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on cloth, etc. -- Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides. -- Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns. -- Ven…

A cupping glass. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ed, hexactinellid sponge (Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of…

A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also phial.] Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor thou off. Shak.

A device used by photographers in printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by intensible gradations.

A structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.

Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.

The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass. Kirwan.

Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.

The art or study of the manufacture and decoration of glassware.

The manufacture of glass and glassware.

Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

To convert into glass; to vitrify. [Obs.] Bacon.

Converted into glass.

Having the form or appearance of glass; resembling glass; glasslike.

To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

A glass show case for displaying fine wares, specimens, etc.

of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.

A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.