(n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In earthenware vessels from the Moche period (200-700 A.D.) pathological findings of nasal deformities have been depicted in a realistic manner.
(2) As she fills the earthenware pot, she counts herself lucky not to be in a refugee camp in neighbouring Niger Republic or among the 234 girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from a physics exam in GGSS Chibok and taken to the Sambisa Forest reserve , leaving their parents and an entire country distraught .
(3) In a very large soup pot (I typically use a 11.5 litre stainless-steel stock pot or a medium-large Mexican earthenware cazuela), heat the lard or oil over medium.
(4) The 19th century saw the introduction of the first coloured earthenware and the manufacture of bone china.
(5) The results of the analysis seem to suggest differences in blood levels by sex, zone of residence, hours of transportation and eating habits, such as the consumption of canned meals and the use of "earthenware dishes" in the preparation of meals.
(6) aegypti breeding habitats were ant traps, earthenware jars, bowls, tanks, tin cans, and drums, ant traps being the most common indoors and earthenware jars the most common out doors.
(7) Deposit plates, anodized aluminium, glazed earthenware plates, and polystyren, glass, "Tergal" cloth plates were used in 8 urban sites and 1 extra-urban site during 1 to 3 months.
(8) The craft production of earthenware recipients that have been inadequately glazed and their improper use as containers of drings of foods could be commoner than might be thought on the basis of the sporadic reporting of such cases of lead poisoning.
(9) The proportion of positive stored water samples was also lower with the use of different vessels for collection and storage, with storage inside the house, and with use of a storage container other than an earthenware pot.
(10) Storage using earthenware pots for six weeks resulted in significant losses of vitamin C. In general, traditional methods for processing, preservation and storage of vegetables cause significant losses of nutrients, an effect that could account for poor, nutritional status in Morogoro region (Tanzania).
(11) It bought the pottery manufacturer Denby for £30m in 2009 and continues to run it, adding earthenware firm Burleigh in 2010 and Somerset-based Poole Pottery in 2011.
(12) In the production of earthenware relatively high concentrations of dust occur only temporarily, but in very few cases they may cause silicosis.
(13) Caravaggio leapt up, hit him with an earthenware dish and drew his ever-ready sword, but one of his friends restrained him from killing the waiter.
(14) The most famous artist of the moment, Ai Weiwei, imprisoned and then released by the Chinese authorities, is another YBA-influenced figure with his huge studios in China, where a team of assistants follow his instructions delivered in mobile phone calls and occasional visits, and where scores of old Chinese earthenware vases half-dipped in random primary colours are arranged in large grids as installations.
(15) It was found that the decoction made by means of glassware, enamel and earthenware pots had the best effect of inhibiting the colony formation of human gastric carcinoma cells, the next were the decoctions made by means of unrefined iron pots, stainless steel pots and copper pots, and the worst was that made with aluminium pots.
(16) Two methods-chlorination of stored water and the use of a narrow-necked earthenware vessel (called a 'sorai') for storing the water-were found to be effective in reducing the transmission of infection among the family contacts of cholera patients.
(17) There are tombs and cloisters and bits of earthenware crockery which might have come from the kitchen of the Casa de Mar, rather than being dropped by a butter-fingered monk 700 years ago.
(18) He recalls dining in the south of France with his friend and mentor, the cookery writer Richard Olney, who served tripe that had been gently cooked for a day in an earthenware container.
(19) aegypti and Mesocyclops, both copepod species eliminated all immatures in earthenware pots by week 3.
Jug
Definition:
(n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
(n.) A pitcher; a ewer.
(n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.
(v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
(v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.
(v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
(v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) Allow to cool slightly for a few minutes before serving, with a jug of chilled cream alongside.
(3) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(4) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
(5) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
(6) I requested a jug from the nurse but she said the jug was broken and they had no others available.
(7) They took the term skiffle from a favourite record, Home Town Skiffle, a compilation of American jug band styles and western swing.
(8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
(9) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
(10) If anything, his brother David looks more like Wallace because he really does have Wallace-style jug ears.
(11) When a glass+jug (900 ml) was visible the alcoholics drank significantly more than the non-alcoholics.
(12) The product was jugged to be galactonic acid, based on the behavior of the acetylmethyl ester derivative of the product and the pentaacetyl derivative of the galactonic methyl ester during gas chromatography.
(13) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
(14) Earlier this year, Waitrose reported that sales of 1 litre mixing bowls had more than doubled, measuring jug sales had quadrupled and rolling pins were up 40% .
(15) A row of Toby jugs grinned and grimaced from an ornament rail in the hall.
(16) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
(17) I was disciplined for not changing the water often enough for a woman I was caring for despite the jug never being less than half full.
(18) Thymol mouthwash which had been made up and distributed in communal jugs was found to be contaminated with the epidemic strain and was the likely source for this outbreak.
(19) The woman declined an offer to post the jugs back to her afterwards, and the constable now has one "at home as a little keepsake because I thought it was such a nice gesture".
(20) He is, for instance, technically taller than Martin Freeman but not by much more than a jug of Bree's finest hobbit ale.