bell jar
a bell-shaped glass jar or cover for protecting delicate instruments, bric-a-brac, or the like, or for containing gases or a vacuum in chemical experiments.
Origin of bell jar
1- Also called bell glass.
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How to use bell jar in a sentence
He painted the frames himself; and, being afraid of too much sunlight, he smeared over all the bell-glasses with chalk.
Bouvard and Pcuchet | Gustave FlaubertA little of this powder was placed on the leaves of five small sorbs, which were damped and placed under bell-glasses.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt CookeBell glasses for aquaria are to be obtained of any of the dealers in aquarian stock, and at most horticultural glass warehouses.
The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet | Shirley HibberdSo much the worse if they fall on his bell-glasses and on his garden-frames!
A Chambermaid's Diary | Octave MirbeauHe claims damages and interest for the breaking of his bell-glasses and his frames, and for the devastation of the garden.
A Chambermaid's Diary | Octave Mirbeau
British Dictionary definitions for bell jar
a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect flower arrangements or fragile ornaments or to cover apparatus in experiments, esp to prevent gases escaping
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