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A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
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A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.
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Relating to Holland; Dutch.
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Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.
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A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
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A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.
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One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
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The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
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A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
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Gin made in Holland.
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A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
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A polliwig. Holland.
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Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
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See Holland.
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Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands.
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A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.
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A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker.
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Holland gin.
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A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.
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A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.
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