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GL`ASS, n. 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, a. Made of glass vitreous as a glass bottle.
GL`ASS, 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.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Glass'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/glass.html.
Entry for 'Glass'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/glass.html.
