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

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.

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

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.

Glazing or glass. [Obs.]

The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.

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.

Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different- colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.

dants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse. Jesse window (Arch.), a window of which the glazing and tracery represent the tree of Jesse.

A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.

nt of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.

rface, -- used for women's dresses. Luster ware, earthenware decorated by applying to the glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the process of baking.

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

ing to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.

To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.