ˈsmȯlt noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle French, from Old Italian smalto, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German smelzan to melt — more at smelt
1. : a blue glass made by fusing potassium carbonate, silica, and cobalt oxide and used in powdered form chiefly as a colorant for glass and vitreous enamels — often used in plural but sing. or plural in constr.
2. : a moderate blue that is redder and duller than average copen, redder and deeper than azurite blue, Dresden blue, or pompadour, and greener and deeper than luster blue — called also cobalt glass, Dumont's blue, king's blue, powder blue, starch blue
3. : sand colored for use in producing a rough decorative long-wearing surface with paint