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Webster 1913 Edition
Frit
1.
(Glass Making)
The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
Ure.
2.
(Ceramics)
The material for glaze of pottery.
Frit brick
, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.
Frit
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fritted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fritting
.] To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Ure.
Frit
,Verb.
T.
To fritter; – with away.
[R.]
Ld. Lytton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Frit
FRIT
,Noun.
In the manufacture of glass, the matter of which glass is made after it has been calcined or baked in a furnace. It is a composition of silex and fixed alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.