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

One who, or that which, jingles.

To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cowley

See Jingle.

paint. (b) (Zoöl.) A bivalve shell (Anomia glabra) of the Atlantic coast; -- called also jingle shell and silver shell. See Anomia. -- Gold size, a composition used in applying gold leaf. -- Gold solder, a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper. -- Gold stick, the c…

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

So as to jingle. Lowell.

Play; idle jingle. An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. Broome.

e; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam). The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope.