Millefiore glass |
Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles. |
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Muscovy glass |
Mica; muscovite. See Mica. |
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Water glass |
See Soluble glass, under Glass. |
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Claude Lorraine glass |
A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. |
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Egg-glass |
A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table. |
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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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Gazing |
of Gaze |
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Glass |
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. |
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Glass |
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. |
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Glass |
Anything made of glass. |
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Glass |
A looking-glass; a mirror. |
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Glass |
A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand. |
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Glass |
A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner. |
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Glass |
An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses. |
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Glass |
A weatherglass; a barometer. |
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Glass |
To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively. |
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Glass |
To case in glass. |
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Glass |
To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. |
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Glass |
To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher. |
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Glass-crab |
The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma. |
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