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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A glass vessel used as a measure of capacity as well as a drinking-glass, shaped like a much elongated wine-glass, formerly in use in England.
  • noun A glass vessel having the shape of an elongated cone, the small end communicating with a hollow ball.

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