Dictionarium Polygraphicum. Containing. Polygraphick Dictionary. B. Bice. Bistre.

Dictionarium Polygraphicum:
Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested.
Vol I.
London: Printed for C. Hitch and C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, and S. Austen in St. Paul's Church Yard. MDCCXXXV.
1735
BICE. As blue BICE bears the best body of all bright blues us'd in common work, as house painting, &c. but it is the palest in colour; it works indifferent well, but inclines a little to be sandy, and therefore requires good grinding, and that on a very hard stone; it is a blue that lies best near the eye of any now in use except ultramarine; but this last is too dear to be us'd in ordinary work.

BISTRE, BISTER, a colour made of chimney soot boil'd, and after BISTER, swards diluted with water, serving painters to wash their designs. Instead of this some use the strokes of a pen, some Indian ink, others a black stone, &c.