Word Meanings - VITREOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks. 2. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity. Vitreous body , the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye. -- Vitreous electricity , the kind of

Additional info about word: VITREOUS

1. Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks. 2. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity. Vitreous body , the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye. -- Vitreous electricity , the kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; -- opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity. -- Vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye. -- Vitreous sponge , any one of numerous species of siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See Venus's basket, under Venus.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VITREOUS)

• Glassy
• Vitreous
• smooth
• polished
• glacial
• glabrous
• brittle
• transparent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• limpid
• glossy
• silken
• Pellucid
• Translucent
• vitreous

Related words: (words related to VITREOUS)

• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. 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
• GLACIALIST
  One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• PELLUCIDLY
  In a pellucid manner.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• GLABROUS
  Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• LIMPIDNESS
  Quality of being limpid; limpidity.
• BRITTLE STAR
  Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
• LIMPID
  Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. Woodward. Syn. -- Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• SILKEN
  1. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil. 2. Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. "Silken terms precise." Shak. 3. Dressed in silk. "A . . . silken wanton." Shak.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• SUBPELLUCID
  Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.