Category:Berlin

Ber"lin, n. Etym: [The capital of Prussia]

1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure.

-- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure.

-- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.

-- Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.

-- Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.

-- Berlin work, worsted embroidery.