See slip.
Slip - wet fluid clay used for decoration or for covering a base coloured body. This term is most often used to describe coloured slips.
Loosely the term is sometimes applied to all slips. More specifically it is used for mixtures of clay and frit (and colour too sometimes) which are painted in a slip state onto clay. Engobes can be more readily built up to opaque thickness than slips.
A white or coloured coating of slip applied to the clay, for decoration, before glazing.
A type slip or underglaze. It is a type of slip that when fired is vitreous or in maturation is halfway between a glaze and a clay. It may be white or colored, and is usually applied to high firing stonewares and porcelains at the green or bisque state.
Usually used to mean decorating slip. A covering over the base clay not firing to a glassy finish.
Fluid clay used for decoration. This term is usually used to describe coloured slips.