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Carafe :: Carafe (n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.

Glass-snake :: Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World..

Conciator :: Conciator (a.) The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them..

Aggri :: Aggri (a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa..

Glasstonbury Thorn :: Glasstonbury thorn () A variety of the common hawthorn.

Drop :: Drop (n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug..

Glasshouse :: Glasshouse (n.) A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

Abaculus :: Abaculus (n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements..

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself..

Transparent :: Transparent (a.) Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque..

Cosmosphere :: Cosmosphere (n.) An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe..

Harmonica :: Harmonica (n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers..

Psyche :: Psyche (n.) A cheval glass.

Dynameter :: Dynameter (n.) An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power..

Uranin :: Uranin (n.) An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein..

Stoppled :: Stopple (v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple..

Ventouse :: Ventouse (n.) A cupping glass.

Glass-rope :: Glass-rope (n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together..

Vinery :: Vinery (n.) A structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery..

Frit :: Frit (v. t.) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients..

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