Berlin

n.
  1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
  2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.
    3. Berlin black ,
    a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware.
    Berlin blue ,
    Prussian blue.
    Berlin green ,
    a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.
    Berlin iron ,
    a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.
    Berlin shop ,
    a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.
    Berlin work ,
    worsted embroidery.