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Glass

noun

A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.

A container for holding liquids while drinking. Synonym: drinking glass.

The quantity a glass will hold. Synonym: glassful.

A small refracting telescope. Synonyms: field glass, spyglass.

An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant. Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash.

A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror. Synonym: looking glass.

Glassware collectively.

verb

(past & past part. glassed; pres. part. glassing)

Furnish with glass. Synonym: glaze.

Scan (game in the forest) with binoculars.

Enclose with glass. Synonym: glass in.

Put in a glass container.

Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance. Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over.

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"Glass" Quotes from Famous Books

... water decanter and a glass. She seemed too weak to sit up, so he helped her by placing one arm under her head. She sipped the liquid and looked into his eyes. Then to his utter amazement she clasped both her arms round his neck and pulled his ...

— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild

... whose ultimate independence was his one dream; he had risen a grade higher in the moral scale than those whom his work made his associates. Joe took baths. Joe read a Polish paper; he did not drink except one glass of beer at his dinner. None of them had ever been able to persuade him to go further than that. Whether it were a wedding or a wake, Joe was staunch. This moderation, with the ...

— Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall • Jean K. Baird

... access of strange new powers, and that means the end of the schism between 'will' and 'ought,' and of the other schism between 'will' and 'can.' It means what this Apostle says: 'Whom He justified them He also glorified,' and what He says again, 'We all, beholding as in a glass'—or rather, perhaps, mirroring as a glass does—'the glory, are changed into the ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... glass eye?" said Maude to the optician. "Yes, miss." "How strange! it is not transparent. How does ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various

... jubilant, confidently asserting that their Krupp guns had dismounted the French batteries and knocked their mitrailleuses to pieces. I did not indulge in this confidence, however; for, with the excellent field-glass I had, I could distinctly see long columns of French troops moving to their right, for the apparent purpose of making a vigorous fight on that flank; and I thought it more than likely that their artillery would be heard from before the ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

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