Word Meanings - GLASSWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

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• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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;
• GLASSHOUSE
  A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
• GLASS-FACED
  Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.
• 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;
• GLASSEYE
  A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
• GLASSFUL
  Glassy; shining like glass. "Minerva's glassful shield." Marston.
• GLASS-CRAB
  The larval state of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.
• GLASSWARE
  Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• SANDGLASS
  An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
• WATER GLASS
  See GLASS
• 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.
• WINEGLASSFUL
  As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
• MUSCOVY GLASS
  Mica; muscovite. See Mica.
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS
• ISINGLASS
  A popular name for mica, especially when in thin sheets. (more info) hausenblase), lit., bladder of the huso, or large sturgeon; huizen 1. A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders
• GALLOWGLASS
  A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.