Dictionary entry

Berlin

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ber″lin (�), n. 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.