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Population (2000): 1314 Housing Units (2000): 542 Land area (2000): 1.155944 sq. miles (2.993882 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.155944 sq. miles (2.993882 sq. km) FIPS code: 38825 Located within: New ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Jordan \Jor"dan\, Jorden \Jor"den\, n. [Prob. fr. the river Jordan, and shortened fr. Jordan bottle a bottle of water from the Jordan, brought back by pilgrims.] A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists. [Obs.] --Halliwell. ...
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Jordan (; ), officially The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ( ), is an Arab kingdom in Western Asia , on the East Bank of the Jordan River . Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the east and south, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north, Israel , Palestine ...
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n. 1 (context obsolete English) A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists. 2 (context obsolete English) A chamber pot.
Usage examples of jordan.
The same pity Jordan had felt for the cheerful little waif who had saved his life and looked at him with huge, adoring eyes.
No credible firsthand witness ever appeared to support the allegation, and Jordan was probably innocent of spitting on a woman.
On the central allegation, he was convinced that Jordan had not taken cocaine.
The allegation on the tapes that Vernon Jordan was trying to silence Lewinsky with a job was the perfect link to their investigation of Jordan, whom they suspected was trying to silence Webster Hubbell by helping him get a lucrative contract with Revlon.
Jones case was specifically about Clinton allegedly asking for oral sex, why did Jordan not ask Lewinsky about oral sex?
Another theory, based on one of the apocryphal books of the Bible, is that to prevent the Babylonians from finding the Ark, the Prophet Jeremiah hid it in a cave on Mount Nebo in Jordan.
The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.
Jordan quitting its green and happy valley for the bitter waters of Asphaltites, and, in the extreme distance, the blue mountains of Moab.
But Jordan and other engineers at Stanford believed that the device might have a few practical applications and before long it became clear how stunningly correct they were - the audion was the first electronic vacuum tube, and its descendants ultimately made possible radio, television, radar, medical monitors, navigation systems and computers themselves.
Memories of the hundreds who had allowed the Jordan to cover them as they rested in the arms of the Baptist filled his mind.
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ should not have been baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it seems that Christ should rather have been baptized in the sea than in the river Jordan.
Therefore it seems unfitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it was not fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.