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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

... their coaches were called the "Countess."—"'Caillard' could not overtake the 'Countess'; but 'Grand Bureau' caught up with her finely," you will hear the men say. If you see a postilion pressing his horses and refusing a glass of wine, question the conductor and he will tell you, snuffing the air while his eye gazes far into space, "The 'Competition' is ahead."—"We can't get in sight of her," cries the postilion; "the vixen! ...

— Ursula • Honore de Balzac

... used to look round among his fellow-subjects—to transact business with his equals—to account for conduct to his master, and, by that wise system of the Company, to detail all his transactions—who never could fly one moment from himself, but must be obliged every night to sit down and hold up a glass to his own soul—who could never be blind to his deformity, and who must have brought his conscience not only to connive at but to approve of it—this it is that distinguishes it from the worst cruelties, the worst enormities of those, who, born to ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore

... frequency and violence along this coast at this season of the year. Soon after sunrise the next morning, a sail having been descried from the masthead, I immediately got under way, and commenced beating up between the Verde Island and Pascoros reefs. In a short time I was enabled, with my glass, to make out the strange sail to be a man of war, whereupon I hoisted my number, and had the satisfaction in fifteen or twenty minutes more to see the stranger show that of the "John Adams." The wind, which had been blowing from the W. ...

— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat

... figger for an Honorable," he said. "But it's time to be goin'. Here's good luck!" and he poured down a glass of the ...

— Slow and Sure - The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant • Horatio Alger

... my own heart. I am always ready to acknowledge a defeat. You have good stuff in you. I must know you better. You must stay and have a glass of champagne with me. I will get it myself," and he hurried out ...

— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis

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