vbl. sb. Also 6 Sc. enamelyne. [f. ENAMEL v. + -ING1.]
1. a. The action or process of covering or adorning with enamel. b. concr. A covering or ornamentation of enamel. Also attrib.
Enamelling-furnace, a furnace for fusing the coating of enamel on earthenware, glass, etc. Enamelling-lamp, a lamp with blowpipe attached for ornamenting glass with enamel.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 127. Thei schulden leie rather blew enameling than reed or whijt.
1550. Lyndesay, Sqr. Meldram, 123, Wks. 1879, I. 163. Of gold [was] ane garland of her heid Decorit with enamelyne.
1652. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 286. I went to one Mark Antonio, an incomparable artist in enamelling.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 382. An Enamelling point; It is for the ordering and setling Ammell (when ground) in its place, upon the Ring to be Enammelled.
1729. Sir J. Clerk, in Bibl. Topogr. Brit., III. 258. A sort of enamelling on the gold socket.
c. 1760. Ibbots, in Times (1884), 18 April, 4/3. Many curiosities of bronzes, enamellings, miniatures, &c.
1822. Bewick, Mem., 56. The latter taught his brother … enamelling and painting.
1868. Times, 22 Sept., 9/4. Cosmetics, bath preparations, attendance, and enamelling.
2. fig.
15[?]. Ld. Burleigh, Advice to Q. Eliz., in Harl. Misc. (1809), II. 277. A fair enamelling of a terrible danger.
attrib. 1823. Moore, Rhymes on Road, Ext. vii. 49. The small, enamelling touch Of smooth Carlino.
