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A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.

A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.…

Any of certain basslike marine fishes (mostly of tropical seas, and having a deep, compressed body, protracile mouth, and large silvery scales) constituting the family Gerridæ, as Gerres plumieri, found from Florida to Brazil and used as food. Also, any of numerous other fishes of similar appearance but belonging to ot…

A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.

f fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

t moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

A jar. [Obs.] 1 Kings xvii. 12.

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.

by Descartes. -- Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. -- Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of the curve mr + m'r' =…

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.

To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

ng story. Bp. Burnet. Health consists with temperance alone. Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.

A crock; a jar. [Obs.] Chauser.