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backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

panula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

A looking-glass; a mirror.

To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.

f plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome. None so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light. And in her hand she held a mirror bright, Wherein her face she often viewèd fair. Spenser.

The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

A spy-glass; a looking-glass. [Obs.] Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see. Chaucer.

A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archæology.

The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.] Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Shak.

ssing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. [Written also toilette.] Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room. -- Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room. -- Toilet table, a dressing table; a toilet. See def. 2 above. -- To snake one'…

Venus's hair stone (Min.), quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile. -- Venus's looking-glass (Bot.), an annual plant of the genus Specularia allied to the bellflower; -- also called lady's looking- glass. -- Venus's navelwort (Bot.), any one of several species of Omphalodes, low boraginaceous herbs with sma…

c soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged. Bacon. The other is wainscoted with looking-glass. Addison.