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Show J.ohe confidered both -as a Ja'spErER, 2. /i [from jabler.] One wh vowel and confonant; though, finc talks inarticulately or unintelligibly I J A Englit i 9 the vowel and ‘confonant differ i their form as well as {found, they may b more properly accounted two letters I vowel has a long found, as foe thine, whic e final; an Out cant the Babylonian labourer At all their diale&s of jabberers Jalcent length Lat. Lyin a So laid, they are mere apt in fwagging down t pierce than in the jacent polture. Hotton's Architeét is ufually marked with a a fhort {found, as /i, thin Ja'cxvrw. w. /. [for byacinth, Ferufalem fo Hiernfalem. Prefixed to ¢ it makes a dipthong of th fame found with the foft 7, or-double e ee: thus jfield, yield, are {poken as feeld 1. The {fame with hyacinth 2. A gem of a deep reddif yeeld ; except fréeud, ~which 1s fpoke frend. Subjoined to or.e it makesthe long, as fail, neigh; and to o makes mingled found, which approaches mor mearly to the true notion of a dipthong or found compofed of the founds of tw vowels, than any other combination o proaching to a flame colour amber JACK. 7. /. [Probably b Jagnes, which in French i 1. The diminutive of Fohn general term of contemp paltry fellows vowels in the Englifh'language, as o/ coin. . 'The {found of 7 before another 7 yellow apor the deepef Woodavard miftake fro Fames. Ufed as for faucy o You will perceive that a Fark gardant canno Office me from my fon Coriolanus Shakefpeare and at the end of a.word is always exprefled by y tly the fam nia ava ¥ conf "hasn‘i I have in ‘my min A thoufand raw tricks of ‘thefe bragging Facks Which T wiil pracife Shak. Merch. of Ven found with that of g in giant, as jade, jet and I muft go-up and down like a cook that nobod Every Fack {lave ha 1. Pronoun perfonal. [ik, Gothick ; 1c, Saxon 4ch, Dutch 1, gen. mé; plural ave; gen. us of a boy wer There is none greater in this houfe than 7 Gen. xxxix. 9 Be of good cheer, itis 7: be not afraid Mat, xiv. 27. ‘What fhall 7 do to be for ever known And make thy age to come my own o fhall like beafts to commen people dye Cowley. Unlefs you write my elegy When chance of "bufinels parts s two "‘What do our fouls, I wonder, do? Thus her head having pafs'd the night.in fruitlefs pain 2. Bl ds in the following paffag for 1 3. 1 is more than once in Shake/peare writte for ay, or yes Hath Romeo flain himfelf? Say thou but Z And that bare vowel 7, fhall poifon mor "Than the death darting.eye of cockatrice Shakefp Did your letters pierce the queen ~- I, fir; fhe took 'em and read 'em. in.my prefence Ard now and then an ample tear trill'd down. Shak To JA'BBER w. »n [gabberen Dutch.] To talk idly; to prate without thinking to chatter We fcorn, for want of talk, to jabbe Df parties Swwift they wer Watts's Logick was beaten down. - Wifeman's Surgfly‘ the mufes on their rack Scream, like the winding of ten thoufand jacks Pope 4. A young pike No fith will thrive'i writte There is but one man whom (he can have, and tha is me Clarifja thofe fervices Some ftrain in rhyme in Of night impatient we demand the day "The day arrives, and.for the night e pray Blackmore for bot wheels be. perpendicularly and ftrongly fixed on th fquares of thefpindles; that the teeth be evenly cut and well fmoothed; and that the teeth of the wormwheel fall evenly into the groove of theworm VoA Moxon The ordihary jacks, ufed for roafting of meat commonly confift butof three wheels Wilkins A cookmaid, by the fall of a jack weight upo Cowley 4 to my ionging friends return again. Dryden' a virginal In a visginal, as foon as ever the jack falleth and toucheth the'('crin‘g, the found ceafeth 9. The male of animalk. Bacor A jack afs, for a ftallion, was bought for thre thoufand two hundred and twenty-nine pounds thre fhillings and four pence Arbuthnot on Coins 1o. A fupport to faw wood on. Ainfworth 1. The colours or enfign ofa thip. Ainfus 12. A cunning fellow who can turn to an thing, in the following phrafe Fack of all trades, fhow and found An inverf{e burfe, an exchange under ground Cleaveland Jack Bosts. n. f. [from jack, a coat o mail. Boots which ferve as armour t the legs A man on horfeback, in, his breeches and jac boots, drefled upin a commode and 2 night-rail Jacxk &y the bedge. . f Eryfimum Spectator " Fack by the hedgeis an herb that grows wild unde hedges, is eaten as other fallads are, and much ufe broth Mortimer Jack Pudding #. f. [jack and pudding. A zani; amerry Andrew Every jack pudding will be ridiculin palpabl weaknefles which they ought to cover. L'Effrange - A buffoon is- called by every nation by the nam of the difh they like beft: in French jean pottage and in Engli‘h jack pudding Guardian Fack pudding, in his party-colour'd jacket Toffes the glove, and jokes at ev'ry packet Gay Jacxk awith @ Lantern An ignis fatuus 3. An engine which turns the {pit J / Fa i Le po c t A E N The excellencies of a good jack are, that th ftarved fellow. | A fimple fheepifh fellow Jack frame be forged and filed fquare; that th WCowley for me invente both called jacks 1 do not like thefe feveral councils, 7. Shakefpeare and make roo as an inftrument to puil off boots « Foot-boys, who had frequently the common nam of yack given them, were Kept to turn the fpit, o to pull off their mafters boots; but when inftrument P e i 1, 'The pronoun of the firt perfon, myflf Hence his belly-full of fighting Shakefpeare can match The name of inftruments which fupply the plac Jilt, jolt, juf adj. [jacens Hudibras 8. A part.of the mufical inftrument calle gudgeons are, except jacks 5 [ Jacque, ¥r. a pond wher roach o Mortimer's Hufbapdry A coatof mail The refidue were on foot, well furnifhed with jac and fkull, pike, dagger, bucklers made of board, an flicin temper fwords broad thin an 1 6. A cup of waxed leather of a excellen Hayward Dead wine, that ftinks of the borrachio, fu From a foul jack, or greafy maple cup Diryden 7. A {mall bowl throw the bowlers out for a mark t ?Tis as if one fhould fay, that a bowl equall poifed, and thrown upen a plain bowling-green, wil vun neceflarily in a dire€t motion3 but if it be mad with a byafs, that may decline it a little from ftraight line, it may acquire a Liberty of will, an fo run fpontaneoufly to the jack Bentley You little jackalent, have you been true to us 1l be fworn.: Shak. Merry Wives of Windf -Ay Jacka'v. u f'[chacal animal fuppofed t Fr. {mal ftart prey for th lion The Belgians tack upon our rear And raking chafe-guns through our fterns they fend Clofe by their firefhips, 1fke jackals appear Who on their lions for the prey attend Drydern. The mighty lion, before whom ftood the littl Jackal, the faithful fpy of the king of beafts Ja'crnares Arbuthnot and Pope . fo [ jack and ape. 1. Monkey; an ape 2. A coxcomb; an impertinent Which is he That jackanapes with fcarfs People wonder'd how fuc Jackanape fhoul take fo muc upo gro Shakefpeare a fyoung upftar fo pert an faucy, and Arb him Jackpa'w. u. /. [ jack and daw.] A cock daw; a bird taught to imitate the huma voice To impofe on a child to get by heart a lon feroll of phrafes, without any ideas, is a practic fitter for a jackdaww than for any thing that wear the fhape of man Watts Jalcker. a. /o [ jacquet, Fr. 1. A fhort coat; a clofe wailtcoat In a blue jacket, with a crofs of red, Hudd, Tz |