2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.

If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with

trifles and jingles, but use them justly.

Bacon.

3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has

little merit; hence, the verse itself." The least jingle of verse."

Guardian.

Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.

Jin"gler (?), n. One who, or that which, jingles.

Jin"gling (?), n. The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the

sound itself; a chink. "The jingling of the guinea." Tennyson.

Jin"gling*ly, adv. So as to jingle. Lowell.

Jin"go (?), n.; pl. Jingoes (#). [Said to be a corruption of St.

Gingoulph.]

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