Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLARE, v.i.

1. To shine with a clear, bright, dazzling light; as, glaring light. The cavern glares with new admitted light. Dryden.
2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes. They glared, like angry lions. Dryden.
3. To shine with excessive luster; to be ostentatiously splendid; as, a glaring dress. Milton. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. Pope.

GLARE, v.t.

To shoot a dazzling light.

GLAR-ED, pp.

Shot with a fierce or dazzling light.

GLARE-OUS, a. [Fr. glaireux. See Glair,]

Resembling the white of an egg; viscous and transparent or white.

GLAR-ING, ppr.

1. Emitting a clear and brilliant light; shining with dazzling luster.
2. adj. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, n glaring crime.

GLAR-ING-LY, adv.

Openly; clearly; notoriously.

GLASS, a.

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

GLASS, n. [Sax. glees; Sw; Dan. G. and D. glas; so named from its color; W. glas., from llas, blue, azure, green, fresh, pale; glani, to make blue, to become green or verdant, to grow pale, to dawn; glaslys, woad, L. glastum; glesid, blueness. Tacitus, de Mor. Ger. 45, inenttons glesum, amber collected in the Baltic, probably the same word, and so named from its clearness; Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as L. viridis, from vireo.]

1. A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies. Encyc. A definite compound of silicic acid and potassa or soda. The pure silicates of potassa and soda, are soluble in water; but by the conjunction of a silicate of lime, magnesia, alumina, or any other earth, it becomes insoluble in water. In chimistry, 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.
2. A glass vessel of any kind; as n drinking-glass.
3. A mirror; a looking-glass.
4. A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
5. The destined time of man's life. His glass is run.
6. The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains. Drink a glass of wino with me.
7. A vessel that shows the weight of the air. Tatler.
8. A perspective glass; as, an optic glass. Milton.
9. The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand. The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour. We say, n ship fought three glasses.
10. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.

GLASS, v.t.

1. To see, as in n glass. [Not used] Sidney.
2. To case in lass; [Little used.] Shak.
3. To cover with glass; to glaze. Boyle. [In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.]

GLASS-BLOW-ER, n.

One whose business is to blow and fashion glass.

GLASS-FULL, n.

As much as a glass bolds.

GLASS-FUR-NACE, n.

A furnace in which the materials of glass are melted. Cyc.

GLASS-GAZ-ING, a.

Addicted to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. Shak.

GLASS-GRIND-ER, n.

One whose occupation is to grind and polish glass. Boyle.

GLASS-HOUSE, n.

A house where glass is made. Addison.

GLASS-I-LY, adv.

So as to resemble glass.

GLASS-I-NESS, n.

The quality of being glassy or smooth; a vitreous appearance.

GLASS-LIKE, a.

Resembling glass.

GLASS-MAN, n.

One who sells glass. Swift.

GLASS-MET-AL, n.

Glass in fusion. Boyle.

GLASS-POT, n.

A vessel used for melting glass in manufactories. Cyc.

GLASS-WORK, n.

Manufacture of glass.

GLASS-WORKS, n. plur.

The place or buildings where glass is made.

GLASS-WORT, n.

A plant, the popular name of some species of Salsola, all which may be used in the manufacture of glass. The barilla of commerce, is the semifused ashes of the Salida soda, which is largely cultivated on the Mediterranean in Spain.

GLASS-Y, a.

1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy sub-stance. Bacon.
2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, n glassy stream; a glary surface; the glassy deep. Shak. Dryden.