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An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
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A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
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A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
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To preserve (food) in a jar.
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A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
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A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
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(by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
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The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
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A disagreement, a dispute, a quarrel; contention, discord; quarrelling.
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To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
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He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.
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To harm or injure by such action.
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To shock or surprise.
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I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since.
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To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
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To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
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The clashing notes jarred on my ears.
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To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
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Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
This arrangement is commonly called a battery of Leyden jars.
The sherds include amphoras, jars, bowls and lids.
But although the use of the potters wheel had long been understood, the objects produced were simple utensils tc contain offerings of rice, fruit and fish at the austere ceremonials of the Shinto faith, jars for storing seeds, and vessels for commor domestic use.
It had long been customary in Japan to send students to China for the purpose of studying philosophy and religion, and she now (1223) sent a potter, Kato Shirozaemon, who, on his return, opened a kiln at Seto in the province of Owari, and began to produce little jars for preserving tea and cups for drinking it.
In Paris, too, at this time he made a whimsical but pleasant friendship. Marie de Jars de Gournay (1565-1645), one of the most learned ladies of the 16th and 17th centuries, had conceived such a veneration for the author of the Essays that, though a very young girl and connected with many noble families, she travelled to the capital on purpose to make his acquaintance.
It is impermeable to water, and is therefore used in northern countries for roofing, for domestic utensils, for boxes and jars to contain both solid and liquid substances, and for a kind of bark shoes, of which it is estimated 25 millions of pairs are annually worn by the Russian peasantry.
The jars and boxes of birch bark made by Russian peasants are often stamped with very effective patterns.
In prehistoric times in Egypt the dead were laid in the graves on mats in the crouching position common in the burials of primitive peoples, and were supplied with jars of food, flint instruments, &c. Perhaps the attempt was already made to preserve the bodies by drying or otherwise.
The seeds should be kept in sacks or bags in a dry place, and if from plants which are rare, or liable to lose their vitality, they are advantageously packed for transmission to a distance in hermetically sealed bottles or jars filled with earth or moss, without the addition of moisture.
Martaban is frequently mentioned by European voyagers of the 16th century; and it has given the name of "Martavans" to a class of large vessels of glazed pottery, also known in India as "Pegu jars."
This transfer will take place because the inner coatings of the Leyden jars have greater capacity with respect to the earth than the balls.
Hence the charges of the jars will be increased.
In general design and construction, the manner of moving the rotating plate and in the use of the two Leyden jars in connexion with the discharge balls, Voss borrowed his ideas from Holtz.
These combs on opposite sides are connected respectively to the inner coatings of two Leyden jars whose outer coatings are in connexion with one another.
The positive stud on the back plate will act inductively on the front stud and charge it negatively, and similarly for the other stud, and as the rotation continues these charged studs will pass round and give up most of their charge through the combs to the Leyden jars.
In some cases a failure to understand his meaning led to curious results; for example, the medieval custom, not uncommon in England, of placing rows of earthenware jars under the floor of the stalls in church choirs, appears to have been an attempt to follow out suggestions raised by Vitruvius as to the advantages of placing bronze vases round the auditorium of theatres.
Enormous quantities of wild-fowl of many sorts were taken in clap-nets, to be preserved in jars with salt.
The intestines were removed and placed in four vases (the burial, so-called Canopic jars) in which they were supposed to enjoy the protection of the four sons of Horus, the man-headed Mesti, the ape-headed Hapi, the jackal Duamutef and the falcon Kebhsenuf.
The lower range of jars in the oven had then black tops, while the upper ranges were entirely red.
The early dynastic pottery not only shows the decadent end of the earlier forms, but also new styles, such as grand jars of 2 or 3 ft.
Large ring-stands also were brought in, to support jars, so that the damp surfaces should not touch the dusty ground.
Drop-shaped jars with spherical bases are typical, and scrabbled patterns of incised lines.
Large jars of light brown pottery were made for storing liquids and grain, with narrow necks which just admit the hand (P.K.).
The native pottery is of a very fine paste, smooth and thin, but poor in forms. Cylindrical cups, and jars with cylindrical necks and no brim, are typical.
The body was brought to the pile in an embroidered robe and jars of unguents and honey were placed beside it.
The contents of the tombs have been nearly destroyed by successive plunderers; enough remained to show that rich jewellery was placed on the mummies, a profusion of vases of hard and valuable stones from the royal table service stood about the body, the store-rooms were filled with great jars of wine, perfumed ointment and other supplies, and tablets of ivory and of ebony were engraved with a record of the yearly annals of the reigns.
For charging in parallel a number of jars are collected in a box, and all the outside coatings are connected together metallically and all the inside coatings brought to one common terminal.
The safe voltage for most glass jars is about 20,000 volts for glass 1 ' 0 th in.
In other cases, Leyden jars or condensers take the form of sheets of mica or micanite or ebonite partly coated with tin foil or silver leaf on both sides; or a pile of sheets of alternate tin foil and mica may be built up, the tin foil sheets having lugs projecting out first on one side and then on the other.
Fessenden in wireless telegraphy, and they form a very excellent arrangement for standard condensers with which to compare the capacity of other Leyden jars.
A hundred or more jars were coupled in series, the cathodes of one to the anodes of the next, and were so arranged that with the aid of side-pipes with leaden connexions and india-rubber joints the electrolyte could, once daily, be made to circulate through them all from the top of one jar to the bottom of the next.
Such ritual use of oil as a o payls or seal may have been suggested in old religions by the practice of keeping wine fresh in jars and amphorae by pouring on a top layer of oil; for the spoiling of wine was attributed to the action of demons of corruption, against whom many ancient formulae of aversion or exorcism still exist.
On the clay stoppers of wine jars of the remote age which goes by the name of the pre-dynastic period, and which preceded the historic period of the first Pharaohs, there are seal impressions which must have been produced from matrices, like those of Babylonia and Assyria, of the cylinder type, the impress of the design having been repeated as the cylinder was rolled along the surface of the moist clay.
His wife had died many years before, and it jars upon us to read how he then commanded the young man to hush his lamentations of sorrow.
They are eagerly drunk by the pilgrims, or when poured over the body are held to give a miraculous refreshment after the fatigues of religious exercise; and the manufacture of bottles or jars for carrying the water to distant countries is quite a trade.
Ordinary sulphuric acid, H 2 SO 4, may be prepared by dissolving sulphur trioxide in water, a reaction accompanied by a great evolution of heat; by the gradual oxidation of an aqueous solution of sulphur dioxide, a fact which probably explains the frequent occurrence of sulphuric acid in the natural waters rising in volcanic districts; or by deflagrating a mixture of sulphur and nitre in large glass bells or jars, absorbing the vapours in water and concentrating the solution.
The district produces grain, opium, cotton, wool, limes (their juice, made into green extract, is exported in little earthenware jars), and manufactures gilims (woollen carpets without pile).
Jars of Clay is readying to release its seventh studio album Good Monsters on 5th September.
Sierra Rica, based near ancient, organic chestnut woods in southern Spain, sells cooked and peeled chestnuts in jars.
There were queues out of the door as curious Orcadians checked out the giant jars of gherkins, plastic flip-flops and tubs of sauerkraut.
In the summer of that year Robertson's removed the golly completely from their jam and marmalade jars.
They give a non-slip grip that makes opening jars easy.
Please rinse jars and tins to keep the box hygienic over the holiday period.
Transfer them to sterilized jars with a slotted spoon along with the spices.
Please contact me if you have any suitable screw-top jam jars.
The next morning he wakes in his bed, late for work at the jam factory, putting jam into jam jars.
To make your medicines you'll need glass jars of various sizes with tight-fitting lids.
Sales of whole nutmeg increased from 1,400 jars to 6,000 in the week following the TV ad.
In addition sales of ground nutmeg have more than doubled with over 4,500 jars being sold each week.
They would have been filled with acoustic jars, to make the singing more resonant.
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