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ad 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.

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

en 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…

Of or resembling sapphire; sapphire; blue. "The sapphire blaze." Gray.

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.

To obscure; to dim the brightness of. Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams. Milton.

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

ctivity; quiet but not dead. Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson.

e it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired. Fuller.

le burning, so as to burst there with a crack. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone.

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

l; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. Addison. Everything was going on straight. W. Black.

f or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx. At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect. Milton.

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.

es. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. Milton.

Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse. [Written also trammelled.]

A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." Milton.

n, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. Milton.