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aber), inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith.

A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish g…

alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.

To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.

Producing discordant sounds. "A jangling noise." Milton.

To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears. When such strings jar, what hope of harmony Shak. A string may jar in the best master's hand. Roscommon.

To emit a harsh or discordant sound. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. Longfellow.

Shaking; disturbing; discordant. "A jarring sound." Dryden.

To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.]

The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink. "The jingling of the guinea." Tennyson.

t; festivity. Such joy made Una, when her knight she found. Spenser. The roofs with joy resound. Dryden.

Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet. He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The fits o' the season. Shak.

To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers. B. Jonson. The juice of Egypt's grape. Shak. Letters which Edward Digby wrote in lemon juice. Macaulay. Cold water draws the juice of meat. Mrs. Whitney.

en they do not practice it themselves. Tillotson. Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the va…

gs. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.

t; a striking or thrust with the foot. A kick, that scarce would more a horse, May kill a sound divine. Cowper.

A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument.

kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.