jordan

jordan englanniksi

1. Jordan

1. A vessel resembling a retort bulb or flask with a truncated neck and flared mouth, used by medieval doctors and alchemists.

2. 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 þt þe glas be almoost an hond brede fro þe coolis.

3. A pot.

4. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1)