, S.; Nae had at man mercy a', ; synon. V. JAUNDER. An' Charlie Fox threw by the box, An' lows'd his tinkler man. jaw, JAWP, JAUP, JALP, s. 1. That portion of Burns, iii. 269. water which is separated from a wave, when 5. Used also in a in general sense, vulgar lan- it is broken by its own weight, or by dash- for S. guage, loquacity, ing against a rock, ship, or any other body Sibb. from says; "Perhaps Swed. liauf, mare." that resists its force, and causes part of it But there is no Arm. apparent affinity. guager, signi- to off a S. fies a fly ; flash, wave. But Jaw seems to have a common origin with Jawpe, q. v. Rudd. justly observes, that Jawpe differs from Jaw, " as the former denotes the of water from " rebounding To JAW, v. n. 1. To dash, as a wave on a a rock or otherwise. or on the Wele fer from thens standis ane roche in the se, rock, shore, S. Jawyn, part. pa. Forgane the foiny schore and coistis hie, tossed. dashed, Quhilk sum tyme with boldynand wallis quhite Is the of fludis couerit She saw the stately tow'r, by jawpe quite. 40. V. also Shining sae clear and bright, Doug. Virgil, 131, 157, 27. Whilk stood aboon ihejaicing wave, It is also to the action of the waters of a Built on a rock of applied height. river on its banks. Minstrelsy Border, ii. 60. I am hewit and Doug, uses this word in a curious comparison of his god Tybris, wattry haw, as thou with and iaw work with that of Caxton, in which he on the Quhilk, seis, mony iawp plays Bettis thir the bankis doun. rebus of his name brayis, chawing Ibid., 241, 49. His febill bene mank and prois mutulate ; Bot come fra the my propyne pres fute hate, 2. of or A spot mud dirty water ; Unforlatit, not jawyn fra tun to tun, properly, In fresche sapoure new from the bery run. that which is thrown on one's clothes, by Virgil, Prol. 126, 8. the motion of the feet, or of a horse or car- 2. v. a. To to throw out in a riage, when the road is wet or miry, S. spirt, jet ; as, to jaw water, S. 3. The dregs of any thing, S. A. Tempests may cease to jaw the rowan flood, Come ! whurl the drumlie o't dregs rown ; Corbies and tods to grieu for lambkins blood ; But wi' that fortune gif ye quarrel, But I, opprest with never-ending grief, Gie then ihejaups anither twirl. Maun ay despair of lighting on relief. Rev. J. Nicol's Poems, ii. 60, 61. Ramsay's Poems, ii. 65. It is pron. jalp, both in the North and South of S. ; 3. To jaw one, to assault one with coarse rail- in the Vfestjau-pe. The learned Rudd. has a whimsical to mock or S. very conjecture lery, rally, concerning this word. He thinks that it may be de- Shejaw'd them, misca'd them. rived from Fr. japp-er, to bark or bawl as a dog; "like A. Douglas's Poems, p. 125. the rocks of Scylla, which were feigned by poets to have been metamorphosed into dogs, because of the barking 4. To talk and as it were freely, familiarly, noise made by the repercussion of the waves on these at random, S. rocks." But our ancestors did not dip so deep into Ye're aye sae canty an' sae poetical allegory. cheary, Sibb. refers to Jaw as the which he To jaw wi' you I ne'er grow weary. origin, conjec- deduces from Sw. hauf, the sea. Picken's Poems, 1788, p. 59. turally We have the same word, in a more primitive form, in Isl. a or the JAW-HOLE, *. 1. A place into which dirty gialf-ur, hissing roaring wave, boiling of the sea Verel. Ind. levior maris unda is S. ; Gialver, ; water, &c., thrown, Olai Lex. The " Run. learned Jonaeus, Gl. Orkneyinga Ye maun haud wessel by the end o' the loan, and S., observes Isl. that it is now con- " concerning ij'mdf-r, tak tent o' the jaw-hole. Guy Mannering, i. fined to the noise made by waves broken by the rocks. JAW [095] JED

Hodie vox Imcc, do sono tantum adhibetur quern allisao at London, by the allowance, and at the desire, of a rupibus undae maris edunt. The word assumes a dif- good many of the brethren for the Resolutions." ferent form in other dialects; Teut. swalp, fluctus, Wodrow, I. 7. unda, fluctuatio, Belg. zwalp, a flash of water, (Sewel.) Sw. watn-swalp, (Seren.) Germ, em schwall wasser, id. JEBAT, s. A gibbet, Aberd. Reg. Su.-G. sqwalp-a, agitarc humida, ita ut cffuudantur vel "Becaua they conteuipnit his offyciaris efter that turbentur, Hire ; to dash, Vatnet sijiaatpar oefwer, the thay war summoud to compere to his justice, thay war water dashes Isl. over, Wideg. ; Mod. Sax. schulp-en, all tane be his gard, and hyngit on jebatis." BeUend. id. skolp-a, Teut. fluctuare, iiuctibus ; swalp-en, jactari Cron., B. xv., c. 1. Belg. zwalp-en, scholp-en, to flash as water. Fr. yibet. Seren. derives the E. word from Sw. sursum et elevari. To JAWP, v. n. To dash and rebound as gippa, raptim 8. V. the s. water, JEBBERS, s. pi. Idle talk, absurd chatter- Unmouyt as ane roik of the se, Clatters. ing, Dumfr. ; synon. Claivers, Quham with grete brute of wattir smyte we se, Hyraself susteuis by his huge wecht, Evidently from the E. v. to Jabber. Fra wallis fel in all thare bir and swecht Jawpyny about his skyrtis with mouy one bray. To JECK, v. n. To jeck any piece of work, Doug. Virgil, 223, 28. to neglect it, Roxb. V. JAK and JAUK. To JAWP, JAAP, JALP, v. a. To bespatter " JEDDART JUG. A substantial brass with mud, S. To jape, Fr. japper, to vessel, very old, still used as a standard for bespatter." Sir J. Sinclair's Observ., p. 87. and and the "Ride fair and jaap nane;" S. Prov. "Taken dry liquid measure, kept by Dean of Guild. It about from riding through a puddle : but applied to too home contains eight jesting." Kelly, p. 283. gills. A. Bor. "to jaup, to make a noise like water agi- tated in a close vessel Grose. ;" JEDDART JUSTICE. A trial after legal To JAWP THE WATER. To time on the infliction of punishment, S. spend " Numbers of Border riders were executed without any business without the slightest prospect even the of a trial it is formality ; and even said, that of success, "A' that do 'ill be ye just jawpin in mockery of justice, assizes were held upon them the water." after that they had suffered." This refers to the period succeeding the union of the crowns. "The To JAWP WATERS with one. To fast and play memory of Dunbar's legal proceedings at Jedburgh, is in the loose. I'll no waters w? ; said to preserved proverbial phrase, Jeddart Justice, jawp you which a who has made a with signifies trial after execution." Minstrelsy person bargain Border, Pref. LVI. wishes to cast another, and it, Fife. I have a different account given of Jeddart Justice. It is said to signify either a general condemnation, or To JAWTHER, v. n. To be engaged in a general acquittal. Twenty or thirty persons, as tradition been to trial here at idle or frivolous conversation, S. gives it, having brought once, it was previously resolved that they should have mentions as a E. Bailey jointer provincial word, a common fate. One of the assize, to whose lot it fell id; to give the casting voice, having fallen asleep, as he was rather in a bad humour at being disturbed, on the question being put to him, is said to have replied to to to to chatter whence prattle, tattle, babble, ; jad- the Judge, Hang them a'. rer, a tittle-tattle ; Wolff. " prattler, jatlern, babbling, First hang and draw, Then hear the cause by Lutford Law." s. frivolous dis- JAWTHERS, pi. Idle, Grose's Proverbs, end of Provincial Gl. course, indicating a weak mind, S. JEDBURGH STAFF, apparently a kind of spear, If not derived from jaw, perhaps allied to Isl. rjial- for which the artificers of Jed- fra, iucondita loqui. making burgh were formerly celebrated. . To set one's JAY-FEATHERS, pL up jay- Rudd. (vo. Oed,) has observed that "Jedburgh feathers at another, to answer in a similar staves are thus described by Jo. Major, F. 48. Ferrum 4 in robusti extremo manner, or to express disapprobation in chalybeum pedibus longum ligui Jeduardienses artifices ponunt." "She sic a strong terms; as, made ram- They were used so late as the time of the civil wars. paging, that I was obliged to set up my jay- "That the footmen be armed with musket and sword, or pikes and sword, and where these cannot be feathers at her," Roxb. had, that they be furnished with halberts, Lochaber The contains a ludicrous allusion to expression the axes, or Jedburgh staves and swords." Spalding's airs of a in mighty jackdaw, when bail humour. Troubles, ii. 101. It is commonly called Jeddart staff, and understood JAY-PYET, s. A Perths. jay, Ang. to denote the same kind of weapon which is still carried before the Magistrates of that or in To JEALOUSE, v. a. To suspect, to have burgh, other processions. Some of these resemble the halbert a S. V. JALOUSE. jealousy of, on one side, having a short kind of bill or sharp hook " The brethren and ministers, who in their senti- on the other. There are others which exhibit the hatchet-form on both sides. in ments could not approve of the Publick Resolutions, They are length from seven to feet. did very much fear and jeulouse Mr. James Sharp, iiow eight JED [COG] JEI

a de- JEDGE, s. 1. A gauge or standard. 2. In vulgar language, contemptuous ' ' for That the Provost and Baillies of Linlithgow who signation a singular character, Loth., are keepers of the said Measure should produce before Tweedd. them the said Measure which hath been out given by This learned jeeg our Lintoun had, &c. all them to the Burrowes and & others his Majesties Lintoun Green, p. 21. Lieges these fiftie or threescore years bygone, with v. a. n. 1. To creak. theirjedges and warrands which they have for the same. To JEEG, JEEACK, and Who their said Measure & Firlot with the produced The door jeegs, it creaks on the hinges, S. Jedrje which is their warrand thereof. And the same "Lick your loof, and lay't to mine, dry leatherjeegs Measure and Firlot being found agreeable with the said ay ;" Ramsay's S. Prov., p. 50. Kelly writes it giys, Jedge, &c." Acts. Ja. VI., 28th June, 1617, Murray. p. 239. 2. The order or warrant from a Dean of A weaver, in vulgar phraseology, is said to jeeg awa at his in reference to the sound made the Aberd. loom, by Guild, S. " loom, 0. Fr. jaufje, a gage, the instrument wherewith a lal.jag-a, jarja a sama, eadem oberrare chorda, idem cask is measured ;" Cotgr. saepius iterare ; G. Andr., p. 128. But whatever be the origin, it is the same with GEIG, q. v. JEDGRY, s. The act of gauging. To move so as to a ' ' [2." produce creaking noise, By a gift under his great seal, gives and grants the jedgry of salmon, herring, and white fish, packed and ibid.] peiled, within the kingdom of Scotland 1618." Blue s. A Blanket, p. 105. [JEEG, JEEACK, creaking noise.] Perhaps the term here rather denotes the duty adv. With noise.] arising from this act of gauging. [JEEG, JEEACK, creaking [JEEGAN, JEEGIN, JEEACKIN, part. pr. Used To v. n. 1. To move, to stir, to alter JEE, also as a and as an one's na s., adj.~\ position ; He wad jee. (i s. Little With furious haste he soon skipt o'er the hight, JEEGETS, pi. sounding boards, She never till he was out o' jee'd, sight. pegs and wheels in a piece of machinery, Moss's Helenore, p. 60. such as a mill Gall. Our fancies jee between you twa. ;" Encycl. ; apparently Ramsay's Poems, ii. 225. named from the creaking sound they make. 2. To move to one side. In this sense it is V. JEEG, v. used with to horses or cattle in respect To JEEGLE, v. n. To make a jingling noise, S. draught, S. JEEGLE, JEGIL, s. The noise which a door Seren. gives Sw. gaa, as signifying both to budge, and to turn round. makes on its hinges, S. V. JEEG, to creak.

a. " To v. n. To move from side to To JEE, v. To move ; as, Ye're no able JEEGGIT, to to jee it ;" You cannot move it, S. side, jog, Ang. It has been supposed that this may have originated s. A move, [JEE, motion, S.] from E. gig, as denoting the motion in a dance. Or shall we trace it to Isl. jack-a, continue movere ? [JEE, JEE-UP, interj. A call to a horse to n. move, S.] [To JEEGLE, v. V. under To JEEG.]

s. An [To JEEACK, v. a. and . V. To JEEG.] JEEGLER, unfledged bird, Loth., perhaps from the sound of its cry, as allied To v. n. to JEEDGE, Perhaps, ; adjudge q. to Jeeg, v. to curse, to devote to destruction, Aberd. s. A S. They swore, the jeedg't, and roar't and liet, JEEST, JEAST, JEIST, JEST, joist, Ai' cheatet till a man. "Jeistso! o^k ilk tuentie peices," &c. Acts Cha. D. Anderson's Poems, p. 122. Ed. vii. 252. II.," 1814, Jeasts of aik the peece xi s." Rates, A. 1611. [JEEDGAN, JEEDGIN, s. The act of cursing, "Tignus, a, jest." Wedderb. Vocab., p. 12. V. Banffs.] GEIST. JEFWEL. V. JEVEL. JEEDING, part. pr. "Judging," Gl. Antiq. JEISSLE, s. A multitude of objects, thrown To JEEG, v. n. To taunt, to scoff at a per- " together without order, viewed son or thing, Ang. are collectively, Why ye ay jeeg- Ettr. For. gin at me ?" Hence, This must have been originally the same with A. ' ' " " Bor. an North. Grose. JEEG, s. 1. A taunt, a gibe, Ang. Nane Jossel, hodge-podge. of Don't at your jeegs ;" jeer me. JEISTIECOR, s. A jacket, South of S. It is that it is a cant probable term, borrowed per- "It's a sight for sair een, to see a gold laced jeistkor from the motion of the me- haps creaking loom, and in the Ha" garden sae late at e'eu. Ou, a jeisticor used to denote the irksomeness of taunt- taphorically that's a jacket like your ain." Rob Roy, i. 132. to the ing language person against whom it is directed, From the same origin with Justicoat, the pronuncia- especially when frequently repeated. tion of the North of 8. JEL [097] JER

1. . dwarfish JELLY, adj. Upright, honest, worthy ; [JENNAPIE, A person or ani- a jelly man, a man of integrity and honour, mal, Shetl.] S. B. JENNY, s. The diminutive of Janet, a A jelly sum to carry on woman's S. A fishery's design'd. name, Ramsay's Poems, ii. 354. s. 1. of But tell me, man, how matters were agreed, JENNY-SPINNER, A species fly, Or by wha's interest ye Simon free'd. also denominated gat Spinning Maggie, Loth. ; B. Ane's, wha well cud, the Provost o' the town, Nettles, Lanarks. Daddie A. jelly man, well worthy of a crown. Jenny ; Langlegs, Shirrefa' Poems, p. 33. Renfrs.; and the Fiddler, in some parts of In Roxb. it is not 2. Good, excellent in its kind, Moray. Angus. only named but And he's doen him to & jelly hunt's ha'. Jenny Spinner, Langleggit Taylor. Was far frae town. ony "According to a reverend agriculturist, the worm Jamieson's ii. 194. Popular Sail., which so much injured the oat crop this season is the As this in it term 1ms no connexion signification, progeny of the fly that is so often seen in windows and seems to have as little in with E. origin, jolly. Being around artificial lights, with long legs and body, called a it is most of Scandi- North-country word, probably jenny-spinners. It belongs to the order diptera, and navian extract. It allied to Su.-G. seems gill, gild, the genus tipula. It is the Tipula oloracea, which has which and in a primarily signifies, able, powerful ; been remarked as having laid waste whole fields of oats secondary sense, respects the moral qualities. Thus, in the year 1800, in various parts of Scotland." Kdin. vir verba et valida ord-gild man, fidus, cujus promissa Even. Courant, Sept. 1, 1817. sunt ; Ihre. Gill is also used in this sense, without 2. Also " a composition. Jag haaller honom for gill i den saken ; expl. toy ;" Gall. Encycl. I think he may be depended upon in that affair; Wideg. s. Hazardous enter- The root is gell-a, valere. It seems to have been origi- [JOPERD, JUPERDY, used to the character of one who was nally express both prize, bold attempt, battle. V. JEOPERD.] able and willing to pay his debts, in the same sense in which it is now said of one, that he is a good man. JEOPARTY TROT, *. 1. A quick motion between and when adv. running walking, one, JELLILY, Merrily, Moray, jollify, E. on account of fear or weakness, is not able Andjellily dance the damsels, Blythe-blinkin in your ee. to run at full speed, Dumfr. Jamieson's Popular Ball., i. 189. The term seems to have had its origin from the flight of those, who, living in a to JEMMIES, . pi. A. species of woollen country subject many inroads and depredations, were often obliged to escape cloth, Aberd. V. SKAFTS. from their enemies in of ; while, consequence hot pur- suit their lives were in jeopardy every moment. [JENDL, v. n. To be jealous of one, Shetl.] 2. It is also used as a contemptuous designa- JENEPERE, s. Juniper, King's Quair. tion for a person, Dumfr., perhaps as -V. HERB ERE. This is still the pron. S. equivalent to Coward, poltroon. JENETTIS, . pi. A of fur. V. species To v. n. To Roxb. V. CHIRK. JONETTIS. JERG, creak, JERG, s. A creaking sound, ibid. JENKIN, s. A proper name. "Jenkin "Thilk dor gyit ay thilk tother wheesk, and thilk Bell ;" iii. 391. Acts, p. tother jery." Wint. Ev. Tales, ii. 42.

JENKIN'S HEN. To dee the death o' Jen- JERKIN, s. A term lately introduced into kin's hen, to die unmarried. Dumfr., for a kind of pic-nic meeting I loor she'd die by far, like Jenkin's hen, the low Irish. Ere we again meet yon unruly men. among Jerkins. in the Jioss's Helenore, p. 93. "Some fling mite to her; but go " not thither, as are of the low "To pine awa' bit and bit, like Jenkin'i hen, is a jerkins truly meetings S. B. Gall. phrase used, But the phrase seems properly to vulgar." Encycl. signify, "to die unmarried." Jenkin's hen had never *. state of laid any eggs. This explanation is illustrated the JERNISS, GERNIS, The being by " following passage : soaked in rain or I water ; as, was just in An' now, poor 'oman for that I ought ken, a jerniss wi' rain ;" Fife. She never may get sic an offer again, But pine away bit "an bit like Jenkin's hen JEROFFLERIS, *. Id. Rock and Wee Pickle Tow. GERAFLOURIS, pi. Gilliflowers. I ance hnd sweethearts nine or ten, And dawted wi' the fair bird in hir bill dearly men ; This rycht gan hold like The again I'll never ken, Of red jeroffleria, with thair stalkis grene, Till life I it quat ; A fair branche.

! the But Oh death of Jenkin's hen, King's Quair, vi. 6. I shudder at it And thou perajloure, mot I thankit be, The Old Scott's Maid, A. Poems, p. 87. All other Hour'is for the love of tlid. To die like Jenkin's hen, is to die a maid, as the hen Ibid., st 18. referred to had never received token of any the cock's Teut. gheroffel, Fr. giroflte, Ital. garofolo; all from affection Koxb. ; Gr. KapviKfuiXXof, Lat. caryophylla, id. V. Skinner. VOL. II. Q4 JER [698] JIC

[JEROY, s. A great-grandchild, Shetl.] [JEWS-EHRS, s. A species of Lichen,

s. name a corr. Banffs.] [JERUM, A proper ; prob. of JEROME, Shetl.] JEVELLOUR. V. JAVELLOUK.

s. in JISP. To v. a. 1. To Lanarks. JESP, A gap the woof. V. JIB, JIBB, fleece, ; to Whit synon., Ettr. For. To JETHER, v. n. To talk idly, Fife. V. JAWTHEK. Probably allied to Teut. sckabb-en, schubb-en, seal- to pere, desquamare ; Germ, schab-en, scrape. Er " schindet und he fleeces and he and To JETT up and down. To flaunt about, or schabet, strips ; pills polls ; Ludwig. from to place. Fr. jett-er, jactare;" place 2. "To milk Gall. to Gl. Sibb. closely ;" Encycl. ; q. drain to the to Roxb. dregs ; Strip, synon., To JEVE, JAVE, v. a. To hither and " push JIBBINGS, s. pi. The last milk that can be " thither, Fife. V. the s. out of a cow's ibid. drawn udder ; ; Strip- JEVE, s. A push or shove with the elbow, S. pings, Roxb. This, I has the same with E. apprehend, origin To JIBBER, v. n. The same with E. jabber, shove; Germ, scheib-en, schieb-en, Su.-G. skufw-a, skiw-a, South of S. trudere, propellere. "The jack-a-nape jibbered and cried as if it was v. a. 1. to To JEVEL, To joggle, shake, Ang. mocking its master." Redgauntlet, i. 234. This ia a deriv. either from the s. or the Germ. v. s. nonsensical V. JEVE. [JIBBER-JABBER, Noisy talk, of sub- speech, Clydes., Banffs.] 2. To spill a large quantity any liquid at once from JIBBER-JABBER, v. n. To talk in a non- stance ; distinguished Jairble, [To to in sensical, foolish manner ; as the latter signifies, to continue spill part. pres.,jibber- used also as a s. and as an small quantities, Ettr. For. jabberin', adj., ibid.] JEVEL, JEWEL, s. The dashing of water, To v. a. To to to des- Lanarks. JLBBLE, spill, lose, troy, Ayrs. As Goth, sk is frequently changed into/, the affinity same with Jirble and Jairble of other counties. between this term and Isl. skafl is singular. This is The rendered by Haldorson, Unda decumana mans, "a [JiBBLE, . A very small quantity, Clydes.] great wave of the sea." To JICK, v. a. 1. To avoid by a sudden jerk To JEVEL, v. n. To move obliquely, Loth. of the body, Ettr. For. Germ, schief, Teut. scheef, scheel, obliquus. 2. To elude. It is said of a hare, that she has s. A JEVEL, JEFWELL, JAVELL, contemptu- "jickit the hunds;" Tweedd., Berwicks., of which ous term, the proper meaning Upp. Lanarks. seems to be now lost. 3. To Jick the school, to play the truant, Upp. and caw'd him Let be, quo Jock, Jevel, Lanarks. And be the tail him tuggit. Chr. Kirk, A. 7. This seems a modification of the Goth, form of the Su.-G. A.-S. Calland. Javell, edit. Tytler, and Sibb. Gavett, verb ; swick-a, fallere, decipere ; swic-an; Pink. Maitland Poems, p. 445. Alem. bi-suich-en, id. As Su.-G. swink-a, subterfugia This ia one of the hard names used by Dunbar in quaerere, is undoubtedly formed from swik-a, by the his Complaint. insertion of n, Jick differs from Jink precisely in the same manner. ' Fowl, jow-jourdane-heded.7OTefo, Cowkins, henseis, and culroun kevels s. 1. A sudden Ettr. For. Maitland Poems, p. 109. JICK, jerk, " Whill that the Quein began to craft a zealous and 2. The act of eluding, ibid. a bald James Chalmeris of Gaithgyrth, said, man, Su.-G. and Isl. swik, dolus, fraus. 'Madame, we knaw that this is the malice and devyce of thai and of that bastard,' meaning the to a Jefwelllis, JICKT, adj. Startling ; applied horse, of Sanct that standis Bischope Androis, by yow." Selkirks. Knox's Hist., p. 94. This word occurs in the conference between the To JICKER, v. n. To go quickly about any- Lieutenant of the Tower, and Sir Thomas More, before to walk Gall., Dumfr. his execution. Johns, renders it, "a wandering or thing, along smartly, dirty fellow." In sweat and sun how they did jicker ! In Prompt. Parv. it is expl. joppue, gerro, a trifler. The 'prentice lads brought stoups o' licker Which made their ban's a' bra an' Maitland Poems, Note, p. 451. sicker, To the mell. Isl. gaflning, homo lascivus, gaflscap, lascivia; or, ply Davidson's Seasons, p. 39. geift-a, blaterare, geifla madr, oblocutor odiosus ? But be Isl. continue e6 a con- the etymon, like the signification of the term, must jack-a, agito ; jackar, vergit,

left uncertain. tinuatione ; G. Andr. JIC [699] JIM

JICKERING, part. adj. Having a gaudy JILLET, s. 1. A giddy young woman; im- but tawdry appearance, Gall. plying the idea of levity, and generally con- " " A female is said to be jickering when she is rather joined with some epithet, as, idle jillet" S. better dressed she than than should [be] ; mair braw He saw misfortune's cauld nor-west she is fine." Gall. a bitter blast Encycl. Lang mastering up ; Kilian gives Teut. schiker-en as synon. with scheuer- \jiilel brak his heart at last. effuudere vooem Hi. 216. en, retonare, perstrepere ; garrire, ; Buna, also, immoderate ridere. " cachinnari, Dr. Johns., when explaining E. jilt, says, Perhapi from giglot, by contraction ; or gillet, or gillot, the diminutive of the JIFFIE, s. 1. A moment, Loth.; perhaps a gill, ludicrous name of a woman. Tis also called in of jillet Scotland." Diet. corr. Gliff, synon. q. v. Jiffin, S.A. S. jillet, however, does not convey the same idea " a moment or instant also called a Weaven, expl. ; with E. jilt. Jiffin;" Gl. Sibb. 2. A woman into the state of The thrawn-fac'd politicians, now as thick young entering I' IN' in v spats as paddocks in a pool, puberty, Perth.; synon. Wench) pron. Wod aften hi a jiffle to auld Nick Sen' ane anither dunnerin' saul an' hooL Winsh, South of S. 365. T. Scolt'a Poems, p. Allied to Isl. as perhaps gicel-a, pellicere ; denoting "In a Jiffy the whole market place was as white the arts employed for attracting the attention of the with scattered meal as if it had been covered with other sex. snow." The Provost, p. 102. " s. dash of a small The couarts didua staun' us & jiffy, but aff tae the JILP, [1. A water, quan- hills wi' like a herd o' raes an' a o' hun's themsel, pack tity, Banffs.] at their heels." Saint Patrick, i. 169. 2. The act of or Nell slade reckless i' the tide : dashing throwing water,

Hech ! it was an unco glitlin ; Loth. Aff his huggers Watty drew ; Down the howm, an' in Ajiffin A of a Row'd his fecket like a clew. [3. person disagreeable temper, gene- to a Picken'a Poems, ii. 47. rally applied woman, Banffs.]

[2. Haste, hurry, Banffs.] To JILP, v. a. To dash water on one Loth. Isl. gialp-a, allidere. V. JILT. [JiFFiE, adv. With haste, Banffs.] To JILT, v. a. To throw or dash water on v. n. To make to [To" JIFFIE, haste, hurry, to one, Fife ; Jilp, Loth. ibid.] s. A flash or dash of water JILT, slight ; as, To v. n. To Perths. a Perths. JIFFLE, shuffle, jilt of water, Fife, ; Jilp, Loth. As S. jalp or jawp is undoubtedly allied to Su.-G. JIFFLE, . The act of ibid. shuffling, sqwalp-a, agitare humida, sk of the Goths often in S. This is either a corr. of E. the v., or from Teut. assuming the form of j ; jill is probably a cognate of as I have in ichuyffel-en, prolabi ; observed, that, many sqtcalt-a, agitari, moveri motu inequali ; Ihre. instances, sk of the northern nations, or tch of the assumes in To v. n. To make a Teutonic, S. the form of j, as in Jamph, JIMMER, disagreeable Jeve, &c. noise on a violin, Koxb. Perhaps it has the same origin with YAMER, YAM- To JIG, v. a. To play the fiddle, S. MER, v., q. v., both regarding a sound that is not Jock a souter Willison, bred, grateful to the ear. Wha for the fiddle left his trade, Jigg'd it far better than he sped. JIMMER, s. The sound made by a fiddle when Mayne's SMer Gun, p. 42. not well played, Roxb. It is singular that the S. v. signifies to play on the violin, and the E. v, of the same form, to (lance. The sweet bewitching piece o' timmer, S. word, however, claims with 0. E. a Could I but claw your wame, ye limmer, affinity gig, LikeW fiddle. Isl. gigia, Su.-G. giga, a Jew's harp.. The yM s, There wad be latter signifies also a fiddle. mony Ajimmer, I'm sure, atween us. To his Fiddle, A. &ott's Poenu, p. 2. [JiGGER, s. A term of reproach or disres- 1. dressed in a pect, Banffs., Clydes.] JIMMY, adj. Spruce, showy manner, S. [To JIGGLE, v. n. To rock or shake back- 2. Handy, dexterous, Aberd. wards and forwards, Shetl.] 3. or ibid. Neatly" ingeniously made, V. s. The common term JIGOT, for a joint of GYM. mutton, S. " Mr. Todd gives Jemmy, spruce, as a low word." hae at "I been the cost and outlay o' a jigol o' mutton," &c. The Entail, iii. 65. To JIMP, v. n. To leap, S. jump, E. Fr. The term also occurs in E. gigot. I mention this v. merely to take notice of a prover- bial used in to denote phrase, S., a transport of joy ; s. Corr. of MILE, JELE, JELY, GILES.] He was like to jimp (or loup) out of his tkin. JIM [700] JIN

There is a similar Su.-G. expression, used precisely JINGLE, s. The smooth water at the back in the same sense ur dicitur de ; Krypa s/cinnet, iis, of a stone in a sui river, Ang. qui pra gaudio luxuriante quasi impotentes sunt ; Ihre, vo. Krypa. This phraseology, he adds, is to be s. A in traced to the highest antiquity. For the Latins in JINGLE-THE-BONNET, game, like manner say, Intra suam se pellicum continere. V. which two or more put a half-penny each, Erasma Adagia. or any piece of coin, into a cap or bonnet. After or them JIMP, adj. 1. Neat, slender, S. jingling shaking together, they are thrown on the and he who has And wha will lace my middle jimp ground ; Wi' a linen band ? lang most heads, when it is his turn to jingle, Minstrelsy Border, ii. 58. gains the stakes which were put into the 2. Scanty, S. V. GTMP, adj. bonnet; Teviotd. And so soon as the jimp three raiths were gane, This is also called Shuffle-cap, which is given by The daintiest little ane Jean fuish bonny hame, Johns, as an E. I find no other autho- To flesh and blud that ever had a claim. word, although rity for it, than that of Arbuthnot, a Scotsman. Ross's Helenore, p. 13. This is apparently'the same with skimp in vulgar E., as in Garrick's May-day. JINIPPEROUS, adj. Spruce, trim, stiff, Then the fops are so line, Aberd.; Primpit, synon. With lank wasted chine, And a little skimp bit of hat. To JINK, v. n. 1. To dodge, to elude a per- This form of the word confirms the etymon given, son who is to hold of to vo. Gymp. trying lay one, escape from another some sudden S. by motion, ; JIMP, s. Thin slips of leather, put between jenk, S. B. the outer and inner soles of a shoe, to give It admits this sense most fully in that profane Ad- the of appearance thickness, S. dress to the Deil, in which the writer expresses that which deceive not- Perhaps from Su.-G. Isl. skam, brevis, skaemt-a, hope, by many themselves, that, a wicked in the end. brevem reddere, as denoting that sort of leather which withstanding life, they may escape is so short as to be of no use. He'll turn a corner jinkin An' cheat you yet. JIMP, JIMPLY, adv. Scarcely, hardly, S. Burns, iii. 75. " The lammie lichi and boundis. She had fa'en a wee ower thick wi' a cousin o" jenkis Jamieson's Popular Sail, i. 286. her ain that her father had some ill-will to, and sae it was, that after she had been married to Sir Richard 2. The term also signifies to give the slip in jimp four months, for marry him she maun its like, whatever to to S. ye'll no hinder her gi'eing them a present o' a bonny way ; cheat, trick, knave bairn." ii. 242. Arcesius Antiquary, For Jove did jink ; The gentles a' ken roun' about, JIMPY, adj. Slender, Nithsd., Ayrs.; the He was my lucky-deddy. Poems in the Buchan 15. same with Jimp. Speech of Ulysses, Dial., p. But a broidered belt, wi' a buckle o' gowd, 3. To make a turn ; to the Herjimpy waist maun span. quick applied this it Remains of Nithsdale Song, p. 11. motion of liquids. In sense occurs in a in which the of JIMPS, s. pi. A kind of easy stays, open poem, strength genius is enlisted in the service of intem- before, worn by nurses, S. Jumps, E. unhappily This is probably, as Johns, supposes, a corr. of Fr. perance. jupe, a shepherd's frock, corps dejupe, stays. thou my Muse ! guid anld Scotch Drink ! Whether thro' wimpling worms than jink, ream o'er the JIMPEY, s. Seemingly the same with Jimps. Or, richly brown, brink, In glorious faem, We hae wealth o' in yarn clues, Inspire me. a coat To make me scaAjimpey. Burns, iii. 13. Jamieson's Popular Sail., i. 310. 4. To move nimbly, used in a general sense, JINCH, adj. Neat, Aberd. West of S. The parish-clerk came up the yard, fu' o' Patie's thro' wi' wondrous A man meek mind ; spool jinks might, Eight jinch he was, and full weel-faured, An' ay it minds me o' the bridal night. His claithing was fu' fine. TannahiU's Poems, p. 23. Skinner's Poet, 132. Christmas Ba'ing, Misc. , p. 5. To to in the S. Can this be a corruption of Fr. gent, neat, spruce, or escape, avoid, general sense, of Teut. ient, glient, bellus ? Whatever be its origin, There the herds can jink the show'rs it appears originally from the same fountain with 'Mang thriving vines an' myrtle bow'rs. Perjink. Fergusson's Poems, ii. 107. the whole [JING-BANG, *. The whole, 6. Denotes the quick motion of the bow on number, everything belonging, Clydes., the fiddle, Aberd., Roxb. Banff*.] The fiddler jinked lang, And tir'd our lasses. JINGLE, s. Gravel, Dumfr. V. CHINGLE. W. Beattie's Tales, p. 11. JIN [701] JIR

To dance wi' her where fiddles jlnkin play, JINKIE, a. A small chink, Ayrs.; evidently 1 1 mil' nil' her feet I've borne my lass away. corr. from She struggled, but her bonny rowin ee the E. word. her fu' to wi' me. Spake blythe gang alang "If the wind should rise, and the smoke no vent A. Scott's Poems, 1811, p. 96. sae weel as ye could wis' just open a wee bit jinkie o' this window." K. Gilhaize, iii. 64. 7. Transferred to dancing, Buchan. Then ilka wanter wudlins jinks [JINNY-MONYFEET, s. A species of To hear a tune. Banffs. V. Then Tullie gart ilk aaliejink it, centipede, MONYTEET.] Till an' rair't rinkit caps trenchers and ; v. a. ? Auld carlins at the lum-side winkit To JIPPER, To peril, q. to jeopard To see them flitter. " He was a dextrous fellow that Derrick. This man Tarraa's Poems, p. 12. Gregory is not fit tojipper a joint with him." Nigel, iii. 176. 8. To spend time idly, S. A. It seems to include the idea of properly secreting To JIRBLE, JAIRBLE, v. a. I. To spill any one's self from the eye of a superior. liquid by carelessly the vessel that If stowenlins, whan thou was na moving tliinkin, contains I'd been wi' bonnie lasses jinkin. it, Fife, Ettr. For. V. JEVEL. Soon, soon fund out. I had grit cause 2. a small To rue I ever brak thy laws. To empty quantity of any liquid Rev. NicoVa i. J. Poems, 53. backwards and forwards, from one vessel to from Fr. to to to deceive Perhaps jonch-er, gull, cog, ; S. A. or another, also to dally, jest, toy with ; Cotgr. But it rather seems radically the same with Su.-G. sicink-a, subter- JIRBLING, . The act of in fugia quaerere. Germ, schwink-en, schwank-en, celeriter emptying liquids movere, circumagere, motitare. Wachter derives the this way, S. A. Germ, word from id. the Su.-G. v. " schweng-en, ; Hire, Its the jinketting and the jirbling with tea anil from whence wik-a, cedere, swik-a, decipere. with trumpery that brings our nobles to ninepence, and inony a het ha'-house to a hired lodging in the Abbey." To JINK in. To enter any place suddenly, St. Ronan, i. 235. unexpectedly, and clandestinely, S. " s. A sudden Shetl. V. Could not ye have let us ken an ye had wussed till [JIRD, push, CHIRT.] hae been present at the ceremony ? lord couldna My v. n. To JIRG, To to ; tak it weel your coming blinking and jinking in, in creek, jar synon. Jeey. that fashion. Antiquary, ii. 270. V. GERG.

JINK, s. 1. The act of eluding another, S. JIRG, JURG, JURGAN, s. 1. The act of creak- Our billie's gi'en us a' a jink, ing, S. An owre the sea. Burns, iii. 214. 2. The sound occasioned by creaking shoes, S. 2. a turn or in a Metaph. particular point 3. The sound caused by walking over a quag- dispute, S. Aberd. Ayrs. mire, ; Jurg, "At this^'ini o' their controversy, who should come into the house, ringing ben to the hearth-stane with his JIRGLE, s. Any very small quantity of iron heels, and the rattling rowels o' his spurs, but in of liquor ; what has been left the bottom Winterton !" E. Gilhaize, i. 158. a glass, or has been emptied from one vessel

. 1. JlNKER, A gay sprightly girl, a wag. to another, S. Dwells she with matrimonial thunder, Isl. grugg, signifies faeces, dregs. Where mates, some greedy, some deep drinkers, Contend with thriftless mates I orjinkers To JIRGLE, v. n. To empty any small quan- Ramsay's Poems, ii. 489. tity of liquor from one vessel to another, S. 2. to a horse in its Applied quick motions ; " scuttle, syuon. that tunis quickly," Gl. Burns. To v. a. To one's to rub That day ye was &jinker noble, JIRK, jerk teeth, For heels an' win'. them one against another, to gnash, S. Burns, iii. 142. This is the same with CHIRK, q. v. JINKIE, s. A game among children, in which To JIRK, v. a. To unload a so as to they run round a table trying to catch vessel, defraud the custom-house a term in one whose business is by quick turns to ; smug- elude them, Loth. gling, S. "M'Groul and M'Bain engaged to meet him in the s. The act of JINKING, eluding by quick morning on board as soon as the Hazard was fairly in motion, S. the harbour, and assist in jirking the vessel." The Smugglers, i. 125. To throw out by a jerk ? "I have not forgot the jinking we used to have mill about the ; and your father was whiles very JIRKIN, JIRKINETT, s, A sort of bodice angry at our leaving the door open." Petticoat Tales, without whale-bone, worn by females, as a JIR [702] JOA

substitute for Roxb. the "This Kynge William laye a bedde at Iloen stays, ; evidently in the last end of his The of same with E. to the dress of (Rothomage) lyfe. kynge jerkin, applied Fraunce scorned hym in this maner. Kyng Wyllyam a man. of Englonde lieth now as wymmen done a chyldbedd, and takyth to slouth. He bourded so. For the A' tramp their feckfu' jirkin fu, hym To sleek aneath the bowster. kynge hadd slaked his grete wombe wyth a drynke that he hadde The Tarras's Poems, p. 74. dronke. kynge was dyspleysed

this scorn ; and I shall offer a My Lady's goun thair's gairs upon't, wyth sayd, hym sae rare thousande candels, when I shal to of And gowden spratngs upon't ; goo chyrche But Jenny's jimps and jirkenet, chylde," &c. Polycron. Fol. 567, b. My Lord thinks muckle mair upon't. Hardyng uses the same word elsewhere, when giving Old Song. the character of Maude, Henry I.'s Queen, the worthy V. GlKKIENKT. daughter of an excellent mother, Margaret Queen to Malcolm Canmore. To JIRT, v. a. To squirt, Galloway. V. The prisoners also, and women eke with childe CHIRT. And in gesene lyuyng ay where aboute, Clothes and mete, and beddyng new unfiled, t. JIRT, Expl. "jerk." Wyne also and ale, she gaue without doubt. Fol. She's gi'en me mony a jirt an' fleg, Chron., 133, b. Sin I could striddle o'er a rig. 0. Fr. a in childbed en gesine, lying ; gesine, en Burns, in. 244. Diet. Trev. to be in couche, ges-ir, childbed ; geeante, a in To v. n. To woman childbed ; L. B. gesina, JISK, caper ; jiskin, capering, puerperium. Berwicks. Promisit ut faceret concedere uxori suae, cum a sua gesina'levaret. Inventar. Eccles. Noviom., A. 1419, to Dan. hiask-er, tumble, to ruffle, from Mask, joule, ap. Du Cange. a tatter or or rag ; rather allied to A.-S. ge-hysc-an, aubaannare, to scorn, to hold up othera to deriaion. JO, JOE, Joy, s. 1. A sweetheart, whether male or female, S. JISP, s. There's no a broken jisp in it, a term He was my jo and heart's used with respect to clothes, as delight, denoting My handsome Gilderoy. article that the referred to is perfectly Ritson's S. Songs, ii. 25. whole, or has nothing worn or rent about Dear Roger, when your/o pits on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your thumb. it, S. Ramsay's Poems, ii. 71. The phrase seems borrowed from the weaving occu- 2. A term of affection and even pation. When, from any inequality in the yarn, there familiarity, is a sort of in the this is called where there is no of love gap woof, &jesp, S. pretence ; being Isl. hisco, oscito ; oscitatio, a geisp-a, geispe, q. hole, often used to a person of the same sex, S. a chink. If I mistake not, the S. word is also applied wald deir dochter to implements made of wood. Quhat thow, my Jenny? Jenny my joe, quhat dois thy daddy? Pink. S. P. 51. JIZZEN-BED, GIZZEN, . Child-bed. To Lyndsay, .R.,'ii. ' ' He can say Jo, and think it no ;" S. Prov. lie in jizzen, to lie in, to be on the straw, "That is, he can pretend kindness, where he has S. B. none." Kelly, p. 144. Within years less than half a dozen, It seems to be merely Fr. joye, joie, used in the same She made poor Maggy lie in gizzen, manner as man joie, as a term of endearment, equiva- When little Jack broke out of prison lent to darling, my love, &c. On good Yule-day. It accordingly was anciently written joy ; and had Forbes's Dominie 39. Depos'd, p. been used in S. so early as the reign of James I. The jizzen-bed wi' rantry leaves was sain'd, Than spak hir fallowis that hir kend ; And sik like things as the auld grannies kend. Be still, my joy, and greit not. Jean's wi' sa't and water washen paps clean, Peblis to the Play, st. 3. Eeed that her milk get wrang, fan it was green. You Carle (quod sho) my Joy, dois beinly dwell, Ross's Helenore, p. 13. And all prouision hes within him sell. This word occurs in 0. E. Jhon Hardyng, speaking Scotland's Lament, Fol. 6. of William the Conqueror, with rather more says, We find this term used by the Q. Regent, when she than is usual with him : spirit attempted to soothe the Gentlemen of the West of S. He then his lawe and alwaie peace proclaimed adhering to the Reformation, who were irritated be- Officers made in shire euery aboute, cause had been ordered to to the Border. And so held on to London they repair unreclaimed, "Thair was hard of the Where his he set the land nothing Queinis parte, but, justice throughout. ' what aillis ? Me menis The kyng of France thus scorned him out of doubt, My Joyis, my hairtis, yow no evill to nor to Preicheours : The That Kyng William in gesine had lien loug, yow, your Bischop- sail do no ar all And tyme hym war been kyrked, with good song. pis yow wrang, ye my luifing subjects." When he this hard, to Fraunce he went anone, Knox's Hist., p. 94. Joyes, MS. I. There to be he offred his candell I need that the transition to kirked, bright ; scarcely observe, joe thousand he A townes brent, as he did gone, was easy, the i being nearly lost in the Fr. mode of At them he the of Fraunce to praied king light pronouncing joie. His candle then, if that he goodly might, Whiche, at his kirkhale and purificacion, JOAN THOMSON'S MAN, a husband who To Mars he thought the time to make his oblacion. to the influence of his wife, S. Chron., FoL 129, b. yields V. KIRK, . "Better be John Thomson's Man than Ringand The is story differently told by Ranulph Higden, Dinn'a, or John Knox's." Kelly, p. 72. John ought but so as to determine the sense of the term used by undoubtedly to be Joan. Bingand Dinn is a play on Hardyng. the name Ninian Dun, pron. in S. Ringan Din. JOA [703] JOC

At used Joane Thornton is given as the rendering of the Jack, the Laird's brither, it a phrase regarding or even name of a game mentioned by Rabelais : Aux cro- one who is treated with very great familiarity, laue la coift'e in allusion to little to a quinolles madame. Urquhart, B. i., p. 97. rudeness ; the respect paid This to in heir. corresponds another used Rabelais ; younger son with the " phrase by comparison Croque-quenouille, he whose wife beats him with "He's only Jock, the Laird's brother;" S. Prov. a distaffe," Cotgr. "The Scottish lairds' concern and zeal for the stand- As far, however, as we can judge, from the tradi- ing and continuance of their families, makes the pro- tionary language concerning Joan Thomson, it would vision for their younger sons very small." Kelly, p. appear that she did not rule with a rod of iron, but 139. led her husband with a silken cord. For in the Pro- " 2. A name for the bull Gall. verb, she is represented as one who did not ring, i.e., ;" Encycl. reign, by means of din, or knocks or blows. In give " an allusion made to the same character, in the Ex- JOCKEY-COAT, s. A great coat, properly, pedition" of "the worthy Scots Regiment called one made of broad-cloth with wide sleeves, MacKeyes," the author, when illustrating the power S. corr. to ; A. Bor., Grose. of connubial affection in the example of Meleagcr's jouk-coat to wear exertion for the sake of his wife Cleopatra, evidently Evidently such a coat as jockeys were wont ; takes it for granted that Joan was a good wife. For as, for a similar reason, our fathers used to denominate he says : a great coat, of a different form, a hussar-coat. ' ' Here it some will he was John Of General Dalziel it is said may be, alleage, " ; Thomson's man. I answer, it was all one, if shee was He was bred up very hardy from his youth, both in good : for all stories esteeme them happie, that can dyet and cloathing. He never wore boots, nor above live together man and wife without contention, strife, one coat, which was close to his body with close sleeves, never wore a orjarres, and so do I." Monro's Exped., P. il. p. 30. like those we call Jocky-coats. He since the murder Dunbar, as far as I have observed, is the first writer peruke ; nor did he shave his beard who uses this and he uses of Charles the First." Memoirs of Creich- proverbial phrase ; evidently King Capt. it in a favourable sense. When expressing his earnest ton, p. 100, Edit. 1731. wish that the King "war Johne Thomsoun's man," A. Bor. Jouk-coat, a great coat (Grose), is most pro- i.e., a husband like hers, as in this case he would not bably a corr. of Jockey-coat. be long "but" or without a "benefice;" he celebrates the benignity and compassion of the Queen, and evi- JOCKIE, s. 1. A diminutive from Jock; ex- views her as his advocate with his dently Majesty. pressive of familiarity or kindness, and For it micht in hurt no degr^, to lads and male That on so generally applied young [one], fair and giule as sche, Throw hir vertew sic worschip wan, servants of the lowest class, S. As vow to mak Johne Thomsounis man. " The tuik servandis with him, to witt, Jackie The mersy of that sweit raeik ros king of with ane vther secreit Suld saft I Hart, ane yeaman the stable, yow thairtill, suppois ; &c. and and him haistilie to Haiti. Poems, i. 120, 121. servand, lap vpoun hors, sped Stirling." Pitscottie's Cron., p. 332. To JOATER, v, n. To wade in mire, Upp. Clydes. 2. A name formerly given in S. to a strolling minstrel. JOATREL, s. One who wades in mire, ibid. "Bards at last into common ballad A.-S. gfot-an, fundere, or its kindred term yint-a, degenerated and themselves to id.; also, fluere, manare. But V. JOTTERM. makers, gave up making mystical rhymes, and to magic and necromancy. Yet they did JOB, s. A prickle, S. not seem to wear out, but were known of late years under the name of Jockies, who went about begging, JOBBIE, adj. Prickly, S. and used to recite the slughorns of most of the true Serenius views stab " 'E.job, "a sudden with a sharp ancient surnames of Scotland. Spottiswoode's MS. instrument," as allied to Germ, heib, ictus, a stroke. Law Diet. .7OBLET, s. Err. for DOUBLET. JOCKLANDY, s. A foolish destructive The wardraipper of Venus' hour To he is als gift" ajoblet doure, person, Ayrs. As it war off ane fnte syd frog. "I'm wearying to tell him o' the sin, sorrow, and Dunbar, Maitland Poems, p. 90. rookit iniquity of allowing me, his aged parent, to be I had thrown out a conjecture, vo. Wardraipper, o' plack and bawbee by twa glaikit joclclandya that and have since found it to be confirmed. it were them- dinna care what they burn, e'en though "Joblet is a typographical error for doublet, which selves." The Entail, iii. 102. V. JOCKY-LANDY. is in the MS. It was occasioned by a blot in the copy, and escaped the editor's correction." Ibid., N. 408. [JOCK-NEEDLE-JOCK-PREEN. To to fast JOB-TROOT, s. The same with Jog-trot; play Jock-needle-Jock-preen, play and apparently corr. from it. and loose, Banffs.] " You that keeps only your old job-troot, and does JOCK-STARTLE-A-STOBIE, *. The not mend your pace, you will not wone at soul-con- the firmation. There is a whine old job-troot ministers exhalations arising from ground dur- a whine old among us, job-troot professors ; they have Roxb. ing warm weather, ; Summercouts, their own pace, and faster they will not go." Serm. S. B.; a which by Mich. Bruce, printed 1709, p. 15. synon. evidently compound has had some ludicrous origin. JOCK, JOK, s. 1. The familiar abbreviation " of the S. s. name John, Jok Ranik," i. e., JOCK-TE-LEEAR, A vulgar cant term John Renwick v. 393. for a small Jock the ; Acts, iii., p. almanack, q. (or John) JOG [704] JOH

from the loose in re- s. act of liar, prognostications JOGGLE, The jogging, the reeling to it gard weather which generally contains, of a carriage, S. " And then the carlin, she grippit wi' me like grim death, at every joggle the coach gied." Sir A. Wylie, s. S. JOCKTELEG, A folding knife, ; joek- ii. 5, 6. is sometimes used in talegs, A. Bor. Joggle the same sense, E. Teut. from schockel-en, vacillare, schock-en, to shake ; Su.-G. An' gif the custoc's sweet or sour, skak-a, id. Some derive from Isl. con- Wi' jocktelegs they taste them. joggle jack-a, tinue movere, Sw. V. Seren. Burns, iii. 127. juck-a, agitari. Tradition ascribes to Ja. VI. a of his ver- display [JoGGLiE, adj. Unsteady, weak, tottering, nacular language, that, in all its circumstances, is not very credible. After he had gone to England, it is Clydes., Banffs.] said, he boasted to some of his courtiers, that he would JOG-TROT, s. 1. A slow motion on horse- repeat a sentence which none of them could understand. S. also corr. Calling one of his stable-boys, he said to him; "Callan, back, ; dog-trot. hae, there's threttie pennies, gae wa, and buy me a 2. Metaph. used to denote that particular jockteleg ; and gin ye byde, I'll gang to the bougars of mode of to which the house, and tak a caber, and reesle your riggin wi't." operation one pertina- a knife. The of " "Jockteleg, folding etymology this ciously adheres. He'll no be driven aff word remained unknown till not many years ago, that his ain an jogg-trott? S. old knife was found, having this inscription, Jacques ' ' de Liege, the name of the cutler. Thus it is in exact From jog, to move by succussation ;" Johns. analogy with Andrea diFerrara." Spec, of a Glossary by Lord Hailes. JOHNIE-LINDSAY, . A game among I can say nothing as to the fact of such a knife being young people, Roxb. found but have heard this ; always inscription given PYOT'S DAY. The as the reason of the name. "Liege," says Grose, [JOHNIE TERM "formerly supplied Scotland with cutlery." Prov. day after the Day of Judgment. A some- what profane form of never and for ever, JOCKY-LANDY, s. A nursery term, de- Banffs.] a or noting lighted stick, wisp, any thing JOIINNY-STAN'-STILL, . A scare-crow, as blazing ; very improperly given a play- Ayrs. to S. B. thing children, JOHN-O'-GROT'S BUCKLE. Cypraeape- It seems to be the same with E. Jack-a-hnt, Fr. diculus. V. BUCKIE. de Bovffon carneval ; and to have its origin from the circumstance of people going about at that season, in a JOHN'S (St.) NUTT. Two nuts growing Bacchanalian way, torches or carrying lighted wisps. together from the same stalk, Fife. "A Jack-a-Lent was a puppet, formerly thrown a list of articles for at, in our own country, in Lent, like Shrove-Cocks." Among necessary incantation, mention is made of Brand's Pop. Antiq., i. 85. Sand Jhone's nutt, and the for'e levit claver. How like a Jack-a-Lent St. Poems Sixteenth He stands, for boys to spend their Shrovetide throws, Legend Bp. Androis, Cent., p. 318. Or like a puppit made to frighten crows ! I had supposed that nutt was most probably by mistake Quarles, Shepherd's Oracles, 4to, p. 88. for wurt, and the plant meant, that called both in S. and E., St. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum, Linn. JOGGED, part. pa. Confined in the Juggs, Its Sw. name is the same, Johannis-oert. I am an instrument of punishment resembling informed, however, that in Dumfries-shire, to this day, young people are very happy if they can the pillory. procure two nuts which grow together in one husk. "In case servants be found fugative frae their This they call, but for what reason is not known, a St. the Baillie of the masters, paroch whereout of he has John's nut. The reason assigned for the regard paid fled shall cause him be at the a nut of jogged church, upon to this description, is, that it secures against from in Sunday, 8 the morning till 12 hours at noon." the power of witchcraft. With this view, young A. Act 1632, Barry's Orkney, App. p. 474. people often carry one about with them. The same in Perthshire. There it is To superstition prevails believed, JOGILL, JOGGLE, v. a. To jog, to that a witch, who is proof against lead, may be shot a St. John's shake from one side to another, S. by nut. An honourable and learned friend has remarked to The ilk shaft stak in his anone corps ; me on this phrase, that as a lucken hand or a lucken toe Pallas it jogillit, and furth drew in hye. is supposed to bode good luck, so a St. John's nut Doug. Virgil, 329, 45. may have been connected with the idea of incantation. I marvel muckle fou that I, From what has formerly been said, in regard to S&ejnggl't wi' adversity the herb called St. John's Wort, it that the Shou'd e'er attempt to sing. appears worthy, whose name it bears, had been viewed as Tarras's Poems, p. 31. over witchcraft. Dr. to shake North." Grose. having peculiar power Leyden, "Joggle, gently ; of the charms confided in the speaking" by vulgar, : The author recollects a To JOGGLE, v. n. To move in an says popular rhyme, sup- unsteady posed to be addressed to a young woman by the or S. vacillating way, devil, who attempted to seduce her in the shape of a handsome man : Joggling at each wench's side, her joe young Cracks many a rustic joke, his pow'r of wit to show. Gin ye wish to be leman mine, Anster Fair, C. ii., st. 22. Lay off the St John's wart, and the vervine. JOH [706] JOO

By his repugnance to these sacred plants, his mistress JOLSTER, a. A mixture, a hodge-podge, a discovered the cloven ii. foot." Minstrelsy Border, of Ettr. For. 405. quantity ill-prepared victuals, The very same idea must have prevailed in Sweden. Perhaps originally applied to sores; A.-S. geci ' ' For one of the names to the virus, sanies, tabum ; black, corrupt, filthy matter given Hypcricum perfora- " or turn is Fuga dafmonum. Linn. Fl. Suec., N. 680. bloud ; Somner. ' ' The superstitious in Scotland carry this plant of about them as a charm against the dire effects of witch- JONET, JONETE, . The ancient form craft and enchantment. also or They cure, fancy they the name Janet in S. Act. Dom. Cone., p. cure their ropy milk, which they suppose to be under col. some this herb into 273, 1. malignant influence, by putting it, " and milking afresh upon it." Lightfoot's Flora Scot., I Janet Eyne, relict, executrix, and only intromis- p. 417. satrix with the goods and gear of umquhile Michael A. Blue JOHNSTON'S RIBBAND. V. RIB- M'Quhan, Burgos of Edinburgh," &c. 1545, (St.) Blanket, p. 32. BAND. [JONET, *. A Spanish horse, Fr. genette, JOHN THOMSON'S MAN. V. JOAN. Lyndsay, Test. Sq. Meldrum, 1. 1711.] s. A word out a word or JOINT, of joint, s. kind of JONETTE, A lily. expression that is in any respect, improper So pleasant to behold ; whether as approaching to profanity or to The plumys eke like to the Sourejonettis, And other of like to the floure S. schap, jonettii. indelicacy, K. Quair, ii. 28. The origin of this is obvious. " metaph. phrase Fr. jaulnetle, caltha palustris ; Teut. jannette, jen- nette, narcissus, lychnis silvcstris ;" Gl. Sibb. To JOIS, JOYS, los, v. a. To enjoy, to possess. [Fr. jaulnet d'eau, "the yellow water Lillie, or water The outworne dait of mony yeris, Rose ;" Cotgr.] Euuys that I sould jots or bruke empire. Doug. Virgil, 260, 46. JONNETTIS, JENNETTIS, s. pi. The skins The hellis Godiles at her will iosing or fur of the weasel. Hir promys, qulnlk sho hecht for to fulfil. black-spotted Spanish Doug. Virgil, 226, 40. "Item, ane gowne of claith of gold, fresit with Fr. id. jou-ir, gold and silvir, lynit with blak jonettis, furaist with hornis of gold." Inventories, A. 1539, p. 32. s. pi. loved ones. V. " [JOIS, Darlings, Jo.] Item, ane pair of the like slevis of jennettis, with the bord of the same." Ibid., p. 128. JOKE-FELLOW, . One treated as an Jenett seems the proper orthography, from Fr. geneile, or as an intimate S. equal, acquaintance, which not only signifies a Spanish horse, but a "kind "I dinna understand a' this wark about Martha of weesell, black -spotted, and bred in Spaine ;" Cotgr. been Docken's oye. That English lord and his leddy mak This sense of the term seems to have entirely overlooked the learned of the Diet. Trev. him joke-fellow wi' themselves." Sir A. Wylie, iii. 197. by compilers One admitted to such familiarity with others that he is allowed to crack his jokes with them. JOOKIE, *. A slight inclination to one side, the Ayrs. JOKE-FELLOW-LIKE, adj. Having ap- " She was nae far wrang, since ye did sae, to tak pearance of equality and intimacy, S. a wee jookie her ain gait too." Sir A. Wylie, ii. 9. "He took liberties with his great Royal Highness V. JOUK, v. and . the Duke of Clarence, shaking hands with him in a joke-fellow-like manner, and poking and kittling him JOOKERIE, s. Underhand dealing, trickery, in the ribs with his fore-finger." The Steam^Boat, S. V. JOUKRIE. p. 250. " I was so displeased by thejookerie of the bailie, that had no on affairs till JOKIE, adj. Jocular, fond of a joke, as, we correspondence public " long after." The Provost, p. 38. He's a fine jokie man," S.

JOOKERY-COOKERY, s. Artful ; JOKIE, s. A diminutive from Jock, Joke, management " the of serving-up, or cooking, in an the abbrev. of John. Jokie Wilson ;" q. power Acts 390. artful way, Ayrs. iii., p. " Noo, as ye're acquaint wi' a' the jookery-cookfry JOKUL, adv. Expressive of assent, yes, sir, of newsmaking, I thought that aiblins ye're in a capa- Shetl. city to throw some light on the subject." Sir A. i. 182. " ' Wylie, 'Here, Laurie, bring up the vifda.' Jokul, jokul !' could be more evident than that there "Nothing " was Laurence's joyful answer." Pirate, iii. 48. " was some jookerie-cookerie in this affair. The Provost, sir a Norse still Jokul, Yes, ; expression in com- 112. mon use." N. p. The first of the word be are not part may from Dan. Su.-G. [JOOR, s. pi. Cattle that housed, or to affirm JO; j, yes, jack-a, ; [jakord, consent, pro- Isl. deer or wild Shetl. ; dyr, animals.] mise, affirmation.] [To JOOT, v. n. To tipple frequently, Shetl. JOLLOCK, adj. Jolly, fat, healthy, and V. JUTE.] hearty;" Gall. Encycl.; obviously a mere corr. of the E. word. . A [JooT, tippler, ibid.]' VOL. n. R 4 JOR [700] JOR

JORDELOO. A cry which servants in the I find, however, in Kilian's list of Foreign Words, to his tunica stories in after ten appended Etymologicum, Jormy, sagum, higher Edinburgh give, tunica sine mauicis militaris, ; vulgo (jiornea. o'clock at night, when they throw their the JORNEYE, JORNAY, JOWRNE', s. 1. Day's dirty water, &c., from windows ; hence or of work done in one also used to denote the contents of the ves- work, part day. " This is first I sail end the same the sel. my jornay, morne." Lett. Buchanan's Detect., G. 7. Fr. Feau, save from the water. gardez q. yourselves This Scliyre Anton in batale qwyte "A friend that the is Gare literary suggests origin Cesare August discumfyte : ds I'eau. Fr. gare, indeed, is a terra used to give And for that/own^ dwne that day warning; as Gare le heurt, "the voice of them that That moneth wes cald August ay. drive horned beasts, Warre homes ;" Cotgr. Wyntown, ix. 12, 55. Smollet, in his humourous but profane Adventures 2. Battle on an or of H. Clinker, writes Gardy loo. fought appointed day ; "At ten o'clock at night the whole cargo is flung battle, fight, in general. out of a back window that looks into some street or I the beseik, thou mychty Hercules, and the maid calls loo to the lane, Gardy passengers." Assist to me, cum iu my help in hy, To performe this excellent first iorneye, JORE, s. 1. A mixture; applied to things That Turuus in the dede thraw may me se. 23. in a semi-liquid state, Ettr. For. Dong. Virgil, 333, 3. Single combat. 2. A mire, a slough, ibid. With the Lord of the Wellis he Thoucht til have dwne thare a.jowrni, Tout, schorre, alluvies ; A.-S. gor, fimus, lutum, laetamen. For bayth thai ware be certane taylyh^ Oblyst to do thare that deide, sawf faylyhe. Swa a-pon the sext s. "The noise of broken ewyn day JORGLE, bones;" Of that moneth that we call May, Gall. Encycl. Thai ilk forsayd Lordis tway, On hors ane agane othir ran, This would seem to be a dimin. from Jarg, to make As thare taylyhe had ordanyd than. a grating noise. Wyntown, ix. 11, 14. " JORINKER, s. A bird of the titmouse 4. Warlike enterprise or expedition. species ;" Gall. Encycl. It is said to be Lang tyme eftir in Brucis weris he haid, On Inglissmen mono gud iorne maid. named from its cry. Wallace, iu. 50, MS. He trettit him faire To JORK, v. n. To make a noise. wyth prayere, grating That he wald wyth his power be hale, V. CHIRK, CHORK. Jork is the pron. of Wyth hym in timtjourne be. W. Loth. Wynlmon, ix. 27, 279. It is used in the same sense by 0. E. writers. Aclelwolf his fader saued at that ilk JORNAT, JOURNAIT, JOURXAYIT, part. pa. iorne, & Ethelbert in the felde his fader lete he to se, Summoned appear in court on a parti- How Dardau for his lance doun to the erth went. cular day. S. Briinne, p. 18. Aucht iornes he wan. " The said in reverend fathyr Code Gawane bischop Ibid. of Abirdene, and his forspeker Maister Alex' Haye Fr. journee signifies both a day's work, and a battle, persoune of Turreff, askit process, and allegit because iromjour, Ital. tfwrno, a day. As Lat. dies, id. is the the said Androw Elphinstoun lies beiie lauchfullie pro- root of these words, whence diurn-us, softened to cest, jornat and summond to this court as to the last yiorn-o ; Rudd. has properly observed, that they are court continuit fra the ferd court of his process, and used, like dies, for any celebrated battle fought on a not comperit, therfor he suld be decernit to hef for- particular day. faltit and tyut til him his ourlord the said tennendry for his Chart. Aberd. MS., 153. " contumacy." p. JORRAM, JORAM, JORUM, s. 1. Properly Beand lauchfullie procest and jornat be the said " a slow and reverend and his to schaw his boat-song, melancholy. ffathyr bailyies haldyng, " &c. Ibid. Our boat's crew were islanders, who gave a speci- of "James lord of Abernethy tharapon askit a not, & men marine music, called in the Erse, Jorrams : protestit it sulde turne him to na preiudice quhill he these songs, when well composed, are intended to wer ordourly journayit." Act. Cone., A. 1493, p. 302. regulate the strokes of the oars, and recall to mind the L. B. adjornare, diem dicere alicui, citare, in jus customs of classical days. But in modern times they vocare is are in the ; Du Cange. Jornat merely the abbreviation generally sung couplets, whole crew joining in of the participle. chorus at certain intervals : the notes are commonly long, the airs solemn and slow, rarely chearful, it being for JORNAY, s. A military coat. impossible the oars to keep a quick time : the words generally have a turn, consonant to that of "Item, the body and lumbartis of anejornay of vel- religious the people." Pennant's Tour, 1772, p. 334. vott of the collour of seiche skin. Item, the bodie of "The jorram, or melancholy boat-song of the ane jornay of yallow, greyne, and purpour velvott. rowers, coming on the ear with softened and sweeter Memorandum the leif [remainder] of the kingis graces sound." Heart of Mid Lothian, iv. 193. jornals ar in Sanctandrois." Inventories, A. 1542, 99. p. " 2. Sometimes used with greater latitude, Ital. giornea, a soldier's or coat, military garment, less worn in honour's though with to denote a sake," Altieri ; from Lat. diurn-us, propriety, song I can find no proof that this term has been used in Fr. in chorus, although not a boat-song. JOS [707] JOT

" If the fools now think BO much to hear that sky- 3. To toss backwards or forwards with a heavy goat screaming, what would they think to hear Kate, jerking motion, ibid.] our little in the fold, or the girls sing a jorram dairy 1 at a Saxon and Gael, i. 169, 170. 1. or waulking." [JossiCHlN , part. pr. Shaking jerking ibid. 3. Improperly used to denote a drinking-\ violently, in S. 2. or a dull sound, ibid. or the liquor contained it, Hence, Having making heavy 3. Used also as an and as an Push about the Jorum is the name of an old ., adj., ibid.] * v. a. take short notes on Scottish Reel, or tune adapted to it. To JOT, To any to be extended S. It is supposed by an intelligent friend, well versed subject, afterwards, in Gaelic, that this term is instead of E. a tittle Moes- misapplied Most probably from jot, a point, ; which in that denotes a iurum, language exclusively G. jota, Gr. tiara, Heb. jod, the name of the smallest boat-song. letter in the alphabet.

JOSEPH, s. A kind of surtont, generally To JOT down, v. a. The same with To Jot, made of duffle and worn especially by fe- S. " males, in riding. It would not be altogether becoming of me to speak of the domestic effects which of the things, And now, my straggling locks many adjusted, which I have herein had in own Ami faithful Joseph brush 'd and dusted, jotted down, my The 254. I sought, but could not find, alas ! family." Provost, p. Some consolation in the grass. s. short minute of to Mrs. Grant's Poems, p. 179. JOTTIXO, A any thing, afterwards more "Joseph, a woman's great coat;" Grose's Class. be more fully written ; Diet. in short S. generally pi. jottings, notes, "Here his Lordship read the judgment, and the To JOSS, v. a. To justle, Aberd. paper called Jottimjs respecting John Dalgleish's settlement." Caled. Merc., Mar. 29, 1823. Joss, s. The act of justling, a justle, ibid. "A jotting, or rough sketch, of part of the goods As E. justle is derived from Fr. juster, jonst-er, to made alleged to have been packed into the boxes was to tilt, Jogs retains more of the form, the just, original on the last page of the pursuer's day book. That no t softened into s. O. Fr. denotes a being merely joate entry of the goods was made in the pursuer's books, tournament. traces the Fr. word to Lat. " Roquefort excepting the jotting or statement before mentioned. because the combatants draw near to each juxta, Edin. Even. Cour., Jan. 8, 1821. other. "Tut, your honour; I'll make a slight jotting the it cost charter of in morn ; will but a resignation fa- s. 1. A shake, S. [JossLE, move, push, vorem ; and I'll hae it ready for the next term in iii. 356. 2. The act of one's a Exchequer." Waverley, making way through * . an occasional of crowd, ibid.] JOT, A job, piece work, Shirr. Gl., S. B.; light work of any [To JOSSLE, v. a. and n. 1. To shake, to [jots, kind, Banffs.] Isl. gaat, cura. totter, Banffs. JOT-ABOUT, v. n. To employ one's self in [To 2. To jostle, to make one's way a crowd, S.] used in light work ; part. pr. jottin-about, of also as a and as an [JOSSLE, adv. Roughly, by means pushing, ., adj., Banffs.] jostling, Banffs.] [To JOTTER, v. n. Same as to jot-about, but idleness in the worker, or meanness [JossLER, JOSSLE, s. 1. A big, rough, rude implies in the fellow, ibid. work, Banffs.] JOTTERIE, JOTTERAL, . 1. Odd, mean, or 2. A clumsy, rude cart or carriage, ibid.] dirty work, Ettr. For. [JosSLiN, JOSSLAN, part. pr. Used also as a 2. In composition it has nearly the same s., and as an adj.; in the latter sense it is sense with E. hack; as, a jotterie-horse, a often pron. jesslie."] all a one who horse of work ; jotterie-man, in the same manner Jotterie- [JosSLY, JOSSLIE, adj. Shaky, unsteady, is employed ; of such become frail.] wark, work every description, as does not belong to any regular [JOSSICH, s. LA dull, heavy blow, Banffs. especially servant, ibid. 2. A severe, fall, ibid. as heavy Teut. schol, ejectamentum ; originally denoting mean and work, like that of a scavenger. It 3. The dull sound made a blow or dirty by heavy may, however, be abbreviated from Lat. adjulor, em- fall, ibid.] as originally denoting ono who was occasionally ployed as an assistant to others, whatever was the v. a. and n. ]. To dash with [To JossiCH, description of the work. It is, accordingly, of very deeds. O. Fr. violence, ibid. frequent occurrence in old adjutoire, the ajuetoire, aid. V. JOATER, which seems originally 2. To shake violently, ibid. same. JOT [708] JOTI

Used also as a and 4. to [JoiTKRiN, part. pr. s., To shift, act hypocritically or deceitfully, as an adj. Banffs.] S. "Sa to the end To JOTTLE, v. n. To be ye may perseueir of your lyfe, apparently diligent without sclander to euer and to be your professiouu, approuing yet doing nothing, busy about the and in all " treuth, haitting impietie persounis, not trifles He's on to nor for the ; as, jottlin ;" Linlithg. leaning warldy wisdome, jouking plesure of greit men in the warld." Davidsoue's Commenda- JOTTLER, s. An inferior servant of all work, tioun of Vprichtnes, Dedic. Loth. Yit bauldly be his baner he abaid. And did not iouk an ioit from vprichtnes. This office was very common in the families of far- Ibid., st. 19. mers. He is also denominated the jottling man, ibid. " I saw no of the swelled that Lord He redds the barns, and goes errands. symptoms legs L , that jooking man, about, for she It has been conjectured that the term may be from spoke skippit up the steps like a lassie." 274. E. jot, q. a small matter. But to me it rather seems Ayrs. Legatees, p. a corruption of Scutler. 5. To yield to any present evil, by making the JOUOATTE, JOUCAT, s. A measure men- best of it, S. tioned in our old Laws. The term is now Hence the proverbial phrase borrowed from the used as with situation of one exposed to a sea; and synon. gill, or the fourth part rough "Jouk, let the jaw gae over." Ramsay's S. Prov., p. 43. of an E. pint, Loth. " Sae we had better jook, until the jaw Decemis and ordanis the Firlot to be augmented ; Gang o'er our heads, than stand afor't and fa'. and to nine-tene conteine, pintes and twa joucattes." Ross's Helenore, p. 90. Acts Ja. VI., 1587, c. 114, Murray. Rudd. has given various etymological conjectures, "Be just calculation and the samin comptrolment, but has not hit on the origin, which is certainly Germ. extended to 19 and Ibid. pintes, ajucat." zuck-en, to shrink or shrug, in order to ward off a blow. Perhaps allied to E. jugg, Dan. jugge, urna. Su.-G. seems duk-a, deprimere, radically allied ; as Aa L. B. gaitgett-um denoted the tribute paid for well as to Belg. duyk-en, stoop ; Teut. duyck-en, verti- gauging a cask of wine, and also the measure required cem demittere submittere capitis ; se, suggredi, subsid- in the cask, it seems to have been latterly transferred abscoudere se Kilian. ere, ; Perhaps we may add, to the vessel itself, and at to have been length Su.-G. swig-a, loco cedere, swigt-a, vacillare, ut solent restricted to one of a small size. Isl. loco cessura ; sweig-ia, incurvare. It be observed that this word in is s. sort of evi- may Ang. gener- JOUF, A bed-gown, Dumfr. ; ally pronounced as if the initial letter were d, like duke dently a variation of Jupe, q. v. E. V. JOWK. " From the scone cap, to the jewelled bonnet from s. 1. the hoddan-gray joufs, to the silken gown, have I JOUK, JUIK, An evasive motion of the ever seen song cherished and esteemed." Blackw. body, S. Mag., Dec. 1821, p. 322. In cirkillis wide sche draue hym on the bent, With ane cours and mony jouk about ; JOUGS, s. pi. An instrument of about, punishment; Quhare ever sche fled sche followis him in and out. a sort of V. JUGGS. pillory. Doug. Virgil, 389, 27. Cyrus, Virgil. s. JOUGS, pi. Bad liquors, S. B. synon. Germ, zucken, a convulsive motion. Jute, v. 2. A bow, a genuflexion, used contemptuously, To JOUK, JOWK, JOOK, v. n. I. To incline to denote the mummeries of the Church of the body forwards with a quick motion, in Rome. order to avoid a all stroke or any injury, S. For yomjoukis and your nods, Your harts is hard as stone. Syne hynt Eneas ane perrelhis lance in hand, any 25. And it addressis fer furth on the land, Spec. Godly Ball., p. ane The term is also To Magus, that subtell was and sle, used, without the idea of ridicule, An

Fouro hundreth merkis ho gart him get him, JOUNDIE, JUNDIE, s. A push with the el- For tackis of Id rk is he hecht to set liiiu, S. And syne set vther men the teindis. bow, St. Poems Sixteenth 339. " Legend Bp. Androis, Cent., p. If a man's gaun down the brae, ilk anc gi'es him a jundie ;" S. 41. To JOUK, JEUK, v. a. 1. To evade, to elude, Ramsay's Prov., p. s. In ludicrous lan- to shift off, especially by artful means, S. JOURDAN, JORDAN, Fain wad lie the bargain jeuket guage, a chamber-pot, S. But his honour was at stake. The word is used by Chaucer, in an address to a Ranken's Poems, p. 38. medical gentleman. And eke and [2. To play the truant, Bauffs.] thyn urinals, thy jordanet, Thin ypocras, and eke thy galianes. s. ibid. Pardoner's Prol, v. 12239. [JOUK-THE-SQUEEL, A truant, ; called also a Tyrwhitt has the following Note. "This word is in jouker^\ Jonlanfs Walsingham, p. 288. Duae ollae, quas JOUKER, s. A dissembler, one who acts de- vocamus, ad ejus collum colligantur. This is part of the punishment of a pretended P/tiuicux et axtrolor/us, ceitfully. who had deceived the people by a false prediction. Thair ioukers durst not thair kyith cure, Hollinshed calls them two jorden pots, p. 440." For feir of in the fasting Fratour, We find the same word used by Langland as a per- And tynsall of the charge thay bure. sonal appellation. Describing a gluttonous preist, he Davidsones Schorl Discurs, st. 4. says : [JOUKIN, part. pr. Playing truant; used I shall iangle to thys Jurdan with hys iuste wombe, To tel me what penaunce is, of which he preched rathe. also as a *., ibid.] P. Ploughman, F. 65, b. Both Skinner and Junius render it a JOUKING, JOWKING, S. 1. Shifting, change by matula, chamberpot, deriving it from A.-S. r/or, stercus, fimus, of place, S. and den, cubile, q. a receptacle of filth. Langland uses of this Eunoyit deray, it metaph. as Plautus does matula, to denote a silly This irksum trasing, jowkina, and delay, coxcomb. Full in thingis reuoluit he thocht ; mony Juste cannot be understood in its common significa- Syne on that were man ruschit he in tene. tion. For it conveys an idea very different. It is Doug. Virgil, 352, 40. most probably allied to Isl. istur, Su.-G. ister-buh. Dan. 2. Artful conduct, dissimulation, S. inter-bug, paunch, fat-guts. Hence the phrase, ajouking lown, a deceitful fellow; JOURNAIT, part. pa. V. JORNAT. also applied to one who is sycophantish and addicted ferd court to dissimulation, S. Germ, zucker, one who starts back. "Thai war lauchfully journait to the before hir bailye, and thar wardit, & fundin that thai s. JOUKRIE, Deceit. had na ry'. to the tak of the said landis." Act. Audit., A. 75. "Thairfor keip your promes, and pretex na ioukrie 1478, p. be my Lorde of Cassillis writing." Kessoniug betuix adv. Crosraguell and J. Knox, B. iii. b. JOURNELLIE, Daily, continually, - progressively. JOUKKY JOUCKRY - PAUCKRY, 8. PAWKRY, All men beginnis for till die, Trick, S. The day of then- natiuitie : deception, juggling, ' And journellie they do proceid, The sin o" Nauplius, Till Atropus cut the fatell threid. Mair useless na himsell, Lyndsay's Warkis, 1592, p. 9. Hisjouchry-pauckry finding out, To weir did him compell. Fr. journalier, daily, continual. V. JORSEYB. Poems in the Buchan Dialect, p. 5. V. JOWK. To JOW, v. n. 1. To move from side to side to to to forward ; jow on, jog on, move To JOUL, JOWL, v. n. To toll, South of S. in a slow and rocking way, S. leeze me on thee, winsome bell, Thou cantie joulin thing, 2. To ring or toll. The bell jaws or is jowin, Tliou wafts alang thy friendly knell, bell S. it also Swift on the zephyr's wing. the tolls, ; Sibb. writes jowl. A. Scott's 143. Poems, p. Now clinkumbell, wi' ratlin tow, V. Jow. Begins to jow and croon. Sums, ill 38. To JOUNDIE, JUNDIE, v. a. To jog with The storm was loud ; in Oran-kirk the elbow, S. junnie, S. B. The bells theyjoto'd and rang. Jamieson's I 232. Your fump'ring waken'd me, Popul. Sail., And I you joundy'd, that ye might be free. The v. is sometimes used with the prep., out being Moss's Hdenore, p. 43. added, S. V. HOG-SHOUTER. "And if sae should be that this be sae, if you'll just servant out the bell in the Bailey mentions shunt as an E. word, signifying to gar your jow great tower, there's and twa little shove. Phillips calls it "a country-word," as thus me, my brothers, and Davie of used. Both seem allied to Isl. skund-a, festinus eo the Stenhouse, will be wi' you wi' a' the power we can in the of a Tales praeccps, med skynde, praecipitanter. Sw. skynd-a, mak, snapping flint." of my Land- i. 50. (pron. ekunda) signifies not only to hasten, but to push lord, forward. Jundie, indeed, often means, to one in jog 3. To Jow in. To be in that mode consequence of quick motion in passing. It may have rung quick primarily denoted celerity of motion. V. letter J. which is meant to intimate that the ringing JOW [710] JOW

is near a close, or that the meeting thus 2. A single stroke in the tolling of a bell, S. called is to be opened without delay, S. She had not gane a mile but twa,

When she heard the deid-bell knellan ; fare well for there is the council-bell "Now, ye ; And everye jono the deid-bell geid, in if clinking earnest ; and I am not there before it Cried, Wae to Barbara Allan. in, Bailie Laurie will be some of his man- Sir John Graeme, Percy's Reliques, iii. 110. jows " trying oeuvres. Redgauntlet, ii. 226. 3. The dashing of a wave on the shore, or of 4. To roll; applied to the violent motion of a water on a tub, Lanarks. river when in or to the waves of the flood, 4. The wave thus dashed, ibid. S, sea, Wi' swash an' swow, the angry jmo Cam lashan' doun the braes. "He kens weel wha feeds him and deeds aneugh Marmaiden 1820. of Clyde, Edin. Mag. , May, him, and keeps a' tight thack and rape when his coble is awa' in the fallow." jawing Firth, poor Antiquary, Jowixo, s. The tolling of a large bell, S. ii. 281. "After the said battle of Flodden Field, fought Kimmer can sit an' ' say, E'en be't sae,' 9th September, 1513, on the news coming to Edinburgh An' red the Nith atween an' brae jowes banking ; next day, the magistrates gave out a proclamation, Kimmer can cast owre it her an' cantraips spells, that the inhabitants were to get ready their fensabill An' feerie, can cross it in twa braid cockle shells. geir and waponnis for weir, and appear before them at Remains of Nithsdale Song, p. 60. thejowiny of the common Tolbooth-6fH." Gall. Encycl. "Jowes, moves violently ;" N. ibid. s. "We say of the sea, in a stormy day, that the jaws JOW, A juggler. of it are coming jawing in, rolling on the rocks and In Scotland than, the narrest way, Gall. He his till roaring." Encycl., vo. Jaw. come, cunning assay ; It has been justly observed, that this terra conveys The Jow was of a grit engyne, And was of a complex idea to the mind, not merely that of sound, generit gyans. Poems, st. 4. but of sound accompanied with a swinging or waving Dunbar, Bannatyne p. 19, motion. V. Mactaggart, in vo. Lord Hailes is certainly right in viewing the word in this sense is Perhaps from Teut. schuyv-en, loco movere, pellere, ; especially as it said, with respect to his volvere as to a skill in ; applied bell, originally denoting the alchemy of it. v. a. motion V. In pottingry he wrocht grit pyne. " It would also seem, that Queue of Jowis, Bann. v. a. To Jow, 1. To move, S. B. MS., p. 136, means Queen of magicians," or rather, "of in his Sae, hear me, lass, ye mauna think impostors." Kennedy, Flyting, closely connects and lojout me wi' the sight o' chink. jow jugglour. Shirrefs' Poems, p. 355. Judas, Jow, Jugglour, Lollard lawreat. St. 35, Edin. edit. 1508. 2. To from a vessel its This seems formed from Fr. to to spill hy making liquid jou-er, play ; also, contents move from side to side, Upp. counterfeit the gestures of another. Jouer de passe- Lanarks. passe, to juggle. The Fr. word is perhaps radically allied to Teut. guych, sanna, irrisio. Perhaps a provincial pron. of the E. v. to Jaw. This s. Accts. L. H. might seem probable from the use of Jow for Jaw, a [JOWALIS, pi. Jewels, wave. Treasurer, Vol. I., p. 79, Dickson.] " 3. To or toll a large hell the motion [JOWIS. V. DICT.] ring " by of its Gl. Sibb. tongue ; JOW-JOWEDANE-HEDED, adj. " It has been said that the word includes both the Bot owl, jow-jordane-heded jevels. swinging motion and the pealing sound of a large bell." Dunbar, Jfaitland Poems, p. 109. But this is not the In a general acceptation. steeple Jow seems to refer to the jowl, or side of the head, or which has become it is belfry, crazy through age, S. jow. The idea may be, that the persons described that dare not the lest should said, they rimj bells, they had heads formed like pots. V. JOUKDAN. the can bring down steeple ; they ovlyjow them ; i.e., they dare not give them the full swing. Sometimes a To JOWK, v. n. To juggle, to play tricks. bell is said to be jawed, when it receives only half the He could wirk that he windaris, quhat way wald ; so that the is made to strike on motion, tongue only Mak a gray gus a gold garland, one side. A of a bittill for a berne " lang spere bald, That all maneir of persouns have reddy their Nobis of mitschellis, and silver of sand, fensabill geir and waponnis for weir, and compeir Thus jowkit with the juxters the janglane Ja. thairwith to the said Pi'esidentis, at jowyng of the Uoulate, lit 12, MS. common bell, for the keiping and defenss of the town Mr. Pinkerton renders the term joked, and juxters, aganis any that wald invaid the samyn." Extract jokers. But according to the sense of the word joke Council Rec. Edin., A. 1516. in E., this is not the idea here Jowkit " expressed. evidently signifies, such tricks as are common " played 4. used. to jugglers. To ring ; improperly The word, as here used, may be radically the same said Freir thane in "The Alexander being Dundie, with Jouk, q. v. But although there is a very near without delay he returned to St. Androiss, caussit approximation in sense, I am rather inclined to view to the immediatlie jow bell, and to give significatioun it, because of the peculiar signification, as formed from that he wald preiche." Knox's Hist., p. 17. Germ, gauch, histrio, ludio, praestigiator. Teut. guych, irrisio a as sanna, ; Belg. guych, wry mouth. For, s. 1. Jow, A jog or push, Aberd. Wachter has observed, gauchel-en and jockl-en are JOW [711] JUM

differences of dialects. in merely Kilian, likemaniutr, JUGGS, Jouos, JOGGES, s.pl. Aii instru- Juxt<:r is evi- gives jovi/li'in- mid yiii/r/irttr as synon. ment of like the ; the dently formed from jotok, q. juwkxler. I hesitate punishment, pillory whether joukry-pawkry ought not to be immediately criminal being fastened to a wall or post, referred to this v. V. Jow. by an iron collar which surrounds his neck, JOWPOUN, s. A short cassock, Ft.jupon. S. " "Item, ane jowpoun of blak velvott lynit with gray. Of the same nature was a tall wooden post, with Item, ane \\t\icrjowpoun of blak velvott, broderrit with two cross arms affixed to it, and an iron collar, for en- the necks of called .sus- silk," Ac. Inventories, A. 1542, p. 84. circling offenders, the Jomji, pended by a chain at the side of it, which stood on a JOY, s. A darling. V. Jo. stone pedestal in a public part of the present town. It was called the 'front, and goods sold in the public JOYEUSITY, 8. Jollity, mirth. Fr. market were weighed at it." P. Hamilton, Lauarks. Statist. ii. 210. V. also xiv. N. " Ace., 370, They punish delinquents making them stand in "Such pastyme to tliame is bot joyeusity, quharein Jogijet, as they call them, Pillaries, (which in the our Queue was brocht Knox's Hist., p. 304. up." country churches are fixed to the two sides of the maine doore of the the halfe of JUCAT, 8. A measure. V. JOUCATE. Parish-Church) cutting their haire, shaving their beards," &c. Maxwell's Burthen of 3. JUDEN, 8. Gideon, the name of a man. Issachar, p. a a horse-collar. Belg. jut signifies yoke ; paardejuk, is the of the of S. ,This pron. South This be derived from Lat. a But may jug-urn, yoke. to what perhaps it is rather allied to Belg. kaak, Dan. kaay. JUDGMENT-LIKE, adj. Applied V. COCKSTULE. is supposed to be like a token of divine JUIKE, s. A trick. V. JOUK, . displeasure, S. " Even the godly may fall doited in the day when JUM, adj. Reserved, not affable, S. Hum- the of tiod is ready to pluck up a whole vengeance drum is nearly synon. land. When it is so, it's both a great sin, and looks It was and a token of it judgment-like. judgment-like s. A house built clumsily, and when Baruch and tho JUM, very to that poor land, godly godly an awkward with him in that time fell into that fault." Michael having appearance, Ayrs. Bruco's Lectures, &c., p. 11. This U undoubtedly the same with Jumze, which has "It would have been a judgment-like thing, had a merely received a plural form. V. JAM. bairn of Doctor Pringle's been sacrificed to Moloch, s. An old term for a like the victims of prelatic idolatry." Ayrs. Legatees, JUMCTURER, great p. 259. coat, Roxb. It seems allied to Fr. but for what To JUFFLE, v. n. To walk hastily, Ettr. joincture ; reason, whether from its various or as For. joinings, corresponding to the shape of the body, cannot be ascertained. from the same with E. to " Apparently origin Sliuffle, for to move with an irregular gait." Seren. renders the JUMKIN, part. pr. A provincialism Tumultuarie incedere which the sense E. word, ; gives jumping. Galloway. is more accurately. Teut. achuyfel-en expl. fugere ; An' there was nimble-finger'd Ben, also, fitilare. Wha frae the whins camejumkin. JUFFLER, S. Shuffler. V. HOMELTY- Davidson's Seasons, p. 72. JOMELTr. JUMM, *. That deep hollow sound, which comes from the rocks on the dur- JUFFLES, 8. pi. Old shoes worn with the sea-shore,

heels a storm ; caused the waves, and down, Edin. ; Bachles synon. ; q. what ing partly by the the one shuffles with. partly by hurling pebbles, striking rocks, Gall. V. Mactaggart. [JUGGIE, s. 1. A small jug, Banffs. To v. a. 1. To muddle, to foul, 2. The quantity of whisky punch made in a JUMMLE, S. juggic, ibid.] 2. To distract, to confound, to unhinge, S. JUGGINS, JUGGONS, . pi. Rags. Aw in juggins, all in rags, Fife, Ayrs. It is pro- 3. To disorder in mind, S. B. nounced hard, as if d were the initial Evidently the same with E. jumble, which Johnson, traces to Fr. to to satiate. letter. after Skinner, combler, fill, But as it has been observed that the letter j corresponds a of when I "Having washin', judge my feelings with Teut. sch, and sk of the Scandinavian nations, I saw them before the on standing upright boyns chairs, have no doubt that we are to look for the original term rubbin' the clothes to between their hands." juygom in Belg. sc/iommel-en, to stir, to shake. The primary Legatees, p. 265. Isl. whence E. Ayrs. term is probably skum, spuma, mucor, yearn, this being raised by stirring. [JuGGis, s. pi. Dregs, Lyndsay, Ans. to . "Sediment of Gall. Kingis Fly ting, 1. 55.] JUMMUE, ale;" Encvl. To JUGGLE, v. a. To shake, Gall. V. JOGILL. [JUJIMLIE, adj. Drumly, turbid, Clydes.] JUM [712] JUP

on frae to *To JUMP, v. n. To burst asunder, to part S&ejunnied day day, Wi' ne'er a blink o' fortune's ray, with force to a ; applied coat, gown, &c., To gar the muse tak wing. fcumfl Poems, p. 36. which is made too tight, S. B. "Junnie, to jog with the elbow ;" Gl. Shirrefs. JUMPABLES, or boddice, s.pl. Jumps, JUNDIE, JUNNIE, s. 1. A push with the worn Berwicks. V. JlMPS. by women, elbow, S. from Fr. what is meet or Perhaps jupe habille, q. " fit for the body. 2. Expl. a sudden impulse to one side," Dumfr. JUMPER, s. An iron punch for boring v. n. To move or rock from rocks, before blasting, Fife. To JUNDIE,

side to side ; like a vessel in which some JUMPIE, s. A sort of spencer, with a short liquid is contained, Ettr. For. The term tail, or skirt, worn by females, Loth. does not imply that any of it is spilt. I hae fourteen braw clews " Will raak baith a coat and a ; s. a jumpie JUNNICE, A jostle, blow," Ayrs. ; Gl. And o' for plenty plaiden trews, Picken. An ye get them I sanna scrimp ye. Patie over the Dale Old cam ; Song. This might rather appear to be a corr. of the pi., q. jundies. JUMPIN' JOCK, a. The merry-thought of To JUNE, v. a. To join. This is uniformly a fowl, made into a play-thing for children, used Bellenden, Sir D. by means of a double cord or thread passed by [also by through two holes, bored near the extremity Lyndsay.] of the limbs, betwixt which a short piece of JUNKY. A corr. of the name John, or stick is put, and twisted round till it gains rather of the diminutive Johnny. Ross's a spring. A piece of shoemaker's wax is Helenore, p. 126. then stuck on the centre of the bow, to To JUNNIE, v. a. V. JUNDIE. which the point of the stick is pressed until it table or JUNREL, s. A irregular mass of stone, adheres ; and when placed on a large or other hard matter, Gall. chair near a fire, the elasticity, by degrees, And now the castles ane and a" overcoming the adhesive quality of the wax, Our fathers thought wad never fa', causes it suddenly to spring up, Eoxb. In junrells, are dung down. Gall. Encyd., p. 246. s. The same with Har- JUMPIN'-ON-LID, JUNT, s. 1. A large piece of meat, bread, v. Aberd. ness-lid, q. or any thing else, S. perhaps originally q. a of meat. [JUMPIN'-TOW, s. A skipping rope, joint Twa good junls of beef, Mearns.] Drew whittles frae ilk sheath. Ramsay's Poems, i. 267. JUMZE, s. Applied to what is larger than A o' baith fat an' is " junt beef, fresh, ; a of a house," a necessary jumze large Aft in your pat be todlin' ! or one too for the use A. 67. empty house, large ; Douglas's Poems, p. " a of a &c. Lanarks. jumze cart," Upp. 2. Applied to a squat clumsy person, S. B. s. V. JUM, At last brave Jess, the foAgeljunt, Did had Dad's hands till the auld runt, JUNCTLY, JUNTLT, adv. Compactly. Wi' boiling broe, John Ploughman brunt. S. 26. On Settirday on to the bryg thai raid, Taylor's Poems, p. Off gud playne burd was weill and junctly maid. " 3. A of of kind ;" Wallace, vii. 1147, MS. large quantity liquid any v hundreth men in harnes rychtjuntly, Gall. Encycl. Thai wachet furth to mak a jeperty This seems merely an improper sense of the term At the south part, apou Scot and Dundass. strictly denoting solids. Wallace, xi. 857, MS. L. B. juncta or junctum, however, is used for some Q. conjunctly. kind of measure of salt ; Monastic. Anglic, ap. Du s. a Cange. JUNDIE, A large empty object ; as, a a a cart Lan- jundie of house, jundie of ; [JUNTFEFTMENT, s. Conjunct infeft- arks. meiit, giving joint possession of heritable Accts. L. H. Vol. To JUNDIE, JUNNIE, v. a. To jog with the property, Treasurer, I., p. to S. V. 5, Dickson.] elbow, justle, ; junnie, Aberd. JOUNDIE. JUPE, 8. LA kind of short mantle or I marvel muckle fou that I, cloak for a woman, S. The term in this Sae joggl't wi' adversity, Shou'd e'er sense is now obsolete. attempt to sing ; nearly Jtrp [713] .1 rs

2. A wide or great coat, S. Gl. Sibb. [JURDEN, s. A chamber-pot, Lyinkiv. Sat. Thrie Estaitis, 1.2478. V.JOUKDAH.] 3. Some sort of pelisse formerly worn by wo- men. JURE. Art and Jure. V. AUT. "In the old room found the beautiful witch " they s. to stock I hac nu [JURE, Applied ; as, Katharine, with the train of her snow-white joup a. I have not a drawn over her head, who looked as if taken in some jure," single animal, Shetl.] evil act by surprise." Brownie of Bodsbeck, p. 113. [JURENAY, s. A military coat, Ita\.giontr

. The act of or dis- First I pat on my jupea sae green, JURMUMMLE, crushing An' kilted coaties niy rarely ; figuring, Ettr. For. Awa I gned but stockings or shoon Amang the dews sae paerlie ! JURNAL'D, part. pa. Coagulated ; blood, Remains ofNilhsdale p. 64. Song, when allowed to into a Paerlie is used as for get coagulated mass, evidently E. pearly ; and was is said perhaps originally written pearlie. from not being stirred while cooling, "The lords o' Morison were bold and powerful, to be jurnal'd, Roxb. Synon. lappered. and their ladies wore mair riches on their grass green Junes than wad buy me a baron's land. Blackw. JURR, s. "The noise a small water-fall 516. Mag., Aug. 1820, p. makes, when it falls among loose stones or 7. Gall. Jupes, pi., a piece of flannel, used instead gravel;" Encycl. of stays, Ang., nearly in the same sense Allied perhaps to Teut. schorrf, ruptura, as resem- the noise made or rather with E. bling by breaking ; perhaps jumps. to " to Su.-G. storr-a, sonum stridulum edere ; grate, " to sound gratingly, to make a harsh noise ; Wideg. 8. A flannel shirt or jacket, Shetl. Fr. a a coat L. B. jupe, shepherd's frock, long ; To JUST, r. a. To adjust. jiipp-a, jop-a, I tat. t/iubb-a, giub-one, Hisp. jub-on; "That every pvmdlar be justed and made equal Teut. juype, Isl. Su.-G. hjup, tunica, from hyp-ia, with the : and that none have involvere, which seems the radical term. King's puudlar pound- lars or bismars of greater weight," &c. Acct., A. 473. JUPPERTY, JEPERTY, s. 1. A warlike 1628, Barry's Orkney, App. p. which both art and enterprise, implies [JUSTICE, JUSTIS, s. The chief judge in danger. criminal causes, called the king's justiciar, Me think wald ye blythly Accts. L. H. Treasurer, Vol. L, p. 66, 104, That men fand yow mmjeperly. How ye mycht our the wallis wyn. Dickson. Harbour, x. 639, MS. for There were at least two king's justiciars Scotland ; Thir nianere of renkis and iuppertyis of batall one for the districts north of the Forth, and one for

Ascaneus and broucht first in I talc. hantit, those south. The circuit court held by the justiciar 32. Doug. Virgil, 147, was called the justice-ayre, and the clerks of his court 2. or were called justice-clerks. V. Gl. Accts. L. H. Treas., A battle, conflict ; used in a general Vol. L] sense. POWER. The " of All hale the wyctory JUSTICIARY power judg- The Scottis had of ihisftipardy; ing in matters of life and death," S.; Gl. And few wes slayne of Scottis men. 1\'yntmrn, viii. 13. 167. Crookshanks. It has been viewed as formed from Fr. jeu perdu, <[. s. waistcoat with a lost JUSTICOAT, A sleeves, game. Tyrwhitt derives jupartie, as used by from S.B. Chaucer, Fr. jeu parti, properly a game in which the chances are even. Hence it was used to denote The tae groff gudeman began grnmmil, " uncertain or " s anything hazardous. Se nous les voyons Thuir's muck tae lead, thair bear tie hnmrnil ; a, jeu parti. Froissart, Vol. L, c. 234. V. Tyrwhitt The justicoat syne on he Hung, he Ids hazel in vo. An' up gat rung ; Then but he gat wi' hasty breishell '< laid on Hab a JUPSIE, and An' badger-reishell. adj. Expl. big-headed, dull, AfS. Poeva. a slothful having appearance," Orkn. Fr. jtist-au-corps, a close coat. VOL. II. S 4 JUS [714] JUT

be convict tharof, he sal be in sic lik JUSTIECOR, s. The same with Justicoat, passour punyst" maner as the Parl. Ja. South of S. principale trespassouris. II., A. Acts Ed. c. 3. " 1449, 1814, p. 35, Its a sight for sair een to see a gold lace justiecor L. B. justijicare, nou tarn justitiam exercere, quam in the Ha' garden sae late at e'en." Rob Roy, i. 132. judicio dato damnare. Si haec violaverit, ipsemet V. JUSTICOAT. justificabit. Cart. A. 1055, ap. Du Cange. 4. To used in a without To JUSTIFIE, v. a. 1. To punish with judge; general sense, immediate reference either to or death, in whatever way. acquittal " condemnation. He gart strik the heydis fra them of Capes that to " var in preson in Theane, and syne past to Calles That al regaliteis, that ar in the kingis handis now, ther gar execut justice on the remanent. He beand or sal be in tym to cum, be haldyn in ryalte, ande aryuit, he gart bryng furth the presoners to be iustljiet." iustifiit be the kingis Justice, quhil thai remayn in the Compl. S., 177, 178. kingis handis." Parl. Ja. II., A. 1449, Acts Ed. 1814, It seems to be used in the same sense by the Bishop p. 36, c. 13. of Dunkeld. This signifies, that causes pertaining to districts of folk of as it semit which ward or escheat fall into the And they war knawledge ; regality, by might Als into Venus full fast demit hands of the should be determined the Court they ; king, by Sayand, Yone lustie Court will stop or meit ordinary justices, and not according to the peculiar To this justifie bysniug quhilk blasphemit. privileges of regalities, as long as they continued in Police ii. 7. din. 1579. of Honour, edit., his hands. This may be viewed as a proof, even in ' ' Thir conspirators desired, at all times, to have this this early period of our history, of the great incon- IJuke [of Albany] put to death. There came a French venience found to arise from these distinguishing ship out of France hastily into Scotland with secret rights, as frequently obstructing the ordinary course of to the in the first writings Duke, who was then prison in the justice ; and as perhaps attempt, on the part castle of Edinburgh, to advertise him that it was con- of the crown, to get free from this public nuisance. cluded by the King and counsel, that he should bejusti- A stronger measure was adopted a few years after- Jied on a certain day, which was the day after the wards. " ship strake in the Road of Leith. Pitscottie, p. 83. "That all regaliteis that are now in the kingis "On the morrow this child was justify it in presence handis be annext to the rialte : And that in tyme to- of mony pepil." Bellend. Cron., Fol. 28, a. Multis cum thar be na regaliteis grantyt without delmerance est of the e. 4. conspicientibus furca postea suspensus ; Boeth. Parliament." A. 1455, ibid., p. 43, This sense of the word, directly contrary to the The use of this term is analogous to that of L. B. modern is in to meaning, borrowed from L. B. justijicare, rectare, arrectare, rendered pur Laws, do right, meritis poenis afficere, debito supplicio plectere. Fr. i.e., to make satisfaction by punishment. V. ABETTYT. justic-ier is used in the same sense. In a letter from James IV. of Scotland to Charles JUSTIFYING, s. Subjection to capital punish- VII. of France, we have these words : Principalea ment. vero rebelles qui in eodem castro inventi fuerunt poena, "The Earl also shew himself familiar, at that time," suspendii justificavimus : we have justified by hanging. with the Duke and and did what he could tov V. Du Cange. King, save the Lords from in the v Capital punishment is sometimes thus denned : justifying King's fury." 82. beand swa convict, sail be to the deid Pitscottie, p. "Thay " justifyit thairfor ; I.e., punished to the death. A. 1500, Balfour's Pract., p. 596. [JUSTING, part. pr. Jousting, tilting, sporting, Lyndsay, Sat. Thrie Estaitis, 1. 2. Sometimes it denotes arbitrary punish- 546. Used also as a s. ; part. pa. justit."] ment, as by fine. " JUSTRY, s. 1. Justice, equity. Anent thame that reivis fisch fra fischeris," it is Thau we all to the Makar ordanit that "theSchiref sail write to the Lord or pray abow, Quhilk has in hand ofijustry the ballance, Baillie of the ground quhair the said trespassour is and That he vs grant of his der lestand lowe. remainis for the time, him in the chargeand King's Wallace, vi. 101, MS. name to tak the said trespassouris ane or ma, and send he beis thame to him to be justifyit. And gif con- 2. The justice eyre, court of justice. vict thairof befoir him be an that he be assise, adjudgit This Alysandyr Kyng of Scotland in ane unlaw of xx. lib. to be raisit to the use." King's Wes throwcht the kynryk traveland, A. 1497, Balfour's Pract., p. 543. Haldand Courtis and Justrys, L. B. justijicare is also used in this general sense, as And chastyd in it all Reverys. denoting punishment in proportion to the crime. Ju- Wyntown, vii. 9. 249. dicio dato damnare, vel per judicium compellere. It " Tharfor the Justice sal mak a ditta within thar is to mulcts. Justificabunt rustic- frequently applied iustris & punis thaim that ar falty, as the cause et medietatem habebit Prior Neronisvillae, OS, justitiae requiris." Parl. Ja. I., A. 1431, Acts Ed. 1814, p. 20. et medietatem Matthaeus de Anun villa. Chart., 1146, "That the part of Coule that is not within the Du The Prior was to receive one of ap. Cange. moiety bondis of my Erie of Ergilis Jitstry cum to Dunber- the and de Anunville another. fine, Matthew tane." Acts Ja. IV., 1503, Ed. 1814, p. 241. According to this sense, it may be a corr. of L. B. 3. It seems to be used as in criminal occasionally simply justitiarii, the name given to judges causes,

or itinerant or of officium ; Du signifying to condemn. ; Justitiare, justitiarii Cange. "Gif it happynis ony man til assist in rede, con- fort, or consal, or mayntenance, to thaim that ar ius- To JUTE, v. a. To tipple. Jutting and drink- tifiU be the king in this present parliament, or sal ing is a phrase commonly used with respect happyn to be iustifiit in tym cummyn for crimes com- to S. mittit agaynis the king, fra it be notour, or the tres- tipplers, JUT [716] JYP

The word has originally respected the act of pouriny Sowters and shepeherds, out that it be Percen a Pater natter the of liquor, might drunk ; Moos.-G. yiut-au, wyth palaice heaueu, Su.-G. ytut-a, A.-S. yeot-an, fundere. V. YET, v. And iiasseu Purgatori M&MDOMM. at her hence parting. /'. Ploughman, Fol. 52, b. JUTE, JOOT, a. LA term to weak applied Whan a rake'* gaun hame bung-fu or dull S. like liquor, ; Belg. jucht, slight beer. fmejute-i Lucky Spence's ; He has na a' his senses She ne'er ran sow jute, because Owre keen that night It gees the batts. Picken's Poems, 1788, p. 52. Ramsay's Poems, i. 229. She's the o' a Joot, Ferguason'a Poems, ii. 42. lady yard, An' her house is oienlie thacket ; Naue snodder to the fair 2. Sometimes, in contempt, applied to tea, gangs ; But the is Roxb. jute broken-backet. Upp. Clydes., Ibid., p. 155. This have may the same origin with the a. Belg. Perhaps it means, dreys, from yiut-an, &c., mentioned jucht, however, denotes slight beer ; and Su.-G. yyttia, above. mud, properly what is left after an inundation, from yittt-a, fundere. JUXT, adv. Next, as denoting place or with as JUTTIE, s. A tippler, Ang. order; corresponding first, going before. To JUTTLE, v. n. To tipple. To juttle and "It is, first, a vicious argumentation, and, iuxl, a drink, S. contumelious blasphemie against the truth of God." ' ' There winna be a styme o' them seen again atweesh Forbes's Defence, p. 29. this and twal hours at e en, whan they'll be baith hame Fr. jouxte, beside ; Lat. juxt-a. fu for the glowran ; dominie's zjuttliii elf, an' atweesh you and me, I'm wae to say, our ain guderaan's begun JUXTER, *. A juggler. V. JOWK. to like a drappie." Campbell, i. 330. The Isl. has a diminutive v., which is used nearly in [JVEGAR, . The sea-urchin, Orkn. & Shetl.] the same sense also s. ; Outl-a, liquida agitare ; the Haldorson. rjutl, agitatio liquidorum ; This, however, JYMP, s. A quirk. V. GYMP, s. is perhaps more immediately allied to our Scutle. " JYPLE, s. A with clothes badly JUTE, s. A term of reproach applied to a person made Gall. woman, nearly of the same import with ;" Encycl. ; evidently synon. with v. jade, Clydes. Hyple, q. Isl. a or Langland uses the same term to denote persons of skypla signifies calyptra laxior, woman's cap of a loose veil. the lowest rank. hood shape ; also, a

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