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A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces within can be judged.

painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.

A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle. Mortimer.

coal mine. -- Pit head, the surface of the ground at the mouth of a pit or mine. -- Pit kiln, an oven for coking coal. -- Pit martin (Zoöl.), the bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pit of the stomach (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the in…

Vapor; steam; smoke; fume. As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. Shak.

OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. Knight.

A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a segga.

e earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery. -- Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite. -- Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks. -- Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick tea, under Bric…

A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

l head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft…