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Webster 1913 Edition

Glass

Glass

(glȧs)
,
Noun.
[OE.
glas
,
gles
, AS.
glæs
; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw.
glas
, Icel.
glas
,
gler
, Dan.
glar
; cf. AS.
glær
amber, L.
glaesum
. Cf.
Glare
,
Noun.
,
Glaze
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
☞ Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow.
2.
(Chem.)
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
3.
Anything made of glass.
Especially:
(a)
A looking-glass; a mirror.
(b)
A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
(c)
A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
(d)
An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; – in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
(e)
A weatherglass; a barometer.
☞ Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
Bohemian glass
,
Cut glass
,
etc. See under
Bohemian
,
Cut
, etc.
–
Crown glass
,
a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; – so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing.
–
Crystal glass
, or
Flint glass
.
See
Flint glass
, in the Vocabulary.
–
Cylinder glass
,
sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened.
–
Glass of antimony
,
a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide.
–
Glass cloth
,
a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
–
Glass coach
,
a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; – so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows.
[Eng.]
Smart.

–
Glass cutter
.
(a)
One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets.
(b)
One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing.
(c)
A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass.
–
Glass cutting
.
(a)
The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond.
(b)
The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
–
Glass metal
,
the fused material for making glass.
–
Glass painting
,
the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see
Glass staining
, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like.
–
Glass paper
,
paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes.
–
Glass silk
,
fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
–
Glass silvering
,
the process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
–
Glass soap
, or
Glassmaker’s soap
,
the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass.
–
Glass staining
,
the art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting.
–
Glass tears
.
See
Rupert's drop
.
–
Glass works
,
an establishment where glass is made.
–
Heavy glass
,
a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash.
–
Millefiore glass
.
See
Millefiore
.
–
Plate glass
,
a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, – used for mirrors and the best windows.
–
Pressed glass
,
glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot.
–
Soluble glass
(Chem.)
,
a silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; – used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; – called also
water glass
.
–
Spun glass
,
glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
–
Toughened glass
,
Tempered glass
,
glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; – called also, from the name of the inventor of the process,
Bastie glass
.
–
Water glass
.
(Chem.)
See
Soluble glass
, above.
–
Window glass
,
glass in panes suitable for windows.

Glass

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glassed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Glassing
.]
1.
To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; – used reflexively.
Happy to
glass
themselves in such a mirror.
Motley.
Where the Almighty's form
glasses
itself in tempests.
Byron.
2.
To case in glass.
[R.]
Shak.
3.
To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
Boyle.
4.
To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

Webster 1828 Edition

Glass

GL`ASS

,
Noun.
[L. glastum; glesid, blueness. Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as L. viridis, from vireo.]
1.
A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
In chimistry, a substance or mixture, earthy, saline or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal.
2.
A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass.
3.
A mirror; a looking-glass.
4.
A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
5.
The destined time of man's life. His glass is run.
6.
The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains. Drink a glass of wine with me.
7.
A vessel that shows the weight of the air.
8.
A perspective glass; as an optic glass.
9.
The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand. The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour. We say, a ship fought three glasses.
10. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.

GL`ASS

,
Adj.
Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.

GL`ASS

,
Verb.
T.
To see as in a glass. [Not used.]
1.
To case in glass. [Little used.]
2.
To cover with glass; to glaze.
[In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.]

Definition 2024

Glass

Glass

See also: glass

English

Proper noun

Glass

  1. A surname​.

glass

glass

See also: Glass

English

Noun

a glass (drinking vessel) of milk

glass ‎(countable and uncountable, plural glasses)

  1. (uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
    The tabletop is made of glass.‎
    A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.‎
    • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
      The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
  2. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
    Fill my glass with milk please.‎
  3. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
    Would you like a glass of milk?‎
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
      Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  4. (uncountable) Glassware.
    We collected art glass.‎
  5. A mirror.
    • 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.
    She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.‎
  6. A magnifying glass or telescope.
    • 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games
      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 […]
  7. (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
    1. (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
      He caught the rebound off of the glass.‎
    2. (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
      He fired the outlet pass off the glass.‎
  8. A barometer.
  9. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
    glass frog;  glass shrimp;  glass worm‎
  10. (obsolete) An hourglass.

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Descendants

Verb

glass ‎(third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with glass; to glaze.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Boyle to this entry?)
  2. (transitive) To enclose with glass.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  3. (transitive, Britain, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
    • 1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19:
      JUDD. Any trouble last night?
      LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
    • 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72:
      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.
    • 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp page 139:
      One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
  4. (video games) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
    • 2012, Halo: First Strike, page 190:
      “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
  5. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
    • 2000, Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing, page 95:
      Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
  6. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
  7. (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
    • Motley
      Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
    • Byron
      Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

Translations

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: native · members · fortune · #959: glass · silver · winter · expect

Anagrams

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glas ‎(“blue-grey, green”), from Proto-Celtic *glastos.

Adjective

glass

  1. green (of nature), verdant
    Ta'n londaig hannah jeeaghyn slane glass.‎ ― The lawn looks quite green already.
    yn faarkey glass tonnagh foin‎ ― the green billowy sea under us
    yn awin ghlass‎ ― the green river
  2. grey (of animal), ashen (colour)
  3. soft, pale, pasty
  4. raw, unfledged, sappy
  5. callow (of youth)
Derived terms
  • coo glass ‎(“greyhound; tope”)
  • glassrey

Etymology 2

From Old Irish glas ‎(“lock, clasp”)

Noun

glass m ‎(genitive singular glish or gleish, plural glish or gleish)

  1. lock
    Hooar eh y glass er y dorrys roish.‎ ― He found himself locked out.
    T'eh fo glass.‎ ― He is behind bars.
    Ta glass er my hengey.‎ ― My lips are sealed.
    Ta glass y dorrys er y çheu sthie.‎ ― The door locks on the inside.
    Ta'n ogher shoh gentreil y glass.‎ ― This key goes in the lock.
    Vrish ad y glass.‎ ― They forced the lock.

Verb

glass ‎(verbal noun glassey)

  1. lock up, secure

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
glass ghlass nglass
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German glas

Noun

glass n ‎(definite singular glasset, indefinite plural glass, definite plural glassa or glassene)

  1. glass (a hard and transparent material)
  2. a glass (container for drink made of glass)
    et glass vin - a glass of wine
  3. a small container, such as a jar or bottle

Derived terms

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Swedish

Etymology

From French glace.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlas/

Noun

glass c

  1. an ice cream

Declension

Inflection of glass 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative glass glassen glassar glassarna
Genitive glass glassens glassars glassarnas

Related terms

  • apelsinglass
  • bananglass
  • chokladglass
  • glassa
  • glassbar
  • glassbil
  • glassbomb
  • glassbägare
  • glassförsäljare
  • glassig
  • glasskiosk
  • glassmaskin
  • glasspinne
  • glasstillverkning
  • glasstrut
  • glasstånd
  • glasstårta
  • isglass
  • jordgubbsglass
  • päronglass
  • smultronglass
  • vanlijglass

References

Etymology

From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related root *glōaną ‎(“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- ‎(“to shine, shimmer, glow”); cognate with West Frisian glês, German Low German Glas, Dutch glas, German Glas, Icelandic gler, Swedish glas.

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