Earthenware is a common ceramic material, which is used extensively for pottery tableware and decorative objects.

Opera scenes were the source for what are generally credited as the first movies made in Hong Kong, two 1909 short comedies entitled Stealing a Roasted Duck and Right a Wrong with Earthenware Dish.

Make paper patterns for sections of jar and lid ( see Fig. 1, opposite page ).

To assemble jar, put paper pattern B for base in bottom of mold and clay disk B on top.

Make lid for sugar bowl the same as jar lids, omitting design disk.

At the end of the session, each voter tossed one of these into a large clay jar which was afterwards cracked open for the counting of the ballots.

They are not effective for killing large beetles and similar specimens, but insects that have been killed in a cyanide killing jar can be transferred to a laurel jar to await mounting.

* Canopic jar, ancient Egyptian vessel for storing organs removed by mummification procedure

He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior of the Leyden jar as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge.

Franklin imagined electricity as being a type of invisible fluid present in all matter ; for example, he believed that it was the glass in a Leyden jar that held the accumulated charge.

* Guess on items in a jar for fun and win it

Di Novi also notes that, when her father was a session musician for Day, he and the other musicians had to put money in a " swear jar " when they cursed.

For easier distribution of large programs, multiple class files may be packaged together in a. jar file ( short for Java archive ).

The idea for the Leyden jar was discovered independently by two parties: German scientist and jurist Ewald Georg von Kleist, and Dutchmen Musschenbroek and Cunaeus.

By the middle of the 19th century, the Leyden jar had become common enough for writers to assume their readers knew of and understood its basic operation.

By the early 20th century, improved dielectrics and the need to reduce their size and inductance for use in the new technology of radio caused the Leyden jar to evolve into the modern compact form of capacitor.

If a charged Leyden jar is discharged by shorting the inner and outer coatings and left to sit for a few minutes, the jar will recover some of its previous charge, and a second spark can be obtained from it.

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

The image on the front of the British jar shows a " marmite " (), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot.

Nag Hammadi is best known for being the site where local farmers found a sealed earthenware jar containing thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices, together with pages torn from another book, in December 1945.

He writes that in earlier myths, Pandora was married to Prometheus, and cites the ancient Hesiodic Catalogue of Women as preserving this older tradition, and that the jar may have at one point contained only good things for mankind.

In Hesiodic scholarship, the interpretive crux has endured: Is the imprisonment of hope inside a jar full of evils for mankind a benefit for mankind, or a further bane?

A number of mythology textbooks echo the sentiments of M. L. West: " retention in the jar is comforting, and we are to be thankful for this antidote to our present ills.

Second, does the jar preserve Elpis for men, or keep Elpis away from men?

An inkwell is a small jar or container, often made of glass, porcelain, silver, brass, or pewter, used for holding ink in a place convenient for the person who is writing.

The image of the jar filled with rain water may derive from the sac holding the amniotic liquid ; turning the jar would then be equivalent to birthgiving.

At the Late Classic Zapotec archaeological site of Lambityeco in Oaxaca, the stucco busts of Cocijo are depicted holding a jar spilling water in one hand and bolts of lightning in the other.

In art, he was usually depicted as a ram-headed man at a potter's wheel, with recently created children's bodies standing on the wheel, although he also appeared in his earlier guise as a water-god, holding a jar from which flowed a stream of water.

Raphael is depicted leading Tobit ( who is carrying a fish caught in the Tigris ) with his right hand, and holding a physician's alabaster jar in his left hand.

Bhaiṣajyaguru is typically depicted seated, wearing the three robes of a Buddhist monk, holding a lapis-colored jar of medicine nectar in his left hand and the right hand resting on his right knee, holding the stem of the Aruna fruit or Myrobalan between thumb and forefinger.

He wakes up in the morning to find Chong bursting in, dressed in what appears to be a cross between Genghis Khan and a Viking, holding a jar of " space coke ", which Chong says, " It'll blow your head off.

While he traveled with his friends, the scholar preserved all his food for the journey in a clay jar used for holding wine.

Homer and Bob go to Moe's Tavern, where a hand, holding a gun, appears at the door and fires at Homer, but it hits and shatters Moe's pickled egg jar.

He realizes that Dil is a bad, naughty baby ( hogging the blanket, not cooperating, drinking up all their milk ) and takes a jar of banana baby food, holding it above Dil's head.

The Leyden jar was seen as a confirming case for this theory since it appeared to be a jar capable of holding the electric fluid.

When Chantan returned and saw Muthappan holding the jar, he was provoked and defied the latter.

He climbed the tree and emptied the jar that was holding the toddy.

Syria n medicinal jar s made c. 1300, excavated in Fenchurch Street: an example of Islamic contributions to Medieval Europe.

* Steeped: A large venomous snake can be placed into a glass jar of rice wine, sometimes with smaller snakes and medicinal herbs and left to steep for many months.

His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Place mold or paper pattern on rolled clay and cut clay by holding knife in vertical position ( cut more pieces than required for project to make allowance for defects ; ;

By holding out prospects for external capital assistance, the United States can provide strong incentives to prepare for the concerted economic drive necessary to achieve self-sustaining growth.

It is not easy for the therapist to discern when, in the patient's communicating, an introject has appeared and is holding sway.

or allowing survival of a dividend carryover to a personal holding company ( section 381(c)(14) ), but not carryover of excess tax credits for foreign taxes??

Section 362 requires carryover of the transferor corporation's basis for property transferred, and section 1223 provides for tacking on the transferor's holding period for such property to that of the transferee.

As for me, I am holding in reserve two huge puzzles ( I love puzzles ) to put together when time hangs heavy on my hands.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.

Stand here for a few moments and look at this gem of a fountain with its four youths, each holding a tortoise and each with a foot resting on the head of a dolphin.

Having no choice, he plunged into it, anyway, holding onto the microphone for support.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

He was holding out for something.

And unsheathing the knife she used for curing hides she stepped away from the lodge, holding the knife at her side.

Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops in defense of the capital ; McClellan, who consistently overestimated the strength of Confederate troops, blamed this decision for the ultimate failure of the Peninsula Campaign.

Eurymedon the hierophant denounced Aristotle for not holding the gods in honor.

However, certain critical interlocutory court orders, such as the denial of a request for an interim injunction, or an order holding a person in contempt of court, can be appealed immediately although the case may otherwise not have been fully disposed of.

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.