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The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.

inishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

Double time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

olishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum. -- Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

achine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.

orcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

The material for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.

A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." Bacon.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. Boyle.

Glassy; glazed. [Obs.] And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.

Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.