Word Meanings - DEGLAZING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• 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.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• 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.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• 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.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.