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Jocular; jocose; sportive. Bacon.

A sculpin. [Local cant] Johny Crapaud (, a jocose designation of a Frenchman, or of the French people, collectively.

Pleasant; jocose. [R.] The joyous and lepid consul. Sydney Smith.

Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such. [Jocose] But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed Thackeray.

The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange.

To play the orator. [Jocose or derisive] Dickens.

A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

The hand. [Jocose] Dryden. Paw clam (Zoöl.), the tridacna; -- so called because shaped like an animal's paw.

The human skin. [Jocose] Dryden.

cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit. Addison. The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world. Macaulay.

The nose. [Jocose] Proboscis monkey. (Zoöl.) See Kahau.

Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. [U.S.] Bartlett. What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed.

The quality or state of being a rogue. [Jocose] "Your rogueship." Dryden.

Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts. The wretched affectation of scurrile laughter. Cowley. A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than father's ancient name. Sir W. Scott.

A picture representing a scene at sea. [Jocose] Thackeray.

A preacher; a sermonizer. [Derogative or Jocose.] Thackeray.

A jocosely depreciative name for a vehicle. [Ireland]

A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop. [Slang,U.S.]

A jocose term for money.

A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.] Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.