noun
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A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.
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A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age)
verb
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To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
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To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Examples of frit in a Sentence
The best-known dipterous pests are the Hessian fly (Cecidosnyia destructor), the pear midge (Diplosis pyrivora), the fruit flies (Tephritis Tyroni of Queensland and Halterophora capitata or the Mediterranean fruit fly), the onion fly (Phorbia cepetorum), and numerous corn pests, such as the gout fly (Chloropstaeniopus) and the frit fly (Oscinis frit).
Though glaze begins so early, the use of the glassy matter by itself does not occur till the XVIIIth Dynasty; the earlier reputed examples are of stone or frit.
The silica was needed quite pure from iron, in order to get the rich blues, and was obtained from calcined quartz pebbles; ordinary sand will only make a green frit.
The colored frit thus Formed was used as paint in a wet state, and also used to dissolve Ln glass or to fuse over a surface in glazing.
Strange seasons also produce strange results - I have never found stem bulbils on Frit aurea before.
If they use one part of [brayed] lajvard to forty parts of glaze frit it becomes transparent blue like a sapphire.
Frit thunbergi Another of the Chinese frit thunbergi Another of the Chinese frits of which there have been forms in cultivation for a very long time is Frit thunbergii.
Chinese frit bulb This picture shows very clearly the simple twin scale type of frit bulb This picture shows very clearly the simple twin scale type of fritillaria bulb.
Below, in front of the oven, is a pit full of water, into which they put the glass frit.