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rive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent. Milton.

f reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

To jest; to play tricks; to jeer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A jester; a buffoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift.

The act or practice of jesting. [Obs.]

Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.

Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person.

Jesting; merriment.

In jest; for sport or mirth; jocosely.

A jester; a joker. [Obs.] Strutt.

A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. [Colloq.] It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole.

a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope. Or witty joke our airy senses moves To pleasant laughter. Gay.

One who makes jokes or jests.

Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.] "Some large jests he will make." Shak.

To lose. [Obs.] They would rather leese their friend than their jest. Lord Burleigh.

times. Bacon. Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips.

by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. Sir J. Davies.

s in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning. His eye . . . lightens forth Controlling majesty. Shak.