a. [f. L. type *vitresc-ĕre to become glass + -IBLE, or directly a. F. vitrescible (a. 1762), = It. vitrescibile, Pg. -ivel.] That can be vitrified; vitrifiable.
1754. Huxham, in Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 841. Loosely combined with the vitrescible earth.
1786. Wedgwood, Ibid., LXXVI. 400. This effect is constant in certain clays, and begins earliest in those which are most vitrescible.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nature, I. 450. They have likewise been ranked among vitrescible stones.
1825. Hibbert, in Trans. Soc. Antiq. Scot. (1831), IV. 166. The interstices between them being filled full of this vitrescible iron ore.
1872. Yeats, Techn. Hist. Comm., 266. Vitrescible colours … are now laid on the glass, and burned into it.
Hence Vitrescibility. [Cf. F. vitrescibilité.]
1786. Wedgwood, in Phil. Trans., LXXVI. 401. Enabling us to ascertain the degree of vitrescibility of bodies that cannot actually be vitrified by any fires which our furnaces are capable of producing.
