Bell Jar - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A glass vessel varying in size open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it It is used for a great variety of purposes as with the air pump and for holding gases also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view...
canopic jar
a jar used in ancient Egyptian tombs to contain the intestines of a person who was mummified for burial also called canopic vase...
Jarringly
In a jarring or discordant manner...
Leyden jar
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...
Bell
Bell. As to rent by ringing church bells, see Doe d. Edney v. Benham, (1845) 7 QB 976; and for a case of nuisance by bell-ringing, see Soltau v. De Held, (1851) 2 Sim NS 133. As to annoyance in street by ringing doorbell, see (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 28; (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 54; and STREET OFFENCES....
Bell crank
A lever whose two arms form a right angle or nearly a right angle having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms etc and also in machinery...
Belled
Hung with a bell or bells...
Mote-bell
Mote-bell, the bell which was used by the Saxons to summon people to the Court....
Sanctus Bell
Sanctus Bell, a bell tolled in the Communion Service at the moment of the elevation of the sacred elements. The rite is illegal in the Church of England, Re St. John the Evangelist, 1909, P. 6....
Bell bearer
A Brazilian leaf hopper Bocydium tintinnabuliferum remarkable for the four bell shaped appendages of its thorax...
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