Glass

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1. Verb

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.

2. Verb

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

3. Verb

Anything made of glass.

4. Verb

A looking-glass; a mirror.

5. Verb

A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.

6. Verb

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

7. Verb

An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.

8. Verb

A weatherglass; a barometer.

9. Verb

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.

10. Verb

To case in glass.

11. Verb

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

12. Verb

To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

13. Noun

an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

14. Noun

a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
Vocabulary classified under Physics
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