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Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

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

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.

Same as Earthen. [Obs.] "An arthen pot." Holland.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. -- Chimney swallow. (Zoöl.) (a) An American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rust…

A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. [Archaic] A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. Tennyson.

A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

terwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.