197 Jowds, or Jowders. Pieces, bits. "Tes scat oal to jowders/' i.e., It is broken all to pieces. Jowlin. A dull, gnawing pain is so called, as " I've a jowlin tooth aclie." Juck. See Jick, and Yock, or Yuck. Jumpin. Thus used, "a jumpin little scamp." A little humbugging fellow is a ^^ jumpin" or a ^^rump- in" fellow. A term of contempt. Jung. Young. Jiingl', Celtic Cornish, young. Junket. New (or raw) milk fresh from the cow, curdled by rennet. Clotted cream is laid on the top, and the whole flavoured with nutmeg and rum. Elsewhere junket means a cheese cake, a sweet-meat, properly made of curd. The word is the Italian giuncate (curd, or cream cheese), so called because carried on junk or bull rushes (giunco). Breiuer,
- ' Yon know there want no junl:cts at the feast."
Shakspere '* Taming of the Shreiv,^^ Just alive. Mining term, meaning a small appearance of ore in the stone. Jyst. A joist or beam. Jyst and gyst are Celtic Cornish words for a beam. Kager, Keggas^ or Kai-yer. Wild parsnip, wild carrot. H.R.c. The ancient Cornish called hemlock kegas, Kan Kayers. Two or three confederates who unite to undervalue, or make fictitious ofl'ers, and praise anything they wish to sell ; tricksters. Bottrell.
