a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc.

Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like.

formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; – not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England.

firm or solid earth, as opposed to .

Same as

Gambier

. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan.

Lemnian earth. See under

Lemnian

.

barite, or heavy spar.

See

Sienna

.