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Casserole :: Casserole (n.) A small round dish with a handle, usually of 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..

Depolishing :: Depolishing (n.) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain..

Earthenware :: Earthenware (n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain..

Borax :: Borax (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O..

Sevres Ware :: Sevres ware () Porcelain manufactured at Sevres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there..

Elaidic :: Elaidic (a.) Relating to oleic acid, or elaine..

Bisque :: Bisque (n.) Unglazed white porcelain.

Elain :: Elain (n.) Same as Olein.

Lithophane :: Lithophane (n.) Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade..

Kaoline :: Kaoline (n.) A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar..

Diaphanous :: Diaphanous (a.) Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear..

Crackled :: Crackled (a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

Porcellaneous :: Porcellaneous (a.) Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Melain :: Melain (n.) The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.

Elaine :: Elaine (n.) Alt. of Elai.

China :: China (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain..

Cementation :: Cementation (n.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand..

Delaine :: Delaine (n.) A kind of fabric for women's dresses.

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