J

• • Jack

  • a mean fellow

  • Jack-a-lent

  • a puppet thrown at in Lent

  • Jack Guardant

  • a jack in office

  • Jade

  • to whip, to treat with contempt

  • Jar

  • the ticking of a clock

  • Jar

  • to tick as a clock

  • Jaunce

  • to prance

  • Jess

  • a strap of leather attached to the talons of a
    hawk, by which it is held on the fist

  • Jest

  • to tilt in a tournament

  • Jet

  • to strut

  • Journal

  • daily

  • Jovial

  • appertaining to Jove

  • Judicious

  • critical

  • Jump

  • to agree
    to hazard

  • Jump

  • hazard

  • Jump

  • exactly, nicely

  • Justicer

  • a judge, magistrate

  • Jut

  • to encroach

  • Jutty

  • a projection

  • Jutty

  • to jut out beyond

  • Juvenal

  • youth, young man

K

• Kam

  crooked

• Kecksy

  hemlock

• Keech

  a lump of tallow

• Keel

  to skin

• Keep

  to restrain

• Keisar

  Caesar, Emperor

• Kern

  the rude foot soldiers of the Irish

• Kibe

  a chilblain

• Kickshaw

  a made dish

• Kicksy Wicksy

  a wife, used in disdain

• Kiln-hole

  the ash-hole under a kiln

• Kind

  nature

• Kindle

  to bring forth young; used only of beasts

• Kindless

  unnatural

• Kindly

  natural

• Kirtle

  a gown

• Knap

  to snap, crack

• Knave

  a boy
  A serving-man

• Knot

  a figure in garden beds

• Know

  to acknowledge