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 195 Jack. Almost if not quite disused in Cornwall. The well known name of the m^achine for turning a spit in roasting; worked by a weight with puUies, by which the spit was turned round Jack Harry's lights. Phantom lights preceding a storm, superstitiously thought to take the form of the vessel doomed to be lost. Jack-O-lent. A dirty, slovenly fellow. c. Jack with the lantern. Will-o-the-wisp. Ignis fatnus. Jacky. Too much Black Jack or Blende in the ore. " For the ore was waik and jacky in the stoan. Tregellas. Jacky-ralph. A wrasse. m.a.c. Jaffle. A handful. See Yaffle. Jail, or Jaale. To walk fast. "Jailing along." Jailer, or Jallishy buff. Yellow. See Yaller. Jan-jansy. Two-faced. M.A.C. Janus-like. Jelly-flower. Gilly-flower, the stock. Gilo/re, Chaucer, Jews' ears. Some kinds of fungi. c. Jews' fish. The halibut, hijjpoglossus vulgaris. Called the Jews' fish because of its being a favourite part of their diet. (At Plymouth in the first half of the century the brill was always called the halibut). (The Cornishman, 1882^. Jews' house. A very ancient smelting place for tin. Folwhele,