Definition of glass

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Glass (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively..

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Vitrifiable :: Vitrifiable (a.) Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable..
Euplectella :: Euplectella (n.) A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket..
Glassiness :: Glassiness (n.) The quality of being glassy.
Schooner :: Schooner (n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale..
Eyepiece :: Eyepiece (n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed..
Fibre :: Fibre (n.) Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant..
Stereoelectric :: Stereochromy (n.) A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda)..
Vitric :: Vitric (a.) Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.
Atlanta :: Atlanta (n.) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
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..
Receiver :: Receiver (n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump..
Devitrify :: Devitrify (v. t.) To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.
Plate :: Plate (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light..
Stone :: Stone (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
Prospective :: Prospective (n.) A perspective glass.
Uranium :: Uranium (n.) An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239..
Bumbelo :: Bumbelo (n.) A glass used in subliming camphor.
Polverine :: Polverine (n.) Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, -- used in the manufacture of fine glass..
Wineglassfuls :: Wineglassfuls (pl. ) of Wineglassfu.
Psyche :: Psyche (n.) A cheval glass.
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