jedge

[Perhaps a corruption of judge.] A gauge or standard. Jedge-and-warrant, s. A warrant or authority given to a dean of guild to repair or rebuild a dilapidated or ruinous tenement according to plan. jee, v. i. & t. [GEE.] jeel, s. A shallow lake or mora . ( East Indies.) jeer, *geare, *jeere, v. i. & t. Etym. doubtful. Skeat refers it to Dut. gekscheeren, scheeren = to mock, to jeer, from the phrase, den gek scheeren = to shear the fool. Others derive it from Fr. girer : Ital. girare , from Lat. gyro =to turn in a circle.] A. In trans.: To scoff, to flout; to make a mock of a person or thing; to deride. "Friend Tortoise, quoth the jeering Hare, Your burden's more than you can bear." Lloyd: Hare and Tortoise. IMG:content-0115.png:[blocks in formation] jëer-er, s. [Eng.jeer; -er.] One who jeers or mocks; a mocker; a scoffer. "There you named the famous jeerer That ever jeered in Rome or Athens." Beaum. & Flet .: Nice Valour , v. 1. Jjëer-Ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [JEER, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of mocking or scoffing; mockery, derision, jeers. "But he gravely spake and answered To their jeering and their jesting." Long fellow: Song of Hiawatha , xxi. jëer-Ing-ly, adv . [Eng. jeering; -ly. In a jeering, scoffing manner; with jeers; in scoff; in mockery. "All this will not content some morose cavillers, whom I have heard jeeringly say 'that many who were burnt in Fox in the reign of Queen Mary drank sack in the days of Queen Elizabeth." -Fuller : Worthies; Berks hire.