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Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article. Locke.

A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton. These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. Paley.

of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

wells that are drilled, bored, or driven. Grab hag, at fairs, a bag or box holding small articles which are to be drawn, without being seen, on payment of a small sum. [Colloq.] -- Grab game, a theft committed by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property. [Colloq.]

Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser.

Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc. I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved. Milton.

Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.

A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

pecially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

ants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. -- Green woodpecker (Zoöl.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.

ma, phthisis, or rot (Med.), a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding.

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

er. (a) The lowest tier of water casks in a vessel's hold. Totten. (b) The lowest line of articles of any kind stowed in a vessel's hold. (c) The lowest range of boxes in a theater. -- Ground timbers (Shipbuilding) the timbers which lie on the keel and are bolted to the keelson; floor timbers. Knight. -- Ground tit.…

A garment; an article of clothing. Camden.

To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.