Porcelain

n.
  1. A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
    2. Ivory porcelain ,
    porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.
    Porcelain clay .
    See under Clay.
    Porcelain crab (Zoöl.),
    any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace.
    Porcelain jasper . (Min.)
    See Porcelanite.
    Porcelain printing ,
    the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain.
    Porcelain shell (Zoöl.),
    a cowry.