Porcelain

Definition of Porcelain

Por´ce`lain

n.

1.

(Bot.) Purslain.

1.

A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; - called also China, or China ware.

Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break.

- Dryden.

Ivory porcelain
porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.

Porcelain clay
See under Clay.

Porcelain crab
(Zool.) any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace.

Porcelain jasper
(Min.) See Porcelanite.

Porcelain printing
the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain.

Porcelain shell
(Zool.) a cowry.

Related Words

adobe, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, clay, crock, crockery, enamel, enamelware, firebrick, glass, jug, pot, pottery, refractory, tile, tiling, urn, vase

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