Glass
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.
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
Anything made of glass.
A looking-glass; a mirror.
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.
A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
A weatherglass; a barometer.
To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
To case in glass.
To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
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Glass Quotations
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.
Mitch Hedberg
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
Rodney Dangerfield
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Aquinas
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
John Buchan
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Glass Translations
glass in Afrikaans is glas
glass in Danish is glas
glass in Dutch is drinkglas, glas
glass in Finnish is juomalasi, lasi
glass in French is verre, vitre
glass in German is Spiegel, Glas, Glas
glass in Italian is calice, vetro
glass in Norwegian is speil, glass
glass in Portuguese is vidro, copo
glass in Spanish is cascara, cristal, vidrio, vaso
glass in Swedish is glas
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