Word Meanings - DEGLAZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.

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• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• PORCELAIN
  Purslain.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• POTTERY
  1. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked. 2. The place where earthen vessels are made.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• GLAZE
  To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to , to modify the effect. (more info) 1. To furnish with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with
• GLAZEN
  Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. Wyclif.
• FINISHING
  The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.
• GLAZER
  1. 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. 2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung
• PORCELAINIZED
  Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.
• FINISH
  ish: see -ish.),fr. L. finire to limit, finish, end, fr. finis boundary, limit, end; perh. for fidnis, and akin findere to cleave, 1. To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate. And heroically
• FINISHED
  Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education. Finished work , work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.
• HIGH-FINISHED
  Finished with great care; polished.
• DEGLAZE
  To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.
• OVERGLAZE
  Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.
• UNFINISHED
  Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.
• UNGLAZE
  To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.
• UNDERGLAZE
  Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.