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).
1662. Merrett, trans. 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.
