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A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.

Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells.

A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.

A shallow seggar for porcelain. Ure.

Porcelain manufactured at Sèvres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.

Cloisonné enamel on a background of metal or porcelain.

no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain. Chaucer. The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities. Dryden.

ich is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it. Fairholt.

glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.

hich is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.

ificial used; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland. No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold. Pope.

e under Cadmium, Chrome, etc. -- Naples yellow, a yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt. -- Patent yellow (Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead ox…

owder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer prop…