Word Meanings - GLASSWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

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• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  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.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• GLASS-SPONGE
  A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
• GLASS-SNAIL
  A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
• GLASSITE
  A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the
• GLASS-GAZING
  Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. Shak.
• MANUFACTURE
  1. The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency. 2. Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.
• GLASSWORK
  Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
• MANUFACTURER
  One who manufactures.
• GLASS
  1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively. Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. Motley. Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. Byron. 2. To case in glass. Shak. 3. To cover or furnish with glass;
• GLASSHOUSE
  A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
• GLASS-FACED
  Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.
• GLASSY
  1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon. 2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep. 3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster;
• GLASSEYE
  A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
• GLASSFUL
  Glassy; shining like glass. "Minerva's glassful shield." Marston.
• GLASS-CRAB
  The larval state of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• SANDGLASS
  An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• WATER GLASS
  See GLASS
• WINEGLASSFUL
  As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
• MUSCOVY GLASS
  Mica; muscovite. See Mica.
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS
• ISINGLASS
  A popular name for mica, especially when in thin sheets. (more info) hausenblase), lit., bladder of the huso, or large sturgeon; huizen 1. A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders
• GALLOWGLASS
  A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.