jot

The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.

This bond doth giue thee here no iote of blood, / The vvords expreſly are a pound of fleſh: / Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of fleſh, / But in the cutting of it, if thou doſt ſhed / One drop of Chriſtian blood, thy lands and goods / Are by the lavves of Venice, confiſcate / Vnto the State of Venice.

For verily I ſay vnto you, Till heauen and earth paſſe, one iote or one tittle, ſhall in no wiſe paſſe from the law, till all be fulfilled.

A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.

He didn’t care a jot for his work.

Sir, the People muſt haue their Voiyes, / Neyther vvill they bate / One iot of Ceremonie.

A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.

So vveake my povvres, ſo ſore my vvounds appeare, / that vvonder is hovv I ſhould liue a iot, / ſeeing my hart through launched euery vvhere / vvith thouſand arrovves, vvhich your eies haue ſhot: […]

No faith, Ile not ſtay a iot longer: […]

A brief and hurriedly written note.

"Lover," you say; "how beautiful that is, / That little word!” […] / Yes, it is beautiful. I have marked it long, / Long in my dusty head its jot secreted, / Yet my heart never knew this word a song / Till in the night softly by you repeated.

Chiefly followed by down: to write (something) quickly; to make a brief note of (something).

Tell me your order so I can jot it down.

He mentions as certain the falsehood of a number of the assertions concerning his usage, the unhealthy state of the island, and so forth. I have jotted down his evidence elsewhere.

To jerk or jolt (something); to jog.

Nowe is iuſte iuſtice, ſo iotted out of iointe, / That ye here vniuſtely, ſtande at deniall, / To do me iuſtice, and wolde by power ryall: / Directe mine acquitall or condemnacion, / Euen as wyll in both: weith your acceptacion.