Word Meanings - CULLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Broken glass for remelting.

Related words: (words related to CULLET)

• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• GLASS-SPONGE
  A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• GLASS-SNAIL
  A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
• GLASSITE
  A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the
• REMELT
  To melt again.
• BROKEN-BACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• GLASS-GAZING
  Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. Shak.
• GLASSWORK
  Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
• BROKEN-BELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly.
• GLASS
  1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively. Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. Motley. Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. Byron. 2. To case in glass. Shak. 3. To cover or furnish with glass;
• BROKENNESS
  1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• SANDGLASS
  An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• WATER GLASS
  See GLASS
• WINEGLASSFUL
  As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
• UNBROKEN
  Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.
• MUSCOVY GLASS
  Mica; muscovite. See Mica.
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS