Porcelain

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.

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porcelain - ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic

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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