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One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

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

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.

a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different- colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.

) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. -- Green woodpecker (Zoöl.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.

sion of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc.

One who contrives or originates; a plotter. A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift.

e Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion. Abp Potter.

d, earthy ore of iron. Clay ironstone. See under Clay. -- Ironstone china, a hard white pottery, first made in England during the 18th century.

s, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.

table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

The sea otter.

A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock. See Illusts. of Cotter, and Gib.

A prize in a lottery. [Obs.] Evelyn. To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast lots, to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined. -- To draw lots, to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing…

The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.

One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.

Italian pottery of the epoch and general character of majolica, but less brilliantly decorated, esp. such pottery without tin enamel, but painted and glazed.

The mink; -- called also minx otter. [Obs.]