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Webster 1913 Edition


Wedgwood ware

Wedg′woodˊ wareˊ

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[From the name of the inventor, Josiah
Wedgwood
, of England.]
A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called
jasper
, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.