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2. To cheat, to trick, S.
_P. Buch. Dial._
3. To make a quick turn.
_Burns._
4. To escape, to avoid, S.
_Ferguson._
5. To spend time idly, S. A.
_J. Nicol._
Su. G. _swink-a_, subterfugia quaerere, Germ. _schwink-en_, celeriter movere.
~Jink~, _s._ The act of eluding another, S.
_Burns._
~Jinker~, _s._
1. A gay sprightly girl.
_Ramsay._
2. A horse quick in its motions.
_Burns._
_To_ JIRBLE, _v. n._ To spill liquids, Fife.
JIRGLE, _s._ Any small quant.i.ty of liquor left in the bottom of a gla.s.s, or that has been emptied from one vessel to another, S.
_To_ ~Jirgle~, _v. n._ To empty any small quant.i.ty of liquor from one vessel to another, S.
_To_ JIRK, _v. a._
V. ~Chirk~.
JIRT, _s._ Expl. "jerk."
_Burns._
JISP, _s._ A flaw, fracture, or small orifice, S.
Isl. _geisp-a_, hisco, _geispe_, q. a c.h.i.n.k.
j.i.z.zEN-BED, GIZZEN, _s._ Child-bed.
_To lie in j.i.z.zen_, to be on the straw, S. B.
_Forbes._
O. Fr. _gesine_, lying in child-bed; _gesir_, to be in child-bed; L. B. _gesina_, puerperium.
IK, IC, _p.r.o.n._ I.
A. S. _ic_.
_Barbour._
IC, _conj._ Also.
_Barbour._
A. S. _ic-an_, to add.
ILD, _v. imp._ Would not.
_Wyntown._
_Ill they_, _will they_, S. B.
Isl. _ill-a_, controvertere.
ILK, ILKA, _adj. p.r.o.n._ Each, every; _ilk-ane_, every one, S.
_Barbour._
A. S. _aelc_, _elc_, omnis, singulus.
ILK, ILKE, _adj._ The same.
_Douglas._
A. S. _ylc_, _ylca_, id. _Of that ilk_, of the same; denoting that he, who is thus designed, has a t.i.tle the same with his surname.
