enamelENAM'EL, n. In the arts, a substance of the nature of glass, differing from it by a greater degree of fusibility or opacity. Enamels have for their basis a pure crystal glass or frit, ground with a fine oxyd of lead and tin. These baked together are the matter of enamels, and the color is varied by adding other substances, Oxyd of gold gives a red color; that of copper, a green; manganese, a violet; cobalt, a blue; and iron, a fine black.
ENAM'EL, v.t. To lay enamel on a metal, as on gold, silver, copper, &c. |