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[LYE.] Ley-den, s. [A city of Holland, twenty-two miles southwest of Amsterdam. The name of the city is given to the jar because Vanleigh, the inventor, was born there.] Leyden-battery, s . Electricity: A number of Leyden jars connected externally by resting on a metallic surface, and in- ternally by rods and wires. Leyden-jar, Leyden-phial, s . Elect.: A gla bottle having its interior coated with tin foil or filled with thin leaves of copper or of gold leaf. The outside is also coated with tin foil up to a certain distance from the neck. The (1) Lex mercat or i a : Mercantile law. (2) Lex non script a : The unwritten or common neck has a cork, through which pa es a bra rod law of the land. (3) Lex script a : Statute law. (4) Lex talion is : The law or principle of retaliation; the law directing that the punishment shall be of the same nature as the crime; as, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, . words.]