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A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.

, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

ca, but less brilliantly decorated, esp. such pottery without tin enamel, but painted and glazed.

usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots. -- Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.…

, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.

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

A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

ead or copper. -- Queen's pigeon. (Zoöl.) Same as Queen pigeon, above. -- Queen's ware, glazed English earthenware of a cream color. -- Queen's yellow (Old Chem.), a heavy yellow powder consisting of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- formerly called turpetum minerale, or Turbith's mineral.

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

een two floors. Saddle bar (Arch.), one the small iron bars to which the lead panels of a glazed window are secured. Oxf. Gloss. -- Saddle gall (Far.), a sore or gall upon a horse's back, made by the saddle. -- Saddle girth, a band passing round the body of a horse to hold the saddle in its place. -- saddle horse, a…

The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.

A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze.

A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." Milton.

material intended to be secured directly to the woodwork of a French casement window or a glazed door.