cover-coat vitreous enamel

  • 1enamel — I. transitive verb ( eled or elled; eling or enamelling) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French enameller, from en + asmal, esmal enamel, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German smelzan to melt more at smelt Date: 14th century 1. to… …

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  • 2enamelwork — e·nam·el·work (ĭ nămʹəl wûrk ) n. 1. Decorative work done in enamel. 2. Enamelware. * * * Metal objects decorated with an opaque glaze fused to the surface by intense heat. The resulting surface is hard and durable and can be brilliantly… …

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  • 3Optics — For the book by Sir Isaac Newton, see Opticks. Optical redirects here. For the musical artist, see Optical (artist). Optics includes study of dispersion of light. Optics is the branch of …

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  • 4Clan of Ostoja — The Clan of Ostoja was a powerful group of Knights and Lords in late medieval Europe. The clan encompassed several families in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, Upper Hungary (Slovakia), Hungary, Transylvania, Belorus, Ukraine and Prussia. The… …

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  • 5Pottery — Pot and Pots redirect here. For Pot, see Pot (disambiguation). For POTS, see POTS (disambiguation). Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum …

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  • 6pottery — /pot euh ree/, n., pl. potteries. 1. ceramic ware, esp. earthenware and stoneware. 2. the art or business of a potter; ceramics. 3. a place where earthen pots or vessels are made. [1475 85; POTTER1 + Y3] * * * I One of the oldest and most… …

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  • 7glaze — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. luster, shine; coating; ice; glass, glassiness. See smoothness, covering. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. enamel, polish, varnish; see finish 2 . v. Syn. glass, incrust, coat, make vitreous, overlay, cover,… …

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  • 8glaze — [n] varnish, lacquer coat, enamel, finish, glint, gloss, luster, patina, polish, sheen, shine; concepts 259,475 Ant. stripper glaze [v] varnish, lacquer buff, burnish, coat, cover, enamel, furbish, glance, glass, gloss, incrust, make lustrous,… …

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