Word Meanings - WINEGLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small glass from to drink wine.
Related words: (words related to WINEGLASS)
- 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.