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Definitions of glass:

part of speech: adjective

Made of glass.

part of speech: noun

A hard, brittle, transparent substance, white or colored, made by melting together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide, and used for window- panes, mirrors, dishes, etc.; a drinking glass, or the quantity contained in it; a mirror; lens; a telescope, or barometer.

part of speech: noun

A hard, brittle, transparent substance, made by fusing powdered flint or fine sand with some alkali; a small drinking- vessel; the quantity contained therein; a mirror; a scientific instrument, as a prospect- glass, a weather- glass.

part of speech: verb transitive

To reflect, as in a mirror.

part of speech: noun

The hard, brittle, transparent substance in windows: anything made of glass, esp. a drinking vessel, a mirror, etc.:- pl. spectacles: the quantity of liquid a glass holds.

part of speech: adjective

GLASSLIKE.

part of speech: verb transitive

To case in glass.

Usage examples for glass:

• " Wall," sez I, " we can try to buy one, and at the same time I will order a glass polenay." "Samantha at the World's Fair", Marietta Holley

• " No,- give you strength to play the game," he said, and held the glass he had brought to his brother's lips. "The Lamp in the Desert", Ethel M. Dell

• But her laugh was full of art and grace, and she looked in the glass as she laughed, as if she were practising it. "Royal Highness", Thomas Mann

• I then gave her a little looking- glass the only one I had. "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson