Wēdġ'woōd-wāre, n.

n. [From the name of the inventor, Josiah Wedgwood, of England.] A kind of semi-vitrified pottery, without much superficial glaze, naturally of a cream-color, from being made of white clay, but capable of receiving any other colors by means of metallic oxides and ochers. It is much used for ornamental ware, as vases, and the like.