transitive. To close (a glass vessel or tube) by pressing together the heated end of the neck. Also with up. Obsolete.

Glass-making. transitive ? To bring to a certain heat.

To melt or fuse (the materials for making glass); to make (glass) by melting the materials in a furnace.

Brickmaking, Ceramics, Founding, etc. transitive. To remove (bricks, glass, pottery, etc.) from a mould. Also of a mould: to release (a brick…

transitive. To make into frit; to fuse partially; to calcine.

technical. Glass-making. To collect (a quantity of melted glass) on the end of the blowing-tube.

Glass-making. to wet off, up. (See quots. and cf. wetter, n. 1b, wetting, n. 3d.)

transitive. To roll (glass) on a marver; to apply (a pattern) by rolling glass on a marver.

transitive. To form (glass, etc.) into a plate.

transitive. In glass-painting: to cover (glass) with a layer of colour smoothed over with a soft brush.