Definitions for the word "glass" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
Anything made of glass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
A looking-glass; a mirror.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
A weatherglass; a barometer.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To case in glass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. t.
To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. t.
To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
1 a (often attrib.) Hard, brittle, usu. Transparent substance, made by fusing sand with soda and lime etc. B substance of similar properties. 2 glass objects collectively. 3 a glass drinking vessel. B its contents. 4 mirror. 5 glazed frame for plants. 6 barometer. 7 covering of a watch-face. 8 lens. 9 (in pl.) A spectacles. B binoculars. v. (usu. As glassed adj.) Fit with glass. glassful n. (pl. -s). [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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