ware : Idioms & Phrases

Bid"der*y ware`

Etymology

From Beder or Bidar a town in India.

Definitions

1. A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.

Webster 1913

• noun utensils made from ceramic material
  

WordNet

• porcelain; so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europa at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general.

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Dres"den ware`

Definitions

1. A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

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• ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort.

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• garden truck. Obs. Mortimer.

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• . (a) A kind of stoneware. (b) A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite.

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• articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked.

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• hollow vessels; a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

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• a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of receiving color.

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• a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in appearance.

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• . (a) Articles decorated with Limoges enamel . (b) Articles of porcelain, etc., manufactured at Limoges.

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• earthenware decorated by applying to the glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the process of baking.

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• glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.

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• glazed English earthenware of a cream color.

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Ra"ku ware`

Definitions

1. A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color.

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• noun earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos
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WordNet

Sat"su*ma ware"

Definitions

1. (Fine Arts) A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.

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Scrod"dled ware`

Definitions

1. Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

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Sè"vres ware` (Also<

• Sevres ware
• Sèvres ware

)

Definitions

1. Porcelain manufactured at Sèvres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the brant; so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. Prov. Eng.

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Wedg"wood` ware`

Etymology

From the name of the inventor, Josiah Wedgwood, of England.

Definitions

1. A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.

Webster 1913

• a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood.

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