a fictitious metal, used in making domestic utensils, as plates, dishes, &c.

The basis of this metal is tin, which is converted into pewter, by mixing at the rate of an hundred weight of tin with fifteen pounds of lead and six pounds of brass. See Metal.

Besides this composition, which makes the common pewter, there are other kinds compounded of tin, regulus of antimony, bismuth and copper, in several proportions.