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jordan

see also: Jordan

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jordan (plural jordans)

(obsolete) A vessel resembling a retort bulb or Florence flask with a truncated neck and flared mouth, used by medieval doctors and alchemists.
- 15th c., Sloane MS. 73, p. 133:
  Make a good lute... and þerwiþ daub þi Iordan al aboute... and putte al þi mater in þe Iordan and hange it ouer þe fier by þe necke þ^t þe glas be almoost an hond brede fro þe coolis.
(obsolete) A chamber pot.
- 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, p. 267:
  Iurdone, pyssepotte, iurdanus.
- a. 1598,, William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Fourth, Act II, Scene i ↗:
  2.Car. Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.

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Jordan

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Proper noun

A country in Middle East, official=Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
A river in Middle East that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
A male given name; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by crusaders.
- 1989 Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
  I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to give him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
Surname derived from the male given name.
A female given name.
A small town/county seat in Garfield County, Montana.

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