unˈglazed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. (in sense 2) MDu. ongeglaset.]
1. Not glazed or having a smooth shining surface.
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 43/2 Combure it to poulder in an vnglazede pot. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 211 Put these into an earthen pan unglazed. 1694 Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 497/2 Lemery heats an unglazed Pot or Crucible red hot. 1744 Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) viii. 300 Tar-water is best made in glazed earthen vessels;..it is finer and clearer when so made than if in unglazed crocks. 1799 G. Smith Laboratory I. 95 Then take an unglazed pot, or a large crucible. 1844 Noad Electricity (ed. 2) 160 These porous jars..are now composed of the thinnest unglazed biscuit ware. 1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Ind. Art S. Kens. Mus. 208 Made of common red clay, unglazed. |
2. Not filled in with glass; lacking glass windows.
| 1608 Presentment in Essex Rev. XV. 46 The churchyard is unfensed, the windows unglazed. a 1721 Prior Down-Hall xxxvii, O now a low ruin'd white Shed I discern, Untyl'd and unglaz'd; I believe 'tis a Barn. 1816 Q. Rev. XVI. 346 Unglazed windows, balconies, and lattices,—shops without windows. 1862 Lytton Str. Story I. 215 The cornice of the ceiling rested on pilasters, within which the compartments were formed into open unglazed arches. |