smalts
(smɔːlts)
[app. the plural of smalt taken as a sing.]
= smalt n. 1.
| 1610 W. Folkingham Art Surv. ii. vi. 57 Pasture would be put into a deeper Greene made of the mixture of Azure and Smalts with Pincke. 1669 Sturmy Mar. Mag. vii. xxxiv. 49 With Blew Smalts strew very thick the Border while it is wet. 1800 Henry Epit. Chem. (1808) 257 The substance termed smalts, used as a colouring substance. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 64 The calx of Cobalt has the property, that it can be melted into a blue glass, called smalts. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 82/2 The principal use of smalts is for bluing paper. |