"Depolishing" is a word in ENGLISH
The process of removing the vitreous glaze from
porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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On a drive in the country, a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another."Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about," said the city slicker, "but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?""Time?" said the farmer. "What does time matter to a pig?"
An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
Read the complete definitionAn imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.
Read the complete definitionA species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
Read the complete definitionEarthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
Read the complete definitionUnglazed white porcelain.
Read the complete definitionA white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, …
Read the complete definitionAn ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.
Read the complete definitiona small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
Read the complete definitionA small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.
Read the complete definitionA brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is …
Read the complete definitionA pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.
Read the complete definitionA process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to …
Read the complete definitionChina ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.
Read the complete definitionThe breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
Read the complete definitionA condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked …
Read the complete definitionCovered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
Read the complete definitionTo crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Read the complete definitionA small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in …
Read the complete definitionAllowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
Read the complete definitionA superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.
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