“—‘joys prove cloudlets: Men are the merest Ixions’— Here the King whistled aloud, ‘Let’s —Heigho ... go look at our lions!’” R. Browning, _Dramatic Lyrics_, “The Glove.” =J= (In _Punch_), the signature of Douglas Jerrold, who first contributed to No. 9 of the serial (1803-1858). =Jaafer=, who carried the sacred banner of the prophet at the battle of Muta. When one hand was lopped off, he clutched the banner with the other; this hand being also lost, he held it with his two stumps. When, at length, his head was cleft from his body, he contrived so to fall as to detain the banner till it was seized by Abdallah, and handed to Khaled. CYNÆGEROS, in the battle of Marăthon, seized one of the Persian ships with his right hand. When this was lopped off, he laid hold of it with his left; and when this was also cut off, he seized it with his teeth, and held on till he lost his head. ADMIRAL BENBOW, in an engagement with the French, near St. Martha, in 1701, was carried on deck on a wooden frame after both his legs and thighs were shivered into splinters by chain-shot. ALMEYDA, the Portuguese governor of India, had himself propped against the mainmast after both his legs were shot off. =Jabos= (_Jock_), postillion at the Golden Arms inn, Kippletringan, of which Mrs. M’Candlish was landlady.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Ja´chin=, the parish clerk, who purloined the sacramental money, and died disgraced.—Crabbe, _Borough_ (1810). =Jacinta=, a first-rate cook, “who deserved to be housekeeper to the patriach of the Indies,” but was only cook to the licentiate Sedillo of Valladŏlid.—Ch. ii. I. The cook, who was no less dexterous than Dame Jacinta, was assisted by the coachman, in dressing the victuals.—Lesage, _Gil Blas_, iii. 10 (1715). =Jacin´tha=, the supposed wife of Octavio, and formerly contracted to Don Henrique (2 _syl._) an uxorious Spanish nobleman.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Spanish Curate_ (1622). _Jacintha_, the wealthy ward of Mr. Strickland; in love with Bellamy. Jacintha is staid but resolute, and though “she elopes down a ladder of rope” in boy’s costume, has plenty of good sense and female modesty.—Dr. Hoadly, _The Suspicious Husband_ (1747). =Jack= (_Colonel_), the hero of Defoe’s novel entitled _The History of the Most Remarkable Life and Extraordinary Adventures of the truly Hon. Colonel Jacque, vulgarly called Colonel Jack_. The colonel (born a gentleman and bred a pick-pocket) goes to Virginia, and passes through all the stages of colonial life, from that of “slavie” to that of an owner of slaves and plantation. The transition from their refined Oron´datês and Stati´ras, to the society of Captain [_sic_] Jack and Moll Flanders...is (to use a phrase of Sterne) like turning from Alexander the Great to Alexander the coppersmith.—_Encyc. Brit._, Art. “Romance.”