GLASSname

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Glassname

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  A surname.

glassnoun/ɡlɑːs/

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  An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).

  • This tabletop is made of glass.
  • A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
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  Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).

  • Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
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  A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

  • Would you like a glass of wine?
  • Fill my glass with milk, please.
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  The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

  • There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
  • Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
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  Glassware.

  • We collected art glass.
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  A mirror.

  • She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
  • 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67, […] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.
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  A magnifying glass or loupe.

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  A telescope.

  • Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]
  • He got a good glass for six hundred dollars. His new job gave him leisure for star-gazing. Often he bid me come and have a look Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside, At a star quaking in the other end.

glassverb/ɡlɑːs/

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  To fit with glass; to glaze.

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  To enclose in glass.

  • As Iewels in Christall for some Prince to buy. / Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,
  • And to ſatisfie my ſelf, that the diverſity came not from the Paper, vvhich one might ſuſpect capable of imbibing the Liquor, and altering the Colour, I made the Tryal upon a flat piece of purely VVhite Glaſs'd Earth, […]
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  To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

  • JUDD. Any trouble last night? LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
  • I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
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  literaturemediapublishingTo bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

  • “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
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  To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

  • Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
  • One of the keys to glassing effectively is supporting your binoculars. Advanced glassers who scan lots of country for long periods of time, or who use binoculars of 10X power or more, often use a lightweight camera tripod […]
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  To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

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  archaicTo reflect; to mirror.

  • Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror.
  • Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.
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  To make glassy.

  • Not only were his eyes averted from mine, but they were glassed to an uncanny degree.

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