Word Meanings - RABAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

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• POTTERN
  Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.
• BAKING
  1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
  A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• BAKISTRE
  A baker. Chaucer.
• POTTERY
  1. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked. 2. The place where earthen vessels are made.
• BAKERY
  1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
• BAKE
  bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. Note: Baking is
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• POTTER
  The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. Potter's asthma , emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers. -- Potter's clay. See under Clay. -- Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for
• MATERIALISM
  1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to
• BAKEN
  p. p. of Bake.
• MATERIALIZATION
  The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
• POLISH
  Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
• HARDBAKE
  A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.
• IMMATERIALLY
  1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree.
• COMMATERIAL
  Consisting of the same material. Bacon.
• SUPERMATERIAL
  Being above, or superior to, matter.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.