YDY, _s._ An eddy, a pool.

_Houlate._

Isl. _ida_, vortex aquae, _id-a_, more fluentis aquae circ.u.mcursito.

IDLESET, _s._ The state of being idle, S.

Q. _set_ or placed _idle_.

_R. Bruce._

YDILTETH, _s._ Idleness.

_K. Ja. VI._

A. S. _idel tid_, tempus vacuum.

YDRAW, _part. pa._ Drawn; metaph. advanced.

_Douglas._

_To_ JEALOUSE, _v. a._ To suspect, S.

_Wodrow._

JEBAT, _s._ A gibbet.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

JEDDART JUSTICE, A legal trial after the infliction of punishment, S.

_Minstrelsy Border._

~Jedburgh staff~, A kind of spear, for making which the artificers of Jedburgh were formerly celebrated.

_Spalding._

JEDGE, _s._ A gauge.

_Acts. Ja. VI._

O. Fr. _jauger_, to gage.

_To_ JEE, _v. n._

1. To move, to stir, S.

_Ross._

2. To move to one side, S. _Gee_, E.

Sw. _gaa_, to budge; also to turn round; Isl. _gag-ast_, in obliquum ferri.

_To_ JEEG, _v. n._

1. To creak, S.

_Ramsay._

2. To _jeeg at_, to work so as to make a creaking noise, S.

Isl. _jag-a_, eadem oberrare chorda; or _gigia_, a fiddle.

JEEGLER, _s._ An unfledged bird, Loth.

JELLY, adj.

1. Upright, worthy, S. B.

_Shirrefs._

2. Excellent in its kind, Moray.

_Popular Ball._

Su. G. _gill_, able; also denoting the moral qualities.

JELLILY, _adv._ Merrily, Moray; _jollily_, E.

_Popular Ball._

JILLET, _s._ A giddy girl, S. perhaps corr. from E. _jilt_.

_Burns._

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