Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
2.
Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.
Vitreous body (Anat.), the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye.
Vitreous electricity (Elec.), the kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity.
Vitreous sponge (Zool.), any one of numerous species of siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See Venus's basket, under Venus.
