A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks, Which I will practise. Merchant of Venice, iii. 4. Take hence this Jack, and whip him. Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 8. JACK-A-LENT. A stuffed figure; a puppet; a term of contempt or familiarity.

You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us? Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 3. See now how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent, when 'tis upon ill employment. Ibid. v. 5.

JACK-AN-APES. An ape.

If we live thus tamely,

To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
Farewell nobility.

Henry 8, iii. 2.
How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,
The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia
We have jaded out o' the field.

Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 1.

JADED. Mean; paltry.

The honourable blood of Lancaster
Must not be shed by such a jaded groom.

Henry 6, P. 2, iv. 1. To JANGLE. To quarrel; to sound discordantly.

Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.
Love's Labour's lost, ii. 1.
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
Hamlet, iii. 1.

JANGLING. Altercation; bickering.
And so far am I glad it so did sort,
As this their jangling I esteem a sport.

TO JAR. To strike; to tick; to vibrate regularly.

My thoughts are minutes; and, with sighs, they jar
Their watches on unto mine eyes. Richard 2, v. 5.

TO JAUNCE. To ride hard; to jade.

And yet I bear a burden like an ass,
Spur-gall'd and tir'd by jauncing Bolingbroke.

JAY. A jade; a courtezan.

Some jay of Italy,

Richard 2, v. 5.

Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him. Cymbeline, iii. 4.

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JEALOUS.

We'll teach him to know turtles from jays.
Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 3.

JEALOUS. Suspicious; doubtful; alarmed at.
Come, go along, and see the truth hereof;
For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.
Taming of the Shrew, iv. 5.
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. As you like it, ii. 7.
That you do love me, I am nothing jealous.
Julius Cæsar, i. 2.
And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus. Ibid. i. 2.
My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
Seek through your camp to find you. Hen. 5, iv. 1.

Which, being dead many years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow. Cymbeline, v. 4.

But soon that war had end, and the time's state Made friends of them, jointing their force 'gainst Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2. JOINTRESS. The holder of a jointure. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, The imperial jointress of this warlike state, Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy, Taken to wife.

Hamlet, i. 2.