Glass
[glɑːs] or [ɡlæs]
Definition
(noun.) a container for holding liquids while drinking.
(noun.) glassware collectively; 'She collected old glass'.
(noun.) the quantity a glass will hold.
(noun.) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.
(verb.) put in a glass container.
(verb.) enclose with glass; 'glass in a porch'.
(verb.) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars.
(verb.) furnish with glass; 'glass the windows'.
Typist: Xavier--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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 ornament.
(v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
(v. t.) Anything made of glass.
(v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.
(v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
(v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
(v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
(v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.
(v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
(v. t.) To case in glass.
(v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
(v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
Checker: Zachariah
Definition
n. a combination of silica with some alkali or alkaline earth such as lime &c. used for window panes mirrors lenses &c.: anything made of glass esp. a drinking-vessel a mirror &c.: the quantity of liquid a glass holds: any fused substance like glass with a vitreous fracture: (pl.) spectacles.—adj. made of glass.—v.t. to case in glass.—ns. Glass′-blow′er one who blows and fashions glass; Glass′-blow′ing the process of making glass by taking a mass of glass reduced by heat to a viscid state and inflating it; Glass′-coach a coach for hire having glazed windows; Glass′-crab the larval form of rock lobsters &c. but formerly regarded as adults and made into a genus or even family; Glass′-cut′ter; Glass′-cut′ting the act or process of cutting shaping and ornamenting the surface of glass.—adj. Glass′-faced (Shak.) reflecting the sentiments of another as in a mirror.—n. Glass′ful the contents of a glass.—adj. Glass′-gaz′ing (Shak.) addicted to viewing one's self in a mirror.—ns. Glass′-grind′ing the ornamenting of glass by rubbing with sand emery &c.; Glass′-house a glass manufactory: a house made of glass.—adv. Glass′ily.—n. Glass′iness.—adj. Glass′-like.—ns. Glass′-paint′ing the art of producing pictures on glass by means of staining it chemically; Glass′-pā′per paper coated with finely pounded glass and used like sand-paper; Glass′-soap an oxide of manganese and other substances used by glass-blowers to remove colouring from glass; Glass′ware articles made of glass; Glass′-work articles made of glass; Glass′wort a plant so called from its yielding soda used in making glass.—adjs. Glass′y made of or like glass; Glass′y-head′ed (Tenn.) having a bald shining head.—ns. Cut′-glass flint-glass shaped or ornamented by cutting or grinding on a wheel; Ground′-glass any glass that has been depolished by a sand-blast grinding or etching with acids so as to destroy its transparency; Plate′-glass glass cast in large thick plates.—Live in a glass house=to be open to attack or retort.—Musical glasses (see Harmonica).—Water or Soluble glass the soluble silicate of soda or of potash formed when silica is fused with an excess of alkali used for hardening artificial stone as a cement and for rendering calico &c. uninflammable.
Typist: Sam
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are looking through glass, denotes that bitter disappointments will cloud your brightest hopes. To see your image in a mirror, foretells unfaithfulness and neglect in marriage, and fruitless speculations. To see another face with your own in a mirror indicates that you are leading a double life. You will deceive your friends. To break a mirror, portends an early and accidental death. To break glass dishes, or windows, foretells the unfavorable termination to enterprises. To receive cut glass, denotes that you will be admired for your brilliancy and talent. To make presents of cut glass ornaments, signifies that you will fail in your undertakings. For a woman to see her lover in a mirror, denotes that she will have cause to institute a breach of promise suit. For a married woman to see her husband in a mirror, is a warning that she will have cause to feel anxiety for her happiness and honor. To look clearly through a glass window, you will have employment, but will have to work subordinately. If the glass is clouded, you will be unfortunately situated. If a woman sees men, other than husband or lover, in a looking glass, she will be discovered in some indiscreet affair which will be humiliating to her and a source of worry to her relations. For a man to dream of seeing strange women in a mirror, he will ruin his health and business by foolish attachments.
To dream that you see glass-blowers at their work, denotes you will contemplate change in your business, which will appear for the better, but you will make it at a loss to yourself.
To see a glass house, foretells you are likely to be injured by listening to flattery. For a young woman to dream that she is living in a glass house, her coming trouble and threatened loss of reputation is emphasized.
To dream of a wine-glass, foretells that a disappointment will affect you seriously, as you will fail to see anything pleasing until shocked into the realization of trouble.
Checked by Elaine
Examples
- Will you take a glass of wine, Lowten? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The gentleman did it, with a handkerchief and a glass of water. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A clean plate of glass is coated with collodion sensitized with iodides of potassium, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Lightwood lifted his head at the neck, and put a wine-glass to his lips. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In such a Kaleidoscope, the circular figure will be formed by three reflections from each glass. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Have the goodness to give me a little glass of old cognac, and a mouthful of cool fresh water, madame. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And letting down the side-glass to distinguish, 'Tis Crawford's, Crawford's barouche, I protest! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The camera obscura consisted of a box with a lens at one end and a ground glass at the other, just like a modern camera. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tom said this with one eye shut up again, and looking over his glass knowingly, at his entertainer. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I poured another glass of wine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone--a sort of slag. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Would not matter solidifying after fusion form a glass, a vitreous, rather than a crystalline product? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The floor was of another material, very hard, and worn by much use to the smoothness of glass. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To Gerald, the smallish, odd figure of the German was distinct and objective, as if seen through field glasses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald glanced at the glasses of the other two. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Three wine-glasses, that is all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Lord bless ye, Tom, ye needn't break all the glasses! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In my mind I set it down as an impossible performance, save in the unlikely case that she had a second pair of glasses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This gives a much increased field, and also an increased stereoscopic effect, or conception of relative distance, by having the object glasses wider apart than the eyes of the observer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The old man took his glasses off, and mildly laid them down beside him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He has been standing on the hearthstone with his back to the smoked chimney-piece, and now turns round with his glasses to his eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now they are all holding up their glasses and drinking somebody's health. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Glessen or glasses are flat sectional streaks having an icy appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Touching glasses together in drinking, preparatory to a confidential talk, has come to be nicknamed hob-nobbing because of the equipment incidental to that action years ago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are three glasses in my sitting-room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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