Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JEST'ER, n.

1. A person given to jesting, sportive talk and merry pranks. He rambled up and down / With shallow jesters. – Shak.
2. One given to sarcasm. Now, as a jester, I accost you. – Swift.
3. A buffoon; a merry-andrew, person formerly retained by princes to make sport for them.