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Webster 1913 Edition
Glassen
Glass′en
,Adj.
Glassy; glazed.
[Obs.]
And pursues the dice with
glassen
eyes. B. Jonson.
Definition 2024
glassen
glassen
English
Adjective
glassen (comparative more glassen, superlative most glassen)
- Made of or consisting of glass
- 2012, B. Suchoff, Bela Bartok, Rumanian Folk Music:
- From the castle calls Ileana, Refrain (Looking) through the glassen windows, (Looking) through the glassen windows: [...]
- 2013, Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy:
- But I had a glassen vessel, of a narrow neck, weighing 1354 grains: [...]
- 2012, B. Suchoff, Bela Bartok, Rumanian Folk Music:
- Resembling glass; glassy; glazed
- And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. — Ben Jonson.
- 2004, John Coulson Tregarthen, John Penrose: A Romance of the Land's End:
- Abreast of the players, he jumped down, seized one of the taws - it was a glassen alley - knuckled down, fired kibby at the clayers in the ring, and was back in his seat before you could cry "Jack Robinson".
Etymology 2
From glass + -en (verbal suffix).
Verb
glassen (third-person singular simple present glassens, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)