Word Meanings - SEMIVITRIFIED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

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• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• VITRIFIED
  Converted into glass.
• 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.
• VITRIFICABLE
  Vitrifiable.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• VITRIFICATION
  See URE
• 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.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• 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.
• VITRIFICATE
  To convert into glass; to vitrify. Bacon.
• GLASSHOUSE
  A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
• SEMIVITRIFIED
  Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• INVITRIFIABLE
  Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass. Kirwan.
• 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.