jynx

Noun

jynx (plural jynges)

1. A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
   • Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv
   • Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.1706, “Jynx”, in John Kersey, editor, Phillips’s New World of Words
2. (transferred sense) A charm or spell.
   • These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.ante 1693, Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, chapter i, page 23
   • You can extend the idea of isograms to sentences that don't repeat any letters. Interestingly, there are several English sentences that use each letter exactly once. They're all pretty weird and either borrow from other languages or use acronyms that were later accepted as English words. For...2015 February 26, “CS106A Practice Midterm 2 Solutions”, in Stanford University, page 2

   Synonyms:

   jinx

3. One of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
   • 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.1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, published 1701, page 17/2