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   Gaelic-speaking
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English Dictionary: Glucophage by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Galega officinalis
n
  1. tall bushy European perennial grown for its pinnate foliage and slender spikes of blue flowers; sometimes used medicinally
    Synonym(s): goat's rue, goat rue, Galega officinalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gall wasp
n
  1. small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
    Synonym(s): gall wasp, gallfly, cynipid wasp, cynipid gall wasp
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gallows bird
n
  1. a person who deserves to be hanged
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gillespie
n
  1. United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)
    Synonym(s): Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glass fiber
n
  1. a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images
    Synonym(s): optical fiber, glass fiber, optical fibre, glass fibre
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glass fibre
n
  1. a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images
    Synonym(s): optical fiber, glass fiber, optical fibre, glass fibre
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glass over
v
  1. become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"
    Synonym(s): glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glass sponge
n
  1. a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glassblower
n
  1. someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glassful
n
  1. the quantity a glass will hold
    Synonym(s): glass, glassful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glaze over
v
  1. become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep"
    Synonym(s): film over, glaze over, blur
  2. become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"
    Synonym(s): glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gloss over
v
  1. treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly [syn: {gloss over}, skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp over]
  2. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"
    Synonym(s): whitewash, gloss over, sleek over, hush up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glossopharyngeal
adj
  1. pertaining to the tongue and throat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glossopharyngeal nerve
n
  1. sensory nerve to the pharynx and back of the tongue; motor fibers innervate muscles that elevate the pharynx and larynx; includes parasympathetic fibers to the otic ganglion
    Synonym(s): glossopharyngeal nerve, nervus glossopharyngeus, ninth cranial nerve
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Glossopsitta
n
  1. a genus of Loriinae [syn: Glossopsitta, {genus Glossopsitta}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Glossopsitta versicolor
n
  1. lorikeet with a colorful coat [syn: varied Lorikeet, Glossopsitta versicolor]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glossoptosis
n
  1. abnormal downward or back placement of the tongue
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glossy-furred
adj
  1. having glossy hair; "a glossy-coated foxhound" [syn: glossy-haired, glossy-coated, glossy-furred]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Glucophage
n
  1. an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes
    Synonym(s): metformin, Glucophage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glycoprotein
n
  1. a conjugated protein having a carbohydrate component
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
goalkeeper
n
  1. the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal
    Synonym(s): goalkeeper, goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder
  2. the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring
    Synonym(s): goalkeeper, goalie, goaltender, netkeeper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Golgi apparatus
n
  1. a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
    Synonym(s): Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Golgi body
n
  1. a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
    Synonym(s): Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Goat \Goat\, n. [OE goot, got, gat, AS. g[be]t; akin to D. geit,
      OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth.
      gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus {Capra}, of several
      species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat ({C. hircus}),
      which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
  
      Note: The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have
               long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile
               fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat ({Capra [91]gagrus}),
               of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its
               stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species
               ofthe domestic goat. The Rocky Montain goat
               ({Haplocercus montanus}) is more nearly related to the
               antelopes. See {Mazame}.
  
      {Goat antelope} (Zo[94]l), one of several species of
            antelopes, which in some respects resemble a goat, having
            recurved horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short,
            flat tail, as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara.
  
      {Goat fig} (Bot.), the wild fig.
  
      {Goat house}.
      (a) A place for keeping goats.
      (b) A brothel. [Obs.]
  
      {Goat moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth of the genus {Cossus}, esp.
            the large European species ({C. ligniperda}), the larva of
            which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three
            years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the
            he-goat.
  
      {Goat weed} (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus
            {Capraria} ({C. biflora}).
  
      {Goat's bane} (Bot.), a poisonous plant ({Aconitum
            Lucoctonum}), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from
            Switzerland into England; wolfsbane.
  
      {Goat's beard} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Tragopogon}; --
            so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One
            species is the salsify or oyster plant.
  
      {Goat's foot} (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel ({Oxalis
            caprina}) growing at the Cape of Good Hope.
  
      {Goat's rue} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Galega officinalis}
            of Europe, or {Tephrosia Virginiana} in the United
            States).
  
      {Goat's thorn} (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant ({Astragalus
            Tragacanthus}), found in the Levant.
  
      {Goat's wheat} (Bot.), the genus {Tragopyrum} (now referred
            to {Atraphaxis}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catbird \Cat"bird\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      An American bird ({Galeoscoptes Carolinensis}), allied to the
      mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of
      other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times
      the mewing of a cat.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gall \Gall\, n. [F. galle, noix de galle, fr. L. galla.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by
      insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by
      small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay
      their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls.
      Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See {Gallnut}.
  
      Note: The galls, or gallnuts, of commerce are produced by
               insects of the genus {Cynips}, chiefly on an oak
               ({Quercus infectoria [or] Lusitanica}) of Western Asia
               and Southern Europe. They contain much tannin, and are
               used in the manufacture of that article and for making
               ink and a black dye, as well as in medicine.
  
      {Gall insect} (Zo[94]l.), any insect that produces galls.
  
      {Gall midge} (Zo[94]l.), any small dipterous insect that
            produces galls.
  
      {Gall oak}, the oak ({Quercus infectoria}) which yields the
            galls of commerce.
  
      {Gall of glass}, the neutral salt skimmed off from the
            surface of melted crown glass;- called also {glass gall}
            and {sandiver}. --Ure.
  
      {Gall wasp}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gallfly}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Galliwasp \Gal"li*wasp`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A West Indian lizard ({Celestus occiduus}), about a foot
      long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallows \Gal"lows\, n. sing.; pl. {Gallowses}[or] {Gallows}.
      [OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to
      D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. g[be]lgi,
      Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and
      historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural
      number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded
      by a; as, a gallows.]
      1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which
            criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of
            two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like
            frame for suspending anything.
  
                     So they hanged Haman on the gallows.   --Esther vii.
                                                                              10.
  
                     If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. --Shak.
  
                     O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses[?]
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] --Shak.
  
      3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
  
      4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.]
  
      {Gallows bird}, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.]
           
  
      {Gallows bitts} (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships
            on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also
            {gallows}, {gallows top}, {gallows frame}, etc.
  
      {Gallows frame}.
            (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine.
            (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts.
  
      {Gallows}, [or]
  
      {Gallow tree}, the gallows.
  
                     At length him nail[82]d on a gallow tree. --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallows \Gal"lows\, n. sing.; pl. {Gallowses}[or] {Gallows}.
      [OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to
      D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. g[be]lgi,
      Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and
      historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural
      number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded
      by a; as, a gallows.]
      1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which
            criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of
            two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like
            frame for suspending anything.
  
                     So they hanged Haman on the gallows.   --Esther vii.
                                                                              10.
  
                     If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. --Shak.
  
                     O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses[?]
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] --Shak.
  
      3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
  
      4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.]
  
      {Gallows bird}, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.]
           
  
      {Gallows bitts} (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships
            on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also
            {gallows}, {gallows top}, {gallows frame}, etc.
  
      {Gallows frame}.
            (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine.
            (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts.
  
      {Gallows}, [or]
  
      {Gallow tree}, the gallows.
  
                     At length him nail[82]d on a gallow tree. --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallows \Gal"lows\, n. sing.; pl. {Gallowses}[or] {Gallows}.
      [OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to
      D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. g[be]lgi,
      Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and
      historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural
      number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded
      by a; as, a gallows.]
      1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which
            criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of
            two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like
            frame for suspending anything.
  
                     So they hanged Haman on the gallows.   --Esther vii.
                                                                              10.
  
                     If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. --Shak.
  
                     O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses[?]
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] --Shak.
  
      3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
  
      4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.]
  
      {Gallows bird}, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.]
           
  
      {Gallows bitts} (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships
            on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also
            {gallows}, {gallows top}, {gallows frame}, etc.
  
      {Gallows frame}.
            (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine.
            (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts.
  
      {Gallows}, [or]
  
      {Gallow tree}, the gallows.
  
                     At length him nail[82]d on a gallow tree. --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallows \Gal"lows\, n. sing.; pl. {Gallowses}[or] {Gallows}.
      [OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to
      D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. g[be]lgi,
      Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and
      historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural
      number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded
      by a; as, a gallows.]
      1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which
            criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of
            two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like
            frame for suspending anything.
  
                     So they hanged Haman on the gallows.   --Esther vii.
                                                                              10.
  
                     If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. --Shak.
  
                     O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses[?]
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.] --Shak.
  
      3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
  
      4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.]
  
      {Gallows bird}, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.]
           
  
      {Gallows bitts} (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships
            on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also
            {gallows}, {gallows top}, {gallows frame}, etc.
  
      {Gallows frame}.
            (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine.
            (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts.
  
      {Gallows}, [or]
  
      {Gallow tree}, the gallows.
  
                     At length him nail[82]d on a gallow tree. --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geloscopy \Ge*los"copy\, n. [Gr. [?] to laugh + -scopy.]
      Divination by means of laughter.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gill \Gill\, n. [Dan. gi[91]lle, gelle; akin to Sw. g[84]l,
      Icel. gj[94]lnar gills; cf. AS. geagl, geahl, jaw.]
      1. (Anat.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
  
                     Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills.
                                                                              --Ray.
  
      Note: Gills are usually lamellar or filamentous appendages,
               through which the blood circulates, and in which it is
               exposed to the action of the air contained in the
               water. In vertebrates they are appendages of the
               visceral arches on either side of the neck. In
               invertebrates they occupy various situations.
  
      2. pl. (Bot.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the
            under surface of a mushroom.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a
            fowl; a wattle.
  
      4. The flesh under or about the chin. --Swift.
  
      5. (Spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins
            which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer
            parallel filaments. [Prob. so called from F. aiguilles,
            needles. --Ure.]
  
      {Gill arches}, {Gill bars}. (Anat.) Same as {Branchial
            arches}.
  
      {Gill clefts}. (Anat.) Same as {Branchial clefts}. See under
            {Branchial}.
  
      {Gill cover}, {Gill lid}. See {Operculum}.
  
      {Gill frame}, [or] {Gill head} (Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a
            machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills.
            --Knight.
  
      {Gill net}, a flat net so suspended in the water that its
            meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the
            gills when they seek to extricate themselves.
  
      {Gill opening}, [or] {Gill slit} (Anat.), an opening behind
            and below the head of most fishes, and some amphibians, by
            which the water from the gills is discharged. In most
            fishes there is a single opening on each side, but in the
            sharks and rays there are five, or more, on each side.
  
      {Gill rakes}, [or] {Gill rakers} (Anat.), horny filaments, or
            progresses, on the inside of the branchial arches of
            fishes, which help to prevent solid substances from being
            carried into gill cavities.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rot \Rot\, n.
      1. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
  
      2. (Bot.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood,
            supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See {Bitter rot},
            {Black rot}, etc., below.
  
      3. [Cf. G. rotz glanders.] A fatal distemper which attacks
            sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the
            presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder.
            See 1st {Fluke}, 2.
  
                     His cattle must of rot and murrain die. --Milton.
  
      {Bitter rot} (Bot.), a disease of apples, caused by the
            fungus {Gl[91]osporium fructigenum}. --F. L. Scribner.
  
      {Black rot} (Bot.), a disease of grapevines, attacking the
            leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus {L[91]stadia
            Bidwellii}. --F. L. Scribner.
  
      {Dry rot} (Bot.) See under {Dry}.
  
      {Grinder's rot} (Med.) See under {Grinder}.
  
      {Potato rot}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}.
  
      {White rot} (Bot.), a disease of grapes, first appearing in
            whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus
            {Coniothyrium diplodiella}. --F. L. Scribner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G.,
      Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS.
      gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.]
      1. 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.
  
      Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
               thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
               red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
               yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
               gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
               emerald green; antimony, yellow.
  
      2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
            and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  
      3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
            (a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
            (b) 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.
  
                           She would not live The running of one glass.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
                  contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
                  liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
            (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
                  plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
                  glasses.
            (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  
      Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
               glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
               glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
  
      {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian},
            {Cut}, etc.
  
      {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
            plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
            silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
            lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
            crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
            in the process of blowing.
  
      {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in
            the Vocabulary.
  
      {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
            the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
            opened out, and flattened.
  
      {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
            sulphide.
  
      {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion
            glass.
  
      {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by
            heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube.
  
      {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
  
      {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
            the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
            called because originally private carriages alone had
            glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
  
                     Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
                     which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
                     term, which is never used in America, hired
                     carriages that do not go on stands.   --J. F.
                                                                              Cooper.
  
      {Glass cutter}.
            (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
                  panes, ets.
            (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
                  polishing.
            (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
                  cutting glass.
  
      {Glass cutting}.
            (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
                  glass into panes with a diamond.
            (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
                  appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
                  emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
                  especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
                  ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
                  scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
  
      {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
  
      {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative
            effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
            combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
            lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
            and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used
            indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
            and the like.
  
      {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
            for abrasive purposes.
  
      {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
            on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
  
      {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass
            into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
            deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
  
      {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of
            manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
            away color from the materials for glass.
  
      {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in
            its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
            a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
            Cf. Glass painting.
  
      {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
  
      {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
  
      {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
            of a borosilicate of potash.
  
      {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
  
      {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
            and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
            the best windows.
  
      {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
            when hot.
  
      {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
            found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
            or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
            rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
            stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
  
      {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
  
      {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or
            annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
            plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
            etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
            process, {Bastie glass}.
  
      {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
  
      {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G.,
      Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS.
      gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.]
      1. 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.
  
      Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
               thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
               red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
               yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
               gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
               emerald green; antimony, yellow.
  
      2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
            and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  
      3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
            (a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
            (b) 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.
  
                           She would not live The running of one glass.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
                  contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
                  liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
            (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
                  plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
                  glasses.
            (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  
      Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
               glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
               glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
  
      {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian},
            {Cut}, etc.
  
      {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
            plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
            silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
            lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
            crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
            in the process of blowing.
  
      {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in
            the Vocabulary.
  
      {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
            the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
            opened out, and flattened.
  
      {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
            sulphide.
  
      {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion
            glass.
  
      {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by
            heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube.
  
      {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
  
      {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
            the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
            called because originally private carriages alone had
            glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
  
                     Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
                     which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
                     term, which is never used in America, hired
                     carriages that do not go on stands.   --J. F.
                                                                              Cooper.
  
      {Glass cutter}.
            (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
                  panes, ets.
            (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
                  polishing.
            (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
                  cutting glass.
  
      {Glass cutting}.
            (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
                  glass into panes with a diamond.
            (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
                  appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
                  emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
                  especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
                  ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
                  scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
  
      {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
  
      {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative
            effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
            combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
            lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
            and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used
            indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
            and the like.
  
      {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
            for abrasive purposes.
  
      {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
            on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
  
      {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass
            into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
            deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
  
      {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of
            manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
            away color from the materials for glass.
  
      {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in
            its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
            a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
            Cf. Glass painting.
  
      {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
  
      {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
  
      {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
            of a borosilicate of potash.
  
      {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
  
      {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
            and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
            the best windows.
  
      {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
            when hot.
  
      {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
            found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
            or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
            rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
            stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
  
      {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
  
      {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or
            annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
            plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
            etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
            process, {Bastie glass}.
  
      {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
  
      {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G.,
      Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS.
      gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.]
      1. 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.
  
      Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
               thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
               red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
               yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
               gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
               emerald green; antimony, yellow.
  
      2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
            and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  
      3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
            (a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
            (b) 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.
  
                           She would not live The running of one glass.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
                  contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
                  liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
            (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
                  plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
                  glasses.
            (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  
      Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
               glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
               glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
  
      {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian},
            {Cut}, etc.
  
      {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
            plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
            silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
            lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
            crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
            in the process of blowing.
  
      {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in
            the Vocabulary.
  
      {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
            the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
            opened out, and flattened.
  
      {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
            sulphide.
  
      {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion
            glass.
  
      {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by
            heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube.
  
      {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
  
      {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
            the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
            called because originally private carriages alone had
            glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
  
                     Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
                     which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
                     term, which is never used in America, hired
                     carriages that do not go on stands.   --J. F.
                                                                              Cooper.
  
      {Glass cutter}.
            (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
                  panes, ets.
            (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
                  polishing.
            (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
                  cutting glass.
  
      {Glass cutting}.
            (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
                  glass into panes with a diamond.
            (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
                  appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
                  emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
                  especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
                  ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
                  scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
  
      {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
  
      {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative
            effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
            combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
            lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
            and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used
            indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
            and the like.
  
      {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
            for abrasive purposes.
  
      {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
            on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
  
      {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass
            into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
            deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
  
      {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of
            manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
            away color from the materials for glass.
  
      {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in
            its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
            a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
            Cf. Glass painting.
  
      {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
  
      {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
  
      {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
            of a borosilicate of potash.
  
      {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
  
      {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
            and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
            the best windows.
  
      {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
            when hot.
  
      {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
            found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
            or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
            rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
            stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
  
      {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
  
      {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or
            annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
            plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
            etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
            process, {Bastie glass}.
  
      {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
  
      {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G.,
      Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS.
      gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.]
      1. 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.
  
      Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
               thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
               red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
               yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
               gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
               emerald green; antimony, yellow.
  
      2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
            and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  
      3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
            (a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
            (b) 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.
  
                           She would not live The running of one glass.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
                  contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
                  liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
            (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
                  plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
                  glasses.
            (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  
      Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
               glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
               glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
  
      {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian},
            {Cut}, etc.
  
      {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
            plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
            silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
            lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
            crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
            in the process of blowing.
  
      {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in
            the Vocabulary.
  
      {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
            the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
            opened out, and flattened.
  
      {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
            sulphide.
  
      {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion
            glass.
  
      {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by
            heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube.
  
      {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
  
      {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
            the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
            called because originally private carriages alone had
            glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
  
                     Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
                     which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
                     term, which is never used in America, hired
                     carriages that do not go on stands.   --J. F.
                                                                              Cooper.
  
      {Glass cutter}.
            (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
                  panes, ets.
            (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
                  polishing.
            (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
                  cutting glass.
  
      {Glass cutting}.
            (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
                  glass into panes with a diamond.
            (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
                  appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
                  emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
                  especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
                  ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
                  scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
  
      {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
  
      {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative
            effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
            combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
            lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
            and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used
            indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
            and the like.
  
      {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
            for abrasive purposes.
  
      {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
            on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
  
      {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass
            into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
            deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
  
      {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of
            manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
            away color from the materials for glass.
  
      {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in
            its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
            a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
            Cf. Glass painting.
  
      {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
  
      {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
  
      {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
            of a borosilicate of potash.
  
      {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
  
      {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
            and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
            the best windows.
  
      {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
            when hot.
  
      {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
            found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
            or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
            rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
            stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
  
      {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
  
      {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or
            annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
            plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
            etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
            process, {Bastie glass}.
  
      {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
  
      {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G.,
      Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS.
      gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.]
      1. 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.
  
      Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
               thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
               red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
               yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
               gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
               emerald green; antimony, yellow.
  
      2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
            and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  
      3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
            (a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
            (b) 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.
  
                           She would not live The running of one glass.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
                  contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
                  liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
            (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
                  plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
                  glasses.
            (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  
      Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
               glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
               glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
  
      {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian},
            {Cut}, etc.
  
      {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
            plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
            silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
            lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
            crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
            in the process of blowing.
  
      {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in
            the Vocabulary.
  
      {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
            the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
            opened out, and flattened.
  
      {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
            sulphide.
  
      {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion
            glass.
  
      {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by
            heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube.
  
      {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
  
      {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
            the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
            called because originally private carriages alone had
            glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
  
                     Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
                     which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
                     term, which is never used in America, hired
                     carriages that do not go on stands.   --J. F.
                                                                              Cooper.
  
      {Glass cutter}.
            (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
                  panes, ets.
            (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
                  polishing.
            (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
                  cutting glass.
  
      {Glass cutting}.
            (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
                  glass into panes with a diamond.
            (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
                  appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
                  emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
                  especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
                  ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
                  scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
  
      {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
  
      {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative
            effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
            combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
            lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
            and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used
            indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
            and the like.
  
      {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
            for abrasive purposes.
  
      {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
            on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
  
      {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass
            into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
            deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
  
      {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of
            manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
            away color from the materials for glass.
  
      {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in
            its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
            a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
            Cf. Glass painting.
  
      {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
  
      {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
  
      {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
            of a borosilicate of potash.
  
      {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
  
      {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
            and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
            the best windows.
  
      {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
            when hot.
  
      {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
            found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
            or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
            rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
            stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
  
      {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
  
      {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or
            annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
            plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
            etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
            process, {Bastie glass}.
  
      {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
  
      {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G.,
      Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS.
      gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.]
      1. 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.
  
      Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides;
               thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous),
               red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium,
               yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown;
               gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium,
               emerald green; antimony, yellow.
  
      2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance,
            and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  
      3. Anything made of glass. Especially:
            (a) A looking-glass; a mirror.
            (b) 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.
  
                           She would not live The running of one glass.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the
                  contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous
                  liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
            (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the
                  plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears
                  glasses.
            (e) A weatherglass; a barometer.
  
      Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as,
               glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or
               glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc.
  
      {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian},
            {Cut}, etc.
  
      {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest
            plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of
            silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of
            lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of
            crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it
            in the process of blowing.
  
      {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in
            the Vocabulary.
  
      {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in
            the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally,
            opened out, and flattened.
  
      {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with
            sulphide.
  
      {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion
            glass.
  
      {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by
            heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube.
  
      {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers.
  
      {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for
            the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so
            called because originally private carriages alone had
            glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart.
  
                     Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from
                     which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this
                     term, which is never used in America, hired
                     carriages that do not go on stands.   --J. F.
                                                                              Cooper.
  
      {Glass cutter}.
            (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window
                  panes, ets.
            (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and
                  polishing.
            (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for
                  cutting glass.
  
      {Glass cutting}.
            (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of
                  glass into panes with a diamond.
            (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by
                  appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand,
                  emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied;
                  especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth
                  ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental
                  scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved.
  
      {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass.
  
      {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative
            effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and
            combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of
            lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting
            and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used
            indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows,
            and the like.
  
      {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used
            for abrasive purposes.
  
      {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion,
            on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
  
      {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass
            into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a
            deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam.
  
      {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of
            manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take
            away color from the materials for glass.
  
      {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in
            its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in
            a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass.
            Cf. Glass painting.
  
      {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}.
  
      {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made.
  
      {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially
            of a borosilicate of potash.
  
      {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}.
  
      {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates,
            and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and
            the best windows.
  
      {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure
            when hot.
  
      {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium,
            found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder,
            or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for
            rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial
            stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}.
  
      {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid.
  
      {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or
            annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by
            plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine,
            etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the
            process, {Bastie glass}.
  
      {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above.
  
      {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sponge \Sponge\, n. [OF. esponge, F. [82]ponge, L. spongia, Gr.
      [?], [?]. Cf. {Fungus}, {Spunk}.] [Formerly written also
      {spunge}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of Spongi[91], or
            Porifera. See Illust. and Note under {Spongi[91]}.
  
      2. The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny
            Spongi[91] (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially
            the varieties of the genus {Spongia}. The most valuable
            sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea,
            and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
  
      3. Fig.: One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and
            indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
  
      4. Any spongelike substance. Specifically:
            (a) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and
                  after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the
                  agency of the yeast or leaven.
            (b) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
            (c) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
  
      5. (Gun.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a
            discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with
            sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped
            nap, and having a handle, or staff.
  
      6. (Far.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering
            to the heel.
  
      {Bath sponge}, any one of several varieties of coarse
            commercial sponges, especially {Spongia equina}.
  
      {Cup sponge}, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form.
           
  
      {Glass sponge}. See {Glass-sponge}, in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Glove sponge}, a variety of commercial sponge ({Spongia
            officinalis}, variety {tubulufera}), having very fine
            fibers, native of Florida, and the West Indies.
  
      {Grass sponge}, any one of several varieties of coarse
            commercial sponges having the surface irregularly tufted,
            as {Spongia graminea}, and {S. equina}, variety
            {cerebriformis}, of Florida and the West Indies.
  
      {Horse sponge}, a coarse commercial sponge, especially
            {Spongia equina}.
  
      {Platinum sponge}. (Chem.) See under {Platinum}.
  
      {Pyrotechnical sponge}, a substance made of mushrooms or
            fungi, which are boiled in water, dried, and beaten, then
            put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again
            dried in an oven. This makes the black match, or tinder,
            brought from Germany.
  
      {Sheep's-wool sponge}, a fine and durable commercial sponge
            ({Spongia equina}, variety {gossypina}) found in Florida
            and the West Indies. The surface is covered with larger
            and smaller tufts, having the oscula between them.
  
      {Sponge cake}, a kind of sweet cake which is light and
            spongy.
  
      {Sponge lead}, [or] {Spongy lead} (Chem.), metallic lead
            brought to a spongy form by reduction of lead salts, or by
            compressing finely divided lead; -- used in secondary
            batteries and otherwise.
  
      {Sponge tree} (Bot.), a tropical leguminous tree ({Acacia
            Farnesiana}), with deliciously fragrant flowers, which are
            used in perfumery.
  
      {Toilet sponge}, a very fine and superior variety of
            Mediterranean sponge ({Spongia officinalis}, variety
            {Mediterranea}); -- called also {turkish sponge}.
  
      {To set a sponge} (Cookery), to leaven a small mass of flour,
            to be used in leavening a larger quantity.
  
      {To throw up the sponge}, to give up a contest; to
            acknowledge defeat; -- from a custom of the prize ring,
            the person employed to sponge a pugilist between rounds
            throwing his sponge in the air in token of defeat. [Cant
            or Slang] [bd]He was too brave a man to throw up the
            sponge to fate.[b8] --Lowell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass-faced \Glass"-faced`\, a.
      Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.]
      [bd]The glass-faced flatterer.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glassful \Glass"ful\, a.
      Glassy; shining like glass. [Obs.] [bd]Minerva's glassful
      shield.[b8] --Marston.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glassful \Glass"ful\, n.; pl. {Glassfuls}.
      The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will
      hold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glassful \Glass"ful\, n.; pl. {Glassfuls}.
      The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will
      hold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glass-sponge \Glass"-sponge`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A siliceous sponge, of the genus {Hyalonema}, and allied
      genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; --
      called also {vitreous sponge}. See {Glass-rope}, and
      {Euplectella}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sanidine \San"i*dine\, n. [Gr. [?]. [?], a board. So called in
      allusion to the tabular crystals.] (Min.)
      A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive
      rocks, as trachyte; -- called also {glassy feldspar}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glassy \Glass"y\, a.
      1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. --Bacon.
  
      2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness,
            brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a
            glassy surface; the glassy deep.
  
      3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the
            eyes. [bd]In his glassy eye.[b8] --Byron.
  
      {Glassy feldspar} (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sanidine \San"i*dine\, n. [Gr. [?]. [?], a board. So called in
      allusion to the tabular crystals.] (Min.)
      A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive
      rocks, as trachyte; -- called also {glassy feldspar}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glassy \Glass"y\, a.
      1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. --Bacon.
  
      2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness,
            brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a
            glassy surface; the glassy deep.
  
      3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the
            eyes. [bd]In his glassy eye.[b8] --Byron.
  
      {Glassy feldspar} (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glaucophane \Glau"co*phane\, n. [Gr. [?] silvery, gray + [?] to
      appear.] (Min.)
      A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is
      characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glossoepiglottic \Glos`so*ep`i*glot"tic\, a. [Gr. [?] tongue +
      E. epiglottic.] (Anat.)
      Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as,
      glossoepiglottic folds.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Soricine \So"ri*cine\, a. [L. sorricinus, fr. sorex a shrew.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricid[91]); like a
      shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat ({Glossophaga
      soricina}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glossopharyngeal \Glos`so*phar`yn*ge"al\, a. [Gr. [?] the tongue
      + E. pharyngeal.] (Anat.)
      Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied
      especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are
      distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the
      glossopharyngeal nerves.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Musk \Musk\, n. [F. musc, L. muscus, Per. musk, fr. Skr. mushka
      testicle, orig., a little mouse. See {Mouse}, and cd.
      {Abelmosk}, {Muscadel}, {Muscovy duck}, {Nutmeg}.]
      1. A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of
            the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind
            the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter
            taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and
            enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant
            antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of
            various other animals, having a similar odor.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The musk deer. See {Musk deer} (below).
  
      3. The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat
            similar.
  
      4. (Bot.)
            (a) The musk plant ({Mimulus moschatus}).
            (b) A plant of the genus {Erodium} ({E. moschatum}); --
                  called also {musky heron's-bill}.
            (c) A plant of the genus {Muscari}; grape hyacinth.
  
      {Musk beaver} (Zo[94]l.), muskrat (1).
  
      {Musk beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a European longicorn beetle
            ({Aromia moschata}), having an agreeable odor resembling
            that of attar of roses.
  
      {Musk cat}. See {Bondar}.
  
      {Musk cattle} (Zo[94]l.), musk oxen. See {Musk ox} (below).
           
  
      {Musk deer} (Zo[94]l.), a small hornless deer ({Moschus
            moschiferus}), which inhabits the elevated parts of
            Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are
            developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has
            scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce
            is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish
            below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil
            and napu.
  
      {Musk duck}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The Muscovy duck.
            (b) An Australian duck ({Biziura lobata}).
  
      {Musk lorikeet} (Zo[94]l.), the Pacific lorikeet
            ({Glossopsitta australis}) of Australia.
  
      {Musk mallow} (Bot.), a name of two malvaceous plants:
            (a) A species of mallow ({Malva moschata}), the foliage of
                  which has a faint musky smell.
            (b) An Asiatic shrub. See {Abelmosk}.
  
      {Musk orchis} (Bot.), a European plant of the Orchis family
            ({Herminium Minorchis}); -- so called from its peculiar
            scent.
  
      {Musk ox} (Zo[94]l.), an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant
            ({Ovibos moschatus}), now existing only in America, but
            found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a
            thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark
            hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and
            shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred
            pounds.
  
      {Musk parakeet}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Musk lorikeet} (above).
           
  
      {Musk pear} (Bot.), a fragrant kind of pear much resembling
            the Seckel pear.
  
      {Musk plant} (Bot.), the {Mimulus moschatus}, a plant found
            in Western North America, often cultivated, and having a
            strong musky odor.
  
      {Musk root} (Bot.), the name of several roots with a strong
            odor, as that of the nard ({Nardostachys Jatamansi}) and
            of a species of {Angelica}.
  
      {Musk rose} (Bot.), a species of rose ({Rosa moschata}),
            having peculiarly fragrant white blossoms.
  
      {Musk seed} (Bot.), the seed of a plant of the Mallow family
            ({Hibiscus moschatus}), used in perfumery and in
            flavoring. See {Abelmosk}.
  
      {Musk sheep} (Zo[94]l.), the musk ox.
  
      {Musk shrew} (Zo[94]l.), a shrew ({Sorex murinus}), found in
            India. It has a powerful odor of musk. Called also
            {sondeli}, and {mondjourou}.
  
      {Musk thistle} (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Carduus
            nutans}), having fine large flowers, and leaves smelling
            strongly of musk.
  
      {Musk tortoise}, {Musk turtle} (Zo[94]l.), a small American
            fresh-water tortoise ({Armochelys, [or] Ozotheca,
            odorata}), which has a distinct odor of musk; -- called
            also {stinkpot}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Goal \Goal\, n. [F. gaule pole, Prov. F. waule, of German
      origin; cf. Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel.
      v[94]lr a round stick; prob. akin to E. wale.]
      1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the
            constestants run, or from which they start to return to it
            again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
  
                     Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With
                     rapid wheels.                                    --Milton.
  
      2. The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends,
            or which a person aims to reach or attain.
  
                     Each individual seeks a several goal. --Pope.
  
      3. A base, station, or bound used in various games; in
            football, a line between two posts across which the ball
            must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the
            ball over the line between the goal posts.
  
      {Goal keeper}, the player charged with the defense of the
            goal.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gales Ferry, CT
      Zip code(s): 06335

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Galesburg, IL (city, FIPS 28326)
      Location: 40.95004 N, 90.37793 W
      Population (1990): 33530 (14322 housing units)
      Area: 43.7 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 61401
   Galesburg, KS (city, FIPS 25150)
      Location: 37.47236 N, 95.35564 W
      Population (1990): 160 (77 housing units)
      Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 66740
   Galesburg, MI (city, FIPS 31260)
      Location: 42.29065 N, 85.41755 W
      Population (1990): 1863 (747 housing units)
      Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 49053
   Galesburg, ND (city, FIPS 28980)
      Location: 47.27059 N, 97.40846 W
      Population (1990): 161 (82 housing units)
      Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 58035

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Galesville, WI (city, FIPS 28200)
      Location: 44.08418 N, 91.35623 W
      Population (1990): 1278 (552 housing units)
      Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 54630

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gaylesville, AL (town, FIPS 29296)
      Location: 34.26790 N, 85.55828 W
      Population (1990): 149 (64 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 35973

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   Gillespie, IL (city, FIPS 29236)
      Location: 39.12536 N, 89.81717 W
      Population (1990): 3645 (1561 housing units)
      Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gillespie County, TX (county, FIPS 171)
      Location: 30.31272 N, 98.94983 W
      Population (1990): 17204 (8265 housing units)
      Area: 2748.4 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gillsville, GA (town, FIPS 32860)
      Location: 34.31152 N, 83.63749 W
      Population (1990): 113 (57 housing units)
      Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 30543

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glasford, IL (village, FIPS 29483)
      Location: 40.57232 N, 89.81317 W
      Population (1990): 1115 (426 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 61533

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glasgow Village, MO (CDP, FIPS 27226)
      Location: 38.75821 N, 90.19693 W
      Population (1990): 5199 (2000 housing units)
      Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glassboro, NJ (borough, FIPS 26340)
      Location: 39.70130 N, 75.11326 W
      Population (1990): 15614 (5440 housing units)
      Area: 23.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 08028

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glassport, PA (borough, FIPS 29432)
      Location: 40.32535 N, 79.88663 W
      Population (1990): 5582 (2508 housing units)
      Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 15045

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   glassfet /glas'fet/ n.   [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym
   for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] Syn.
   {firebottle}, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   glass box testing
  
      {white box testing}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   glassfet
  
      /glas'fet/ [Analogy with {MOSFET}] (or "{firebottle}") A
      humorous way to refer to a {vacuum tube}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Glisp
  
      Generalized LISP.   D.C. Smith, Aug 1990.   A coordinated set of
      high-level syntaxes for Common LISP.   Contains Mlisp, Plisp
      and ordinary LISP, with an extensible framework for adding
      others.   Written in Plisp.
  
      {(ftp://bric-a-brac.apple.com/dts/mac/lisp)}.
  
  
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