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Firing :: Firing (n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.

Furnace :: Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc..

Lustering :: Lustering (n.) The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery..

Delftware :: Delftware (n.) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence.

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery..

Ceramics :: Ceramics (n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc..

Stillness :: Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying..

Palissy :: Palissy (a.) Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry..

Wedgwood Ware :: Wedgwood ware () A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels..

Figuline :: Figuline (n.) A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.

Smeir :: Smeir (n.) A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze..

Basalt :: Basalt (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain..

Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. 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 proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

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

Craze :: Craze (v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery..

Scroddled Ware :: Scroddled ware () Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc..

Fictile :: Fictile (a.) Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material..

Sigillated :: Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Seggar :: Seggar (n.) A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin..

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