Bay window () A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form |
Claude Lorraine glass () A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. |
Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained. |
Egg-glass (n.) A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs |
Flint glass () A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power |
Glass (v. t.) 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 (v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. |
Glass (v. t.) Anything made of glass. |
Glass (v. t.) A looking-glass |
Glass (v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time |
Glass (v. t.) A drinking vessel |
Glass (v. t.) An optical glass |
Glass (v. t.) A weatherglass |
Glass (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror |
Glass (v. t.) To case in glass. |
Glass (v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass |
Glass (v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher. |
Glass-crab (n.) The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma. |
Glass-faced (a.) Mirror-faced |
Glass-gazing (a.) Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror |
Glass maker (n.) Alt. of Glassmaker |
Glass-rope (n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together. |
Glass-snail (n.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina. |
Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States |
Glass-sponge (n.) A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera |
Lady's looking-glass () See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus. |
Looking-glass (n.) A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. |
Millefiore glass () Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass |
Muscovy glass () Mica |
Thickness (n.) The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). |
Water glass () See Soluble glass, under Glass. |
Window (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. |
Window (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. |
Window (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other. |
Window (v. t.) To furnish with windows. |
Window (v. t.) To place at or in a window. |