to sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.-to rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.-to cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.-a rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.-that which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.-a correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.