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Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.

colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

Governableness.

Habitableness.

Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book.

Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous. Handsome is as handsome does. Old Proverb.

ncoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks.

Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian. "The Hellenic forces." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Same as Heptylene.

Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series.

Same as Hexylene.

A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled. -- High"-heart`ed*ness, n.

The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.

Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] Chaucer.