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1. aceramic, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1961
...Of a culture, esp. an early Neolithic culture: lacking pottery. Also: of or relating to such a culture. Also occas. as (with the)....
2. agate, n. View full entry ?1483
...= jet1a. Obs.rare....
3. alquifou, n. View full entry 1756
...Galena (lead ore) used as the basis of a green pottery glaze, esp. in Spain and France; potter's ore....
4. apyrous, adj. View full entry 1783
...Not altered by exposure to fire....
5. arcanist, n. View full entry 1905
...Used spec. of a person who has knowledge of a secret process of manufacture, esp. of the manufacture of porcelain....
6. Argus, n. View full entry 1387
...A mythological person fabled to have had a hundred eyes. Hence, a very vigilant person, a watcher or guardian....
7. Arita, n. View full entry 1879
...The name of a town on the island of Kyushu, south-west of Japan, used attrib. to designate a variety of porcelain made in the neighbourhood since the early seventeenth century,...
8. Arretine, adj. View full entry 1782
...Of or pertaining to Arretium (modern Arezzo), an ancient city of central Italy; spec. designating fine red pottery made at Arretium and elsewhere from 100 b.c....
9. artificial, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a thing: made or constructed by human skill, esp. in imitation of, or as a substitute for, something which is made or occurs naturally; man-made....
10. Astbury, n. View full entry 1904
...Used (esp. attrib.) to designate a type of Staffordshire pottery; also in Astbury-Whieldon (see quot. 1929)....
11. aventurine | aventurin, n. View full entry 1791
...A brownish-coloured glass interspersed with small gold-coloured spangles, manufactured first at Murano, near Venice. Also called artificial aventurine, aventurine glass, gold flux....
12. bake, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To cook by dry heat acting by conduction, and not by radiation, hence either in a closed place (oven, ashes, etc.), or on a heated surface (bakestone, griddle, live coals);...
13. baking, n. View full entry 1398
...The action of the verb bake; the process of preparing bread; the hardening or ‘firing’ of earthenware. Also spec. in Typogr. (see quot.). Cf. baked...
14. baller, n.1 View full entry a1586
...Sport. A player of a ball game....
15. bamboo, n. View full entry 1598
...A genus of giant-grasses (genus Bambusa), numerous species of which are common throughout the tropics. Also the stem of any of these used as a stick, or as material....
16. band, n.2 View full entry c1394
...A strip of any material flat and thin, used to bind together, clasp, or gird....
17. Bandkeramik, n. View full entry 1921
...A type of neolithic pottery with banded decoration. Also attrib....
18. bank, n.2 View full entry 1275
...A long seat for several to sit on, a bench, or form; a platform or stage to speak from. Obs. (Cf. mountebank)...
19. barbotine, n. View full entry 1865
...A thin creamy mixture of kaolin clay used to ornament pottery; pottery ornamented with barbotine. Also attrib....
20. basalt, n. View full entry 1601
...A kind of trap rock; a greenish- or brownish-black rock, igneous in origin, of compact texture and considerable hardness, composed of augite or hornblende containing titaniferous magnetic iron and crystals of feldspar...
