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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

... photograph of Leah Gibson—a very large one and an excellent. He gazed at it a long time with his magnifying-glass and without, all his keen perceptions on the alert; and I watched ...

— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... possible, but adjacent to it and entered from the Via Sacra. It was circular, with a door of cast bronze, beautifully ornamented with reliefs of pearl-divers, tritons, nereids and other marine subjects. Inside its dome-shaped roof was lined with an intricate mosaic of bits of glass as brilliant as rubies, emeralds and sapphires, or as gold and silver. The roof rested on a circular entablature with a very ornate cornice, under which was a frieze ornamented with reliefs, representing winged cupids working as gem-cutters and polishers, as chasers of salvers and goblets, ...

— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... Paul," she replied, "that I drink nothing save a glass of hot water after my meal. The subject of drink does not interest me. I appeal to you now as a future member of the family: ...

— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... my clothes fust of all, and then, asking me to sit down in front of 'im, he took a looking-glass and a box out of 'is bag and began to alter 'is face. Wot with sticks of coloured paint, and false eyebrows, and a beard stuck on with gum and trimmed with a pair o' scissors, it was more like a conjuring trick than anything else. Then 'e took a wig out of 'is bag and pressed it on ...

— Night Watches • W.W. Jacobs

... I should never have gone up to the hospital that day and never seen old Margaret. She was an old darky woman that used to come in to clean the wards when they were short of help, and all the nurses knew her, because she used to tell fortunes with cards and a glass ball she looked into—pretty fair fortunes, too. I've known of some awfully queer things she told different nurses that were only too true. She always liked me because I used to jolly her up, and I stopped to speak to her, and she asked me where ...

— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon

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