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Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [Obs.] Wyclif.

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.

One whose business is to set glass. Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond.

The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

nder Bee. -- Fish glue, a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass. -- Glue plant (Bot.), a fucoid seaweed (Gloiopeltis tenax). -- Liquid glue, a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid oralcohol. -- Marine glue, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.…

A glass of spirits. [Slang]

of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.

e been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.

A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

eathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.…

To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.

use, and thrown from the hand among enemies. Hand grenade. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle c…

To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of its constituents are embedded. -- Ground parrakeet (Zoöl.), one of several Australian parrakeets, of the genera Callipsittacus and Geopsittacus, which live mainly upon the grou…

A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass.

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

elescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light. -- He`li*o*scop`ic, a.

a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.