Word Meanings - STONEWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

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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.
• 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
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
  A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
• GLAZY
  Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
• 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.
• BAKERY
  1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
• BAKE
  bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. Note: Baking is
• POTTER
  The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. Potter's asthma , emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers. -- Potter's clay. See under Clay. -- Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for
• BAKEN
  p. p. of Bake.
• BAKINGLY
  In a hot or baking manner.
• 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
• COARSEN
  To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. Graham.
• GLAZEN
  Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. Wyclif.
• 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
• GLAZIER
  One whose business is to set glass. Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond.
• BAKSHEESH; BAKSHISH
  See BACKSHEESH
• HARDBAKE
  A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.
• DEGLAZE
  To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• DEGLAZING
  The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.
• HAWEBAKE
  Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. Chaucer.
• DOUGH-BAKED
  Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. Halliwell.
• 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.