Jarn´dyce

v. Jarn´dyce ( 2 syl. ), a Chancery suit “never ending, still beginning,” which had dragged its slow length along over so many years that it had blighted the prospects and ruined the health of all persons interested in its settlement.—C. Dickens, Bleak House (1853). Jarndyce ( Mr. ), client in the great Chancery suit of “Jarndyce v. Jarndyce,” and guardian of Esther Summers on. He concealed the tenderest heart under a flimsy churlishne of demeanor, and could never endure to be thanked for any of his numberle acts of kindne and charity. If anything went wrong with him, or his heart was moved to melting, he would say, “I am sure the wind is in the east.”—C. Dickens, Bleak House (1853).