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

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..

Pottery :: Pottery (n.) The place where earthen vessels are made.

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

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..

Glazing :: Glazing (n.) The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper..

Pottery :: Pottery (n.) The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked..

Glost Oven :: Glost oven () An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Barbotine :: Barbotine (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

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

Ectype :: Ectype (n.) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:.

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..

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime..

Cup :: Cup (n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like..

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