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A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.

To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. Shak.

Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.

Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy. Wiseman.

A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of orname…

Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

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

Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Hoblyn.

s seat, as distinguished from a compression cock. Knight. -- Ground glass, glass the transparency of which has been destroyed by having its surface roughened by grinding. -- Ground joint, a close joint made by grinding together two pieces, as of metal with emery and oil, or of glass with fine sand and water.…

A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages.

s sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.

Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.

e in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent. "A tender, hazy brightness." Wordsworth.