An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - Part 442
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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.