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Jack, IV, 112, 4; 113, 5: insolent fellow.

iacke, III, 342, 64: (here) coat of mail, cf. 58, 59, 60. soldans iack, III, 422, 75. An ordinary soldier’s jack (III, 440, 18; 465 f., 33, 42, 49; IV, 147, 41) consisted of two folds of stout canvas, or some quilted material, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt. Old Robin, II, 241, 21, puts a silke cote on his backe was thirteen inches folde.

jail-house, V, [300], 16: jail.

jamp, pret. of jump, II, 121, 21: jumped.

iapis, III, 59, 63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.

jauel, V, [81], 11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle fellow. Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. “He called the fellow ribbalde, villaine, iauel, backbiter, sclaunderer, and the childe of perdition.” Utopia, Arber, p. 53.

jaw, jawe, I, 127, 10; 128, 8; II, 21, 8; 24, 11; 29, 10-12: wave.

jawing, jawing wave, II, 223, F 7; IV, 472, 16: surging.

jawing, n., IV, 462, 24: surging.

jee, I, 389, 7; IV, 476, 5: move, stir.

jelly (jolly), I, 69, 51; 298, 2; 452, 10; II, 403, 5; IV, 413, 20: handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: “upright, worthy, excellent in its kind.”

ietted, III, 199, 19; V, [86], 30: moved in state or with pride.

jimp, gimp, jump, adj., I, 330, 8; 333, 6; II, 216, 18, 20; 217, 1, 3; 221, 1, 3; 225, J 1; IV, 212, 1; 272, 2: slender, slim.

jimp, adv., II, 74, D 3: tightly, so as to make slender.

jo, II, 103, 5: sweetheart.

jobbing (of faces), III, 219, 14: billing (like doves).

jobbing at, I, 104 b, 10: jogging. The at is difficult. The old prefix means off, away, but is not separable.

Jock Sheep, John Sheephead, II, 480 a; IV, 290, 23: a man deficient in virility (?). V, [206] a, 9: simpleton, of one who has been stultified or outwitted.

iollye, III, 278, 32: should probably be iollytë. See enter plea.

joukd, V, [9], 12: bent forward. See juks.

jow (of bell), II, 277, A 8: stroke.

juks, V, [110], 5: bows, obeisances. See joukd.

jule, jewel.

jully-flowers, gilly-flowers.

jumbling, V, [102] B 13: mudding, fouling.

jumly, IV, 182, F 9: turbid.

jump, V, [267] b, 5: jimp, slender.

jumpted, IV, 519 a, 3: jumped.

justle, III, 280, 26: joust, tilt.

justler, III, 280, 31, 32: jouster, tilter.

justling, III, 279, 12, 14, 16: jousting.