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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..

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

Glaze :: Glaze (n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refractory :: Refractory (n.) OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles..

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

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

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

Majolica :: Majolica (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century..

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..

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

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..

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery..

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