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 1885. Jas. Payn, Talk of the Town, vii. They settled their wigs upon their foreheads and started off again at a jog trot in search of another mare's nest.

1890. St. James' Gazette, 9 Ap. p. 4, col. 1. Yet the yoke is meekly borne by the jog-trot undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge.

Jogue, subs. (old).—A shilling.—Grose. For synonyms see Bob.

Jogul, verb. (gaming).—To play up at cards, or other game.—Hotten.

John, subs. (Sandhurst).—A first year's cadet. For synonyms see Snooker.

2. (old).—A priest. Also Sir John and Mess- (or Mass-) John (q.v.). For synonyms see Devil-dodger.

1383. Chaucer, Cant Tales (Skeat) iv. 270. 4000. Com neer, thou preest, com hider, thou Sir Iohn.

c.1554. Youth [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 25]. What! Sir John, what say ye! Would you be fettered now?

1559. Porter, Two Angry Women [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii. 320]. Leave these considerations to Sir John; they become a black-coat better than a blue.

1611. Barry, Ram Alley, iv. Speak, answer we, Sir Jack: stole you my daughter?

1772. Stevens, Songs Comic and Satyrical (1788), 169. The next a Mess John of rank Methodist taint, Who thought like a sinner, but looked like a saint.

3. See Poor John.

John's silver pin, subs. phr. (old).—A piece of finery amongst sluttery and dirt.

John-a-nokes (or John-at-the-oaks), subs. (old).—Anybody; Mr. Thingumbob (q.v.). Also John-a-stiles or John-at-the-styles.

d.1529. Skelton, Colyn Cloute, line 323. What care they though Gil sweate, Or Jacke of the Noke.

1635. Glapthorne, Hollander, in Wks. (1874), 94. 'I know not how you style him.' 'Not John-a-Stiles, the Knight of the Post is it?'

1772. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic & Satyrical, 246. From John-a-Nokes to Tom-a-Styles What is it all but fooling?

1815. Scott, Guy Mannering (ed. 1829), ii. 13, 167. Adventures who are as willing to plead for John-a-Notes as for the first noble of the land.

John-a-dreams, subs. (old).—A dreamer; a man of sentiment and fancy as opposed to action; a futile person.

1596. Shakspeare, Hamlet, ii. 2. While I a dull, and noddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John-a-dreams, impregnant of my Cause And can say nothing.

1876. Henley, A Book of Verse, p. 91. Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-dreams, Still debating, Still delay, And the world's a ghost that gleams, Hovers—vanishes away.

1878. Julian Sturgis, John-a-dreams (Title].

1894. Haddon Chambers, John-a-dreams [Title].

John-among-the-Maids, subs. phr. (old).—A lady's man; a Carpet-Knight (q.v.).

John-and-joan, subs.phr. (old).—An hermaphrodite.

John-Audley, subs. (theatrical).—A signal to abridge the performance. [When another 'house', (q.v.) is waiting the word 'John-Audley' is passed round]. Also John Orderly.

1875. Athenaeum, 24 April, p. 545, col. 2. When that wary son of wandering Thespis (Richardson) used to step inside from the front, and ask 'Is John Audley here?' the stage-manager dropped the curtain wherever the tragedy might be, and a new audience took the places of the old. Even at this day, in