ware 
from red to dark brown, and approaching black, produced 
by the chemist J. F. Bottger about 1708-9 in the course 
of his experiments in the search for porcelain. (6) The 
first real or kaolinic porcelain produced in Europe : it was 
first made by Bottler about 1710. — Bristol Delft ware, 
an enameled pottery made at Bristol throughout the eigh- 
teenth century, especially a highly decorated ware in 
which landscapes, figure-subjects, etc., covering the whole 
dlBh, bottom and marly alike, and plates or dishes closely 
imitated from Chinese enameled porcelain, are iticluded. 
This decorative Delft has not been manufactured since 
1788. Jeicitt. — Bristol Waxe. S^me&sdoubie-glazcdware. 
— Caffa^OlO ware, a variety of the Italian enameled and 
painted earthenware known as majolica. It was made in 
the tlf teentli and sixteenth centuries at a factory belonging 
to the family of the Medici in the village of Caffagiolo, on 
the road l>etween Florence and Bologna. The name is also 
spelled, according to the irregular orthography of the time, 
Ca/agiol, CafajiiUo, Cafa>jgilolo, Ca/agiztAto. The marks 
of this factory are much varied, but generally include the 
words in Caffagiolo Variously Bi)elled. A characteristic 
mark of these wares is the free use of a dark but extremely 
brilliant blue often in large masses, also a biilliant but 
opaque orange, and an opaque Indian rt- d. iletalUc lus- 
ter was early used at Caff agiolu.—Can ton lacquer-ware. 
See liKquer-ware. — CaBhan ware, same as Kashee ware. 
Fortnum, 8. K. Handbook, ilajolica.— CasteUi Ware, 
pottery made at Caatelli, in eastern Italy; specifically, 
an enameled and richly decorated iwjttery made during 
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and even later. 
This magnificent ware preserves some of the character- 
istics of majolica, but is more pictorial in its decoration, 
being painted with landscapes, ntythological scenes, etc. 
The colors are often heightened with gold.— Cologne 
ware, a name commonly given to the hard stoneware of 
which ornamental jui^s, tankards, etc., were made, es* 
pecially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and 
formerly called gres de Flandrex, The city of Cologne 
waa the chief seat of this manufacture. Compare 'jri-s 
de Ftamfre^ (Tinder ,'/re«) and gtoneware. — Combed ware. 
See comAi . — Coralline ware. Hee airalline, — Crackled 
ware. See cracWcd.— Cream-colored ware, iK>ttery or 
stoneware having a cream-colored jtasto ; specifically, a 
variety of the fine table-ware made by \Vcd;^wood in the 
latter part of the eighteenth century. This ware was after- 
ward called queen'4-irare, from the supposed preference of 
Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. The cream-colored 
ware or queen's-ware made by other potters was copied 
closely from that of Wedgwoo<i. — Crystalline ware, tiee 
CTv»to//in«.— Cullen waret, Cologne ware. — Delft ware, 
(a) Pottery made in and near the town of Delft in Holland ; 
specifically, pieces for table use, and decorated vases for 
h century. (From " L'Art pour Tous.") 
domestic interiors. Pottery has )>een made in this place 
from ancient times, and dated pieces exist as old as the 
beginning of the sixteenth century; but the importation 
from China and Japan of Oriental porcelain stimulated 
the decorators of later times, so that the richest pieces are 
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (6) A name 
given in England to vessels of iKitttry for domestic use, es- 
pecially for table service. It is common to discriminate 
pottenr from pent lain by th-' name Del/t or Del/, and also 
D^-ehina, etc. — DeUa Robbla wares, (a) A name given 
to a class of pottery used for works of art in relief and in 
the round: generally asserted t** have been invented by 
Luca della Kobhia in the fifteenth century. It has a hard 
and well-baked Ixxly of brown tem-cotta. upon which a 
white sUnniferous enamel is applied, lliis is in some 
cases left white, or white with a background of blue; in 
others, all parts of the comiKwltion are rii hly decorated 
with color, especially green, yellow, and purple or maroon. 
The largest and most clab<irate Works in Della Robbia ware 
were made after Lucas death, the most important of all be 
Ing. perhaps, the frieze on the hospital at IMstoia. Central 
Italy a)K>unds in the productions of this school of artists, 
including tabernacles or shrines decorat^-d with sacred 
subjects, altar-pieces in bas-relief and alto-relief, architec- 
tural ornaments, and fountains or lavabos in sacristies of 
churches and convents, (h) A fine terra-cotta, enameled 
in colors, made in England for architectural decorations, 
flower-vases, garden-seats, etc., especially that niaile at 
Tamworth at works founded in 1847.— Double-glazed 
ware, sUmeware to which a glaze is applied in liquid form, 
both Inside and outside, tn-fore it is tired. Also called 
BrUtoi K-arf.— E*m?tlan black ware, Egyptian ware. 
See Egyptian.— BtrVLBCan Ware. See FfniMcmi. — T&fn- 
za ware, a name formerly given t<^) Italian ntajoHca. 
J. C. Rohinmn, in Vni. of Soulages Coll., 185<J. Com- 
pare Jaience. — OlaSB-glazed ware, see itlaHH-glazi'd. 
— Orafflto ware, see '/rn/if').— Green-Jaaper ware, 
a variety of Wedgwood ware. The name has been given 
to that kin<l of pebhleware which is mottled green and 
gray.— Hollow ware, vessels deeper than fiat ware, and 
especially such as are made in outside molds, which 
give the external surface - the clay being forced into 
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the mold from within, and worked over with a sponge 
so as to give it the required thickness and a smooth 
inner surface.— Incised ware, lottery decorated by 
scratches upon the surface. Specifically — (a) A coarse 
earthenware (covered with an outer coat of a different 
color, which, being deeply scratched, shows the body of 
the ware. (6) A kind of i>ottery in which the body is 
scratched or scored, the whole being then covered with 
a transparent glaze, which shows a deeper color where 
it fills these incisions than elsewhere. — India ware, a 
name inaccurately given in England to the more com- 
mon varieties of Chinese and Japanese porcelains im- 
ported into Europe by the East India Company or other- 
wise. — Kashee ware, a fine ceramic ware made in Persia, 
and decorated in blue on white in a manner closely re- 
sembling Chinese porcelain. It is apparently a mixed or 
hybrid porcelain, as it is softer than Oriental porcelain, 
and evidently different from the soft or tender porcelain 
of Europe. Also called Kaskan, Caskan, and Kachy ware. 
— Kioto ware, ceramic ware made in or near the city of 
Kioto in Japan. Immense quantities of pottery and por- 
celain are made there, and many characteristic varieties 
are imitated with great success ; but the name is given 
especially to a hard yellow ware with crackled glaze pe- 
culiar to Japan. — Lapls-lazull ware. See lapis.— haiva, 
ware. See iara.- Old Fulham ware, a name given to the 
English imitations of German gr6s c^rame or hard stone- 
ware made at Fnlbam from about 1670.— Palissy ware, a 
Dishof Palissy Ware. 
peculiar kind of pottery, remarkable for its beautiful glaze, 
the ornamentation being in very high relief, and consisting 
frequently <jf models of fish, reptiles, shells, or leaves. 
Bernard Palissy, a French potter of the sixteenth century, 
was the designer of this ware, and the art of manufac- 
turing it died with him, all attempts to imitate it having 
failed. — Pebble ware. See^^^^cKarc. — Persian ware. 
See i*erirtV(7i.— Plated ware. See plafcd. -Plumbeous 
ware, lead-glazed pottery.— Porphyry ware, a variety 
of pebl)leware. The name is generally given to tliat va- 
riety which is speckled red and black. — Raphael ware, 
an old name for Italian majolica, taken from the occa- 
sional appearance of designs by Raphael, or ascribed to 
him, painted on majolica plates of a late period, or per- 
haps, in some cases, from tlie use of arabesques similar 
to those painted under Rapbaers direction in the Loggie 
of the Vatican and elsewhere.— Red porphyry Ware, a 
variety of pebbleware. The name is generally given to 
pieces which are speckled red and white.— Robbla ware. 
Same as DeUa Robbie ?mrf.— Roman red ware. Same 
as Sam iun ware. — Rustic, Salopian, Samian, sanitary 
ware. See the adjectives.— Satsuma ware, (a) Pottery 
made in the province of Satsuma, in the island of Kiusiu, 
Japan. It has an extremely hard paste, is pale-yellow or 
brownish-yellow in color, an<l is covered with a very mi- 
nute crackle, (b) A pottery made at Stoke-upon-Trent in 
England, imitated in the main from the Japanese Satsuma. 
— Serpentine, SevUlan, slglllated, silicon ware. See 
the qualifying words.— Smceny ware, an enameled pot- 
tery made in Siuceny, in tlie department of the Aisne, 
France, decorated with great taste and delicacy, in partial 
imitation of Rouen ware and later of Chinese ceramic 
painting, and also in various fantastic styles. — Small 
ware or wares, textile articles of the tape kind, as nar- 
row bindings of cotton, linen, silk, or woolen fabric; 
plaited sash-cord, braid, etc.; also, buttons, hooks, eyes, 
and other (Iress-trimndngs; hence, trifles. 
Everyone knows Grubstreet is a market for«ma/rM'(ire 
in wit. Sivi/t, To a Young Poet. 
Stamped ware. Same as sigillated ware. — Stannifer- 
ous ware, earthenware coated with an enamel of which 
tin is a principal ingredient. This enamel is used for fine 
wares, such as Delft.— Tinned, tortoise-ahell, Umbrian 
ware, see the adjectives. — Timbridg:e ware, a species 
of inlaid or mosaic work in wood. It derives its name from 
the place of manufacture, Tunbridge in England. — Verd 
antlCLUe ware, a variety of pebbleware. generally veined 
with dark-green, gray, and black.— WedgWOOd ware 
[named after Josiah Wedgwood (UaO-O.'".), the inventor, 
born in Staffordshire, England], a sui»erior kind of semi-vit- 
rified ptittery, without nmch superficial glaze, and capable 
of taking on the most brilliant and delicate coloi-s produced 
by fused metallic oxids and ochers. It is much used for 
ornamental ware, as vases, etc., and, owing to its hard- 
ness and property of resisting the action of all corrosive 
substances, for mortai-s in the laboratory.— Welsh ware, 
a pottery made at Islewortb, near London in England, from 
about 182.'i; a strong and solid earthenware of yellowish- 
brown color with a transparent glaze. = Syn. yferchaii- 
dine, etc. See property. 
ware- (war), '*. t- ; pret. and pp. wared, ppr. 
wariiHj. [Also wair; < ME. warcn (also br- 
waren), sell; cf. warc'^, n.'\ To use; employ; 
layout; e.xpendj spend. [Obsolete or prov. 
Kng.] 
war-fain 
I schal ware my whyle wel, quyl hit lastez, with tale. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1235. 
He would not ware the spark of a flint for him, if they 
came with the law. Scott^ Waverley, xviii, 
ware^ (war), n. [E. dial, also wore, waur, ore; 
< ME. *warj < AS. war, tcaar, seaweed (= MD, 
D. wier, seaweed).] Seaweed of various spe- 
cies of Fucus, Laminaria, Himanthalia, Chorda, 
etc. They are employed as a manure and in the 
manufacture of kelp, etc. See seatcare. 
ware^t. An obsolete preterit of wear^. 
ware^t, ^'- ^- An obsolete spelling of ■wear'^, 10. 
warefult (war'fiil), a. [< ware'^ + -/^'^j Wary; 
watchful; cautious. 
Warefulnessf (war'fid-nes), II. [< wareful + 
'n€ss.~\ Wariness; cautiousness. Sir P, Sidney. 
warega-fly (wa-ra'ga-fli), n. [< S. Amer. Ind. 
warega + E. fly.'] An undetermined museid 
fly occurring in Brazil, wliich is said to lay its 
eggs in the skin of man and animals, causing 
large swellings inhabited by the larva. F. 
Smith, Trans. Entom. Soc, London, 1868. 
ware-goose (war'gos), ». [< warc^ + goose.'] 
The brent-goose: so called from feeding on 
ware or seaweed. [Local, Eng.] 
warehouse (war'hous), n. [< ware^ + house.] 
A house in which wares or goods are kept; a 
storehouse. 
Th' vnsettled kingdom of swift Aeolus, 
Great Ware-house of the Windes, whose trafflck glues 
Motion of life to ev'ry thing that liues. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. 
Specifically— (a) A store in which goods are placed for 
safe-keeping ; a building for the temporary deposit of 
goods for a compensation. (6) A building for storing im- 
ported goods on which customs dues have not been paid. 
(c) A store for the sale of goods at wholesale ; also, of- 
ten, a largeretailestabliahment.— Bonded, Italian, etc., 
warehouse. See the adjectives. 
warehouse (war'hous), r. t, ; pret. and pp. 
tvarehoused, ppr. warehousing, l\ warehouse, n.] 
To deposit or secure in a warehouse; specifi- 
cally, to place in the government or custom- 
house stores, to be kept until duties are paid. 
Only half the duty was to be paid at once, on warehous- 
ing the pepper In a warehouse approved by the customs. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, II. 76. 
warehouseman (war'hous-man), n.; pi. ware- 
hoHsemen (-men). 1. One wlio keeps aware- 
house. — 2. One who is employed in or has 
charge of a warehouse Italian-warehouseman. 
See /(aHan.— Warehousemen's itch, a form of eczema 
of the hands, supposed to be caused by the irritation of 
sugar; grocers' itch. 
warehousing (war'hou''''sing), n. 1. The act of 
placing goods in a warehouse. — 2. The business 
of receiving goods for storage Warehousing 
system, a customs regulation by which imported articles 
may be lodged in public or bonded warehouses at a rea- 
sonable rent, without payment of the duties on importa- 
tion until they are withdrawn for home consumption, 
thus lessening the pressure of the duties which otherwise 
would bear heavily on the merchant and cripple his pur- 
chasing power. If they are reexported no duty is charged. 
Tliis system affords valuable facilities to trade, and is 
beneficial to the consumer and ultimately to the public 
revenue. 
wareinet, n. A Middle English spelling of 
warren. 
warelesst (war'les), a. [< warc'^ + -Jess.] 1. 
Unwary; incautious; heedless. 
A bait the wareless to l)eguile. 
Mir. for Mags. (Latham.) 
2. Unaware; regardless. 
Both they unwise, and ivarelesse of the evill. 
Speiuser, V. Q., IV. ii. :i. 
3. Unperceived. 
When he wak't out of his wareiess paiiie, . . . 
That lim be could not wag. Spenser, ¥. Q., V. i. 22. 
warelyt (war'li), a. [< ME. u-arly, u-arliehe, < 
AS. Wierlic, cautious, < tvser, cautious, + -He = 
'E.-ly^.] Cautious; prudent; wary. 
The Petyuins tham bare as warty men fre ; 
For tlier good vitail and wines plente. 
Bom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1303. 
warelyt (war'li), adv. [< ME. warly, werb/, war- 
Uche, < AS. wserUce, < wser, catitious, + -Uee = 
E. -h/^. Cf. tvarily,] Cautiously; warily. 
Full icarly in this nede. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 4,')4. 
lii hys huge prowesse went it to assaill 
In rygbt werli/ wyse, for manly was in breste. 
Bom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1591. 
A good lesson to use our tongue warely, that our wordes 
and matter male . . . agree together. 
Sir T. Wilson, Art of Rhetoric (ed. 1584), p. lOS. 
wareroom (war'rom), n. A room in whicli 
goods are stored or laid oTit for sale. 
Philip was still in the wareroom, arranging goods and 
taking stock. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxii. 
war-fain (war'fan), a. Eager to tight. [Poeti- 
cal.] 
