What does "frit" mean?

Frit: (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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. Ure.
  2. 3.To fritter; -- with away. [R.] Ld. Lytton.

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