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To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.

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

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

ensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.

ss of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.

A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

to the throne, or when right principles are about to prevail. It is often represented on porcelains and other works of art.

rently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.

substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

e, and is usually collected as a solution in water. It attacks all silicates, as glass or porcelain, is the agent employed in etching glass, and is preserved only in vessels of platinum, lead, caoutchouc, or gutta-percha.

The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan.

white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar.

th century. -- Limoges ware. (a) Articles decorated with Limoges enamel. (b) Articles of porcelain, etc., manufactured at Limoges.

Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.

A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.

elicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.