Word Meanings - JINGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. 2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.

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• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• RHYMERY
  The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• RATTLETRAP
  Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. A. Trollope.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• RATTLE
  1. To cause to make a ratting or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain. 2. To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise. Sound but another , and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear. Shak. 3. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse;
• STREETWARD
  An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. Cowell.
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• RATTLEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• JINGLE
  1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. 2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• WALL STREET
  A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center