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The quality of being flashy.

The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.

zling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.

g, shallow basket, with two handles. [Eng.] In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. Spenser.

A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf…

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

otyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like.

The art or process of electrotypy.

Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Sir T. Browne.

See Plasmogen, and Idioplasm.

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.

The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.

Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. [Poetic] Shak.

first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.

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.