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Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

esidence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).…

A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

rd, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.

A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular] Goldsmith.

cock, At full cock, with the hammer raised and ready to fire; -- said of firearms, also, jocularly, of one prepared for instant action. -- At half cock. See under Half. -- Cock feather (Archery), the feather of an arrow at right angles to the direction of the cock or notch. Nares.

A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill.

To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. Southey.

A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way. Shak.

The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion. In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked on. Shak.

One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view anything. We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16.

Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.

One who tells fibs. [Jocular]

To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] Beaconsfield.

The state of being flabbergasted. [Jocular] London Punch.

An inhabitant of New York city. [Jocular] Irving.