Definition of "jynx"

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

The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.

1708, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, XXVI, page 123

Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of 'Jynx', 'Jynx', 'Jynx'.

1845, The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107

A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.

1857, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, volume I, published 1858, page 297

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

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