- 1. n. Purslain. Source: opted
- 2. n. 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. Source: opted
- 3. n. ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic Source: wordnet
- 4. Purslain. [Obs.] 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a cowry. Source: webster
- 5. Purslain. [Obs.] Source: adambom
- 6. n:100 n. ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic Source: ecdict
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