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Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers who pay the highest regular rate; -- distinguished from a second-clas…

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…

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

To pass by or along; to pass over. [Obs.] Spenser.

A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

To dress like a fricassee.

A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

Same as Galleass.

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

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.

Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. Gasserian ganglion (Anat.), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.

The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

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.