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Vitrified

adjective
1.
(of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it.  Synonyms: glassy, vitreous.  "Glassy porcelain" , "Hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"






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"Vitrified" Quotes from Famous Books



... brick and mortar dumped at random over the cheerless soil. Above swam the marvellous clarified atmosphere of the sky, like iridescent gauze, showering a thousand harmonies of metallic colors. Like a dome of vitrified glass, it shut down on the illimitable, ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... only for special reasons. Emergency rocket take-offs and landings were necessary training for war conditions anyhow. So the take-off ground was pitted and scarred with burnt-over circles, where no living thing grew and where very often the clay beneath the humus top-layer was vitrified by rocket-flames. ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... lining of lime-kilns it turns to good account; for the workmen use sandy loam instead of mortar; the sand of which fluxes* and runs by the intense heat, and so cases over the whole face of the kiln with a strong vitrified, coat like glass, that it is well preserved from injuries of weather, and endures thirty or forty years. When chiseled smooth, it makes elegant fronts for houses, equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone; and superior in one respect, that, when seasoned, it does not scale. Decent chimney- ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White

... did not reply. She then went to his house—the great house she had lived in so happily for a time—with its front of dun brick, vitrified here and there and its heavy sash-bars—but Henchard was to be found there no more. The ex-Mayor had left the home of his prosperity, and gone into Jopp's cottage by the Priory Mill—the sad purlieu to which he had wandered on the night ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy



Words linked to "Vitrified" :   ceramics, shiny, vitreous, glazed



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