Leyden jar | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

Jar
·noun A turn. [Only in phrase.]. II. Jar ·noun A regular vibration, as of a pendulum. III. Jar ·no...

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Leyden phial
·- A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and with...

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Leyden, John
(1775-1811) Poet and Orientalist, b. at Denholm, Roxburghshire, gave early evidence of superior abi...

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Bell jar
·- A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having...

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Jar-owl
·noun The <<Goatsucker>>. ...

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to blot the skrip and jar it
To stand engaged or bound for any one. Cant. ...

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