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jyng | jynx |

Jyng is often a misspelling of jynx.


Jyng has no English definition.

As a noun jynx is

a bird, the {{l/en|wryneck}} (Jynx or Iynx torquilla).

jyng

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Noun

(jynges)

    • jynx

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    Noun

    (jynges)
  • A bird, the '' or ''(l) ).
  • * 1649 , George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V , line ccxcv:
    • Where not a Silver Iyng , or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.
  • * 1706 , John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of Words , “Jynx”:
    • Jynx , the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.
  • * 1708 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London XXVI, page 123:
    • The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.
  • * 1845 , The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107:
    • Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx', '''Jynx''', ' Jynx .
  • * 1857 , Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery (1858), volume I, page 297:
    • A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx , in their hands.
  • (label) A a jinx (quod vide).
  • * ante'' 1693 , Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), ''The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais , chapter i, page 23:
    • These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges , Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz ], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
  • The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “” philosophy.
  • * 1655 , Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (1701), page 17/2:
    • Then is the Intelligible Jynx'; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent ' Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.

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    References

    * V (H–K; 1st ed., 1901), § 3 (J), page 646/3, “ Jynx”