Word Meanings - PORCELAINIZED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

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• POTTERN
  Of or pertaining 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.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• BAKING
  1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• PORCELAIN
  Purslain.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
  A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• BAKISTRE
  A baker. Chaucer.
• POTTERY
  1. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked. 2. The place where earthen vessels are made.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• BAKERY
  1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.