Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Glass; glassy; glazed.
- To coat or cover (pottery or the like) with glaze; glaze.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Glassy; glazed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
glassy ;glazed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shall prove but glassen hammers: they shall break.
The White Devil 2007
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Shall prove but glassen hammers: they shall break.
The White Devil 2007
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He never came home to me under the influence, but toward -- the end -- his eyes began to glassen up.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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(M128) We found that they had a great heape of wild Rats that liue in the water, as bigge as a Conny, and very good to eate, which they gaue vnto our Captaine, who for a recompence gaue them kniues and glassen Beades.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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"Many of this company went and brack up the Bishop's yetts, set on good fires of his peats standing within the close: they masterfully broke up the haill doors and windows of this stately house; they brake down beds, boards, aumries, glassen windows, took out the iron stauncheons, brake in the locks, and such as they could carry had with them, and sold for little or nothing; but they got none of the Bishop's plenishing to speak of, because it was all conveyed away before their coming."
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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“_eldern_ popguns” in Sir Thomas Overbury; “a _glassen_ breast”, in
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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