FRIT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Frit

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Frit n.

(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.

(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.

See images of 'Frit'

Etymology of 'Frit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Frit" Quotes from Famous Books

... she opened the door, Joe always felt a thrill run through him as if some extraordinary thing had happened. It was a kind of jump; and yet he had jumped many times before that: "it wasn't the sort of jump," he said, "as a chap gits either from bein' frit or bein' pleased." And what to make of it he didn't know. Then Polly's cap was about the loveliest thing, next to Polly herself, he had ever seen. It was more like a May blossom than anything else, or a beautiful ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

... Sponge — N. sponge, honeycomb, network; frit[Chem], filter. sieve, net, screen (opening) 260. Adj. cellular, spongy, spongious[obs3]; honeycombed, alveolar; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus