Word Meanings - GLASSEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.

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• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• GLAZY
  Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
• GLAZE
  To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to , to modify the effect. (more info) 1. To furnish with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with
• GLASSY
  1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon. 2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep. 3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster;
• GLAZEN
  Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. Wyclif.
• GLAZER
  1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. 2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung
• GLAZIER
  One whose business is to set glass. Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond.
• GLAZING
  Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect. (more info) 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. 2. The
• DEGLAZE
  To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.
• DEGLAZING
  The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.
• OVERGLAZE
  Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.
• UNGLAZE
  To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.
• UNDERGLAZE
  Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.