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A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel. [Written also gingal and jingall.] [India]

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

s, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms. [Written also jin, djinnee, etc.]

A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson. [Written also Johnsonism.]

A woman who has a jointure. [Written also jointuress.] Blackstone.

iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke. Sir W. Scott.

To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.] For the whole army to joust and tourney. Holland.

The cheek; the jaw. [Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule.] Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. "I will go with three cheek by jole." Shak. " Sits cheek by jowl." Dryden.

he names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos. [Written also Juggernnath, Jaganath, Jaganatha, etc.]

To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head. [Written also jook and jouk.] The money merchant was so proud of his trust that he went juking and tossing of his head. L' Estrange.

A kind of early apple. [Written also jenneting.]

and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

ch the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species. [Written also kail, and cale.]

used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm. [Written also kameela.]

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]

A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara. [Written also Khamseen.]

r Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, and cowrie.]

rage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]

The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock. [Written also kex, and in pl., kecks, kaxes.] Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs. Shak.

A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [Written also keelvat.] Johnson.