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Word Meanings - WINEGLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small glass from to drink wine.

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  • DRINKABLE
    Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
  • GLASSEN
    Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
  • DRINK
    p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • 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.
  • DRINKER
    One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
  • 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.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • DRINKABLENESS
    State of being drinkable.
  • GLASS-SNAIL
    A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • 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.
  • GLASSWORK
    Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • OVERDRINK
    To drink to excess.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • 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.

 

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