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

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

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..

Nonesuch :: Nonesuch (n.) A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc..

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..

Ceramic :: Ceramic (a.) Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings..

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

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..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln..

Ceramics :: Ceramics (n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc..

Firing :: Firing (n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.

Glazer :: Glazer (n.) 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..

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

Lustering :: Lustering (n.) The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery..

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..

Scroddled Ware :: Scroddled ware () Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc..

Sigillated :: Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Celadon :: Celadon (n.) A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint..

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..

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