| 释义 |
† conciator Obs.
[ad. It. conciatore mender, dresser, etc., f. conciare to repair, mend, dress, trim, adjust.]
See quots. (all founded on that of 1662, the word never having been in Eng. use).
1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass ii. 9 Experienced Conciators alwaies make tryal of the first Fritt. Ibid. i. 2. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Conciator, in the glass art, is for the crystal glass what the founder is at the green glass houses. He is the person that weighs and proportions the salt on ashes and sand, and works them with a strong fire, till they run into lumps, and become white.—Neri, Art of Glass 240. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Conciator, a workman who assorts and allots the proportion of salt required in glass-making. Hence in recent Dicts. |