A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

So as to resemble glass.

The quality of being glassy.

A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is /no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding./ The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

One who makes, or manufactures, glass.

Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

one who cuts flat glass to size.

a place where glass is made.

A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.

Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.

Glazing or glass.

A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime.

Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.

Of or pertaining to the Glaucium flavum or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.

An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium flavum, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.

Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

Having the nature of glaucoma.

See Gleucometer.

The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

Same as Glaucoma.

Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

To grope with the hands, as in the dark.

See Glaive.

To prate; to jabber; to babble.

A flatterer.

A claymore.

The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.

Same as glassed.

fitted or covered with glass; as, a glassed wall. Opposite of unglazed.

Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.

One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

One whose business is to set glass.

The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

A live coal. See Gleed.

To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).

Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.

Cleaning; afterbirth.

One who gathers after reapers.

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.

The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.

A lump; a clod.

Having no glebe.

The quality of being glebous.

Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.

A live coal.

A live or glowing coal; a glede.

Merry; gay; joyous.

To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

To glisten; to gleam.

Merry; joyous; gleeful.

To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.

Ichorous; thin; limpid.

Quick of perception; alert; sharp.

A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made.

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

Glenoid.

See Glint.

An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.

See Glue.

Asquint; askance; obliquely.

See Glair.

Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Slippery; changeable.

In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

The quality of being glib.

An ogling look.

p. p. of Glide.

Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.

The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide slope.

the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide path.

p. p. of Glide.

One who, or that which, glides.

In a gliding manner.

A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.

A sneer; a flout.

Brightness; splendor.

A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.

Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer.

shining softly and intermittently.

To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; as, glinting eyes; glinting water.

A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

An order of mammals; the Rodentia.

A natural family of rodents including the dormice and other Old World forms.

The type genus of the Gliridae.

A sliding, as down a snow slope.

A gliding effect; gliding.

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

Glimmer; mica.

To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

Reflecting light readily or in large amounts; having a surface luster; reflecting light directly rather than scattering it.

Glitter; luster.

In a glistering manner.

A fault or defect in a system, plan, or machine.

A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.

Glittering.

In a glittering manner.

The twilight; gloaming.

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.

To squint; to stare.

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

a compact mass, especially of a semiliquid or viscous substance; as, a glob of glue fell on my shoe.

involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; as, global war; global monetary policy.

A worldwide system of electronic navigation in which a vessel, aircraft or missile determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the transmission time from several orbiting satellites. GPS is more precise than any other navigation system available, yielding position accurate within 10 meters 95% of the time.

A glowworm.

Having the form of a globe; spherical.

To gather or form into a globe.

Shaped like a globe.

A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europ/us), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus.