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

Jesting; merriment.

In jest; for sport or mirth; jocosely.

Jocular; jocose; sportive. Bacon.

To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]

The state of being an alderman. [Jocular]

The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau. [Jocular] Dryden.

A lively or mettlesome fellow. [Jocular, Scot.] Burns.

residence 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).…

t 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.

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.

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.

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.