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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

3 entries under this word

Glass

Glass, n.

noun

[A-S. glās, Ger., D., Dan., Sw., & Icel. glas, Icel. also glēr, Dan. glar; O. H. Ger. glas, also amber, A-S. glære, Lat. glesum, glesum, glæsum.]

  1. A hard, brittle, transparent substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
  2. (Chem.) A substance or mixture, earthy, saline, or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal. Aikin.
  3. Any thing made of glass; especially, (a.) A looking-glass; a mirror. (b.) A glass filled with running sand for measuring time; and hence the time in which a glass is exhausted of its sand.

She would not live The running of one glass. Shak. (c.) A drinking-glass; a tumbler. (d.) An optical glass; a lens; a spy-glass; — in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses. (e.) A weather-glass; a barometer.

Glāss, a.

adjective

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

Gläss, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. GLASSED (gläst); p. pr. & vb. n. GLASSING.] 1. To see, as in a glass. Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. Motley. 2. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; — used reflexively. When the Almighty’s form glasses itself in tempests. Byron.

  1. To case in glass. [Rare.] Shak.
  2. To cover with glass; to glaze. Boyle.