JIB, noun The foremost sail of a ship, being a large stay-sail extended from the outer end of the jib-boom towards the fore-top-mast-head. In sloops, it is on the bow-sprit, and extends towards the lower mast-head.
JIBOY'A, noun An American serpent of the largest kind.
JIG, noun A kind of light dance, or a tune or air.
1. A ballad.
JIG, verb intransitive To dance a jig
JIG'GER, noun In sea-language, a machine consisting of a rope about five feet long, with a block at one end and a sheave at the other, used to hold on the cable when it is heaved into the ship, by the revolution of the windlass.
JIG'GISH, adjective Suitable to a jig.
JIG'MAKER, noun One who makes or plays jigs.
1. A ballad maker.
JIG'PIN, noun A pin used by miners to hold the turn-beams, and prevent them from turning.
JILL, noun A young woman; in contempt. [See Gill.]
JILL'-FLIRT, noun A light wanton woman.
JILT, noun [of uncertain etymology.] A woman who gives her lover hopes and capriciously disappoints him; a woman who trifles with her lover.
1. A name of contempt for a woman.
JILT, verb transitive To encourage a lover and then frustrate his hopes; to trick in love; to give hopes to a lover and then reject him.
JILT, verb intransitive To play the jilt; to practice deception in love and discard lovers.
JIM'MERS, noun Jointed hinges.
JIN'GLE, verb intransitive To sound with a fine sharp rattle; to clink; as jingling chains or bells.
JIN'GLE, verb transitive To cause to give a sharp sound, as a little bell or as pieces of metal.
The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.
JIN'GLE, noun A rattling or clinking sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
1. A little bell or rattle.
2. Correspondence of sound in rhymes.
JIN'GLE, verb intransitive
1. To make a sharp clattering sound; to ring as a little bell, or as small pieces of sonorous metal; as gingling halfpence.
2. To utter affected or chiming sounds in periods or cadence.
GIN'GLE, verb transitive To shake so as to make clattering sounds in quick succession; to ring, as a little bell, or as small coins.
The bells she gingled, and the whistle blew.
GIN'GLE, noun A shrill clattering sound, or a succession of sharp sounds, as those made by a little bell or by small coins.
1. Affection in the sounds of periods in reading or speaking, or rather chiming sounds.
JIN'GLING, participle present tense Giving a sharp fine rattling sound, as a little bell or as pieces of metal.
JIP'PO, noun A waistcoat or kind of stays for females.