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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Jŏr'den, n.

noun

n. [i. e., earthen (sc. pot), from Dan. jord, earth. See EARTH.]

  1. A kind of pot or vessel formerly used by physicians and alchemists, having a neck not much smaller than the body of the vessel. Halliwell.
  2. Hence, a chamber-pot; a urinal. Shak.