Definitions for frit

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IPA: /frɪt/

Frit is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in frit (firt).

Definitions for frit

noun

  1. Ceramics. a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels. the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
  2. fused or calcined material prepared as part of the batch in glassmaking.

verb (used with object)

  1. to fuse (materials) in making frit.

Origin of frit

1655-65; Italian fritta, feminine past participle of friggere to fry Latin frīgere to roast

Examples for frit

Them lawyers is a tricky pack, and they know how to mix a fellow up, till he don't know crystal from frit.

frit, frit, n. the mixed materials of which glass is made, after being heated until they fuse partially without melting.

fritillary, frit′il-lar-i, n. a genus of plants of the order Liliace, with drooping purple flowers: a species of butterfly.

For the old Svres soft porcelain, the frit was crushed, cleared of salts, and ground in water.

Mr. Wardle found that sort of exercise wholesome, and, as the gardener expressed it, “was not frit to take his coat off.”

This base he ascertained to be a frit, made by means of soda and sand, and coloured by oxide of copper.

When the fusion is complete, the vitreous matter is to be poured into clear water, and the frit is then dried, and melted anew.

From frit or flux, fused with oxide of lead, and a little red oxide of iron.

Usually the frit, a material similar to glass, is crushed to powder beneath stone rollers called chasers.

Flux or frit, coloured with oxide of gold, purple precipitate of cassius, or peroxide of manganese.

Word Value for frit
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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