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<h1>Jingle</h1> <Xpage=800>

<hw>Jin"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gingelen</ets>, <ets>ginglen</ets>; prob. akin to E. <ets>chink</ets>; cf. also E. <ets>jangle</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; <as>as, sleigh bells <ex>jingle</ex></as>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>gingle</asp>.]</altsp>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.</def> "<i>Jingling</i> street ballads."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<h1>Jingle</h1> <Xpage=800>

<hw>Jin"gle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Jingled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Jingling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.</def>

<blockquote>The bells she <b>jingled</b>, and the whistle blew. <i> Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Jingle</h1> <Xpage=800>

<hw>Jin"gle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.</def>

<blockquote>If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and <b>jingles</b>,but use them justly. <i> Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.</def>" The least <i>jingle</i> of verse."

<i>Guardian.</i>

<cs><col>Jingle shell</col>. <cd>See <cref>Gold shell</cref> <sd>(b)</sd>, under <er>Gold</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Jingler</h1> <Xpage=800>

<hw>Jin"gler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, jingles.</def>

<h1>Jingling</h1> <Xpage=800>

<hw>Jin"gling</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink.</def> "The <i>jingling</i> of the guinea."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Jinglingly</h1> <Xpage=800>

<hw>Jin"gling*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>So as to jingle.</def>

<i>Lowell.</i>

<h1>Jingo</h1> <Xpage=800>

<hw>Jin"go</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Jingoes</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Said to be a corruption of St. <ets>Gingoulph</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A word used as a jocular oath.</def> "By the living <i>jingo</i>."

<i>Goldsmith.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs.</def> <mark>[Cant, Eng.]</mark>