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A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.

A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. A young upstart jackanapes. Arbuthnot.

A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.

A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak.

Discordant sound; wrangling. The musical jangle of sleigh bells. Longfellow.

A wrangling, noisy fellow.

r in a harsh and noisy manner. The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. Longfellow.

f; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions. Longfellow.

orick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow.

A dreamy, idle fellow. Shak.

Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge. "Beyond his ken." Longfellow. Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension. South. It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men. Trench.

A young fellow; formerly, a low thief. [Slang, Eng.]

el Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick.

imes, and worn doth by men and women. Wearing her Norman car, and her kirtle of blue. Longfellow.

. And my near kith for sore me shend. W. Browne. The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.

A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity. The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears. B. Jonson. The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. Swift.

Knotty; gnarled. The knarred and crooked cedar knees. Longfellow.

A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak. In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools. Ames.

of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay.