Glaze: A smooth clear icy coating of supercooled water droplets that spread out and freeze onto objects on contact. A storm that produces the accretion of glaze is called an ice storm.

 

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Glaze: A smooth clear icy coating of supercooled water droplets that spread out and freeze onto objects on contact. A storm that produces the accretion of glaze is called an ice storm.

Glazed Wash: Any transparent wash of color laid over a dry, previously painted area. Used to adjust color, value, or intensity of underlying painting. (Glaze)

Glazer: Machine on which wet fiber base prints are placed face down in contact with a polished surface, such a chromed steel, and held by tension. The surface is then heated to dry the print.

Reglaze: To replace a broken window.

Dressing: The lane conditioner; the act of applying lane conditioner.

Streak: The color of a mineral in powdered form. Streak is normally determined by scraping a specimen across a surface of unglazed porcelain known as a 'streak plate'.

Yixing: pronounced ee-hsing, this region in China is noted for its purple clay, used to produce distinctive unglazed teapots.

Pigment In Paint: For details of lakes, glazes and other artist-colourants, see: Colour Pigments, History, Types.

Streak Plate: A piece of unglazed porcelain that is used for determining the streak of a mineral specimen.

Frottis: Thin transparent or semi-transparent glazes rubbed into the ground in the intitial phases of an oil painting. From the French term 'frotter', meaning 'to rub'.