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The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.

A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S.]

he claws, the nails, a pin, or the like. Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.Grew. Be mindful, when invention fails., To scratch your head, and bite your nails.Swift.

ally, to move as if driven forward by something. The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans. I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. Beaconsfield.

The quantity of 120 pounds of glass. [Eng.]

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

ls ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass. There was no extraordinary service seen on the board. Hakewill.

in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash. And him too rich a jewel to be set In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. Dryden.

Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. Shank painter (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. -- To ride shank's mare, to go on foot; to walk.

anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. Swift.

A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. All the ground With shivered armor strown. Milton.

shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.

an advertising placard; also, a card for displaying samples. -- Show case, a gla -- Show glass, a glass which displays objects; a mirror. -- Show of hands, a raising of hands to indicate judgment; as, the vote was taken by a show of hands. -- Show stone, a piece of glass or crystal supposed to have the property of e…

The floor of a glass-furnace.

ry appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.

The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on; as, the silvering of a glass speculum.

ing fires, . . . Singe my white head! Shak. I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. L'Estrange.