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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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19 words match “JESTING”

JESTING a. 2 definitions
Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay .
JESTINGLY adv.
In a jesting manner.
BANTER v. 2 definitions
ule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.
CHAFF n.
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
CONVENIENT a.
e with food convenient for me. Prov. xxx. 8. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. Eph. v. 4.
DROLLINGLY adv.
In a jesting manner.
JAPERY n.
Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.
JESTER n.
A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. Shak.
JESTFUL a.
Given to jesting; full of jokes.
JOCANTRY n.
The act or practice of jesting. [Obs.]
JOCOSE a.
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.
JOCULAR a.
Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person.
JOCULARITY n.
Jesting; merriment.
OUTJEST v.
To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by jesting. [R.] Shak.
QUIT v.
hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. Locke. To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. -- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the…
RAILLERY n.
Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.
SCOPTIC; SCOPTICAL a.
Jesting; jeering; scoffing. [Obs.] South. -- Scop"tic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]
SERIOUS a.
Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving. Beaconsfield.
SPORTFUL a.
Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton.