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Gallowglass :: Gallowglass (n.) A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward .

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.

Shatter :: Shatter (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters..

Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..

Blue :: Blue (n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky..

Pole :: Pole (v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole..

Glassmaker :: Glassmaker (n.) One who makes, or manufactures, glass..

Pickerel :: Pickerel (n.) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye..

Bumper :: Bumper (n.) A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast..

Glasseye :: Glasseye (n.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.

Pony :: Pony (n.) A small glass of beer.

Aventurine :: Aventurine (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass..

Wafer :: Wafer (n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents..

Glassed :: Glassed (imp. & p. p.) of Glas.

Dioptrics :: Dioptrics (n.) The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light..

Hyalotype :: Hyalotype (n.) A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.

Glass :: Glass (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..

Salsola :: Salsola (n.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.

Desiccator :: Desiccator (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture..

Flint Glass :: Flint glass () A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass..

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