glassyadj.n.¹

Brit.

/ˈɡlɑːsi/,

/ˈɡlasi/, U.S.

/ˈɡlæsi/

Forms: In Middle English–1500s glasy; 1500s–1600s glassie.

Etymology: < glass n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Glassy is not phonetically identical with the earlier glasy (compare glazy adj. 1), but a distinct new formation.

A. adj.

a. Having the nature or properties of glass, vitreous; resembling glass in any of its conspicuous properties; appearing as if made of glass.† glassy phlegm: (= medieval Latin fleuma vitreum, see quot. 1398).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective]

glassy1398

vitrial1605

vitreous1646

vitrean1656

vitrine1656

hyalinea1661

vitrid1777

vitrous1779

semi-vitreous1783

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. ix. 94 Some flewmes ben glasy and ben soo callyd for liknesse of colour of glasse.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 314/1 Glasye of the nature of glasse, voierreux.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B3^v She..Could picke no meaning from their parling lookes, Nor read the subtle shining secrecies, Writ in the glassie margents of such bookes.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 93 They helpe the chollicke proceeding from a glassie tough fleame.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 168 Glassy actinolite.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 627 The glassy quartz retains its natural consistence.

1821 Examiner 172/1 Her singing..used..to be occasionally too hard and glassy.

1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 23 The glassy pinnacles of the surrounding Alps.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 333 This lava..is remarkable for the glassy felspars which it contains.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxx. 258 We had to quarry out the blocks [ice] in flinty, glassy lumps.

1854 P. H. Gosse Nat. Hist.: Mollusca 71 The shell is glassy and colourless.

b. glassy humour (of the eye): now usually called the vitreous adj. humour (see quot. 1728). glassy membrane (see quot. 1885).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > humours of

humoura1398

glassy humour?1541

aqueous humour1643

vitreous humour (or body)1663

hydatoid1706

vitreous1869

eye-water1874

aqueous1879

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Eiij^v Y^e glasy humour that susteyneth & compryseth all the hyndre party of y^e humour crystallyne.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 284 The eies of a horsse..see perfectly in the night, yet their colour varieth as it doth in men, according to the caprine and glazie humor.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. xxx. 54 (note) The third..is called the glassie humour.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 178 Resembling the watry or glassie humours of the eye.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Humour The Vitrious, or Glassy Humour, fills the posterior Part of the Eye; and is denominated from its Resemblance of melted Glass.

1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Glassy membrane, a hyaline membrane immediately outside the outer root-sheath of the hair-follicle.

c. Pathology. Of a surface: Hard and lustrous.

ΚΠ

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 729 The surface [of a wound] continued glassy with a display of pale and flabby granulations.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 462/2 The skin is pale and glassy and stretched.

d. Of properties, etc.: Resembling what pertains to glass.

ΚΠ

1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) i. xxiv. 84 A Glassie Gray.

?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 150 in School of Arts (ed. 2) The composition will..appear of a most beautiful bright, and glassy nature.

1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands II. App. 273 The cool glassy look a snake always has.

1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 6 The glassy tinkle of water.

1884 Congregationalist June 493 The green glassy tints of the Viescher glacier.

†e. figurative. Brittle or frail as glass. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile

bricklec1225

froughc1275

brisel1303

brocklec1315

brittlea1382

fraila1382

brotelc1384

frangiblec1440

frushing1488

bruckle1513

brash1566

breakable1570

weak1581

glassya1591

brake1600

frushy1610

fragilea1616

kexy1641

brickly1670

cracky1725

fractile1727

frush1802

slattery1829

crackable1862

snappable1866

smashable1884

spaulty1895

1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips lxvii. 473 It is called glassy because of the frailetie and bricklenes.]

a1591 R. Greenham Wks. (1599) 44 It is to be feared, that..mens teaching will become glassie, bright and brittle.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxxii. 209 Let them beware of glassy and slippery youth.

1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. vii. 181 Come, let us..tell him, of what weake and glassie matter he hath made us.

1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ 43 Pleasures..fitly are they compared to a Sea of glasse..but alas! how soon is that glassie glory crack't!

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 306 Snapping short The glassy threads with which the Fancy weaves Her brittle toils.

2. Of the eye, etc.: Having a fixed unintelligent look, lacking fire or life, dull.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc.

steepc1000

standing1340

glazenc1380

glassy1412

ungladlyc1450

sparklinga1500

goggle1540

pinking1566

whally1590

vailed1591

unweeping1598

dejected1600

unwet1601

glossed1602

haggard1605

saucer-like1612

saucer1618

glaring1622

uncast1629

startling1648

poppinga1696

upraised1707

glancy1733

glazed1735

almond1786

open-eyed1799

bald1807

glazing1808

lustreless1810

unfathomable1817

vague1820

soulless1824

beady1826

socketless1833

fishy1836

glazy1838

popped1849

agoggled1860

uprolled1864

unfaceted1893

shoe-button1895

poppy1899

googly1901

slitty1908

bead-berry1923

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xvii Yet they be as Iar~gaunt as a pye Right pale cheared with a glasye eye.

1815 Ld. Byron Saul i, in Hebrew Melodies 26 Death stood all glassy in his fixed eye.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 28 Casting a glassy look about the apartment.

1831 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) I. 237 His eyes have an odd glassy stare.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. vii. 144 Their fixed glassy eyes glare as if in anger.

3. Of water, etc.: (a) lustrous and transparent as glass; (b) having a surface like glass, smooth, unruffled. Hence also glassy calm, glassy quiet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > not rough

stillOE

plainc1330

smoothc1374

demure1377

calmc1440

softa1450

glassy1535

sleek1603

eddyless1621

oily smooth1803

waveless1804

foamless1821

undimpled1821

rippleless1832

the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > properties or characteristics of water > lustrous or transparent like glass

glassy1535

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rev. xv. 2 And I sawe as it were a glassye see [1382 Wyclif a glasen see, 1611 a sea of glasse], mingled with fyre.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D3^v Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassie streames.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 619 The cleer Hyaline, the Glassie Sea.

1781 W. Cowper Truth 259 His conscience, like a glassy lake before, Lashed into foaming waves, begins to roar.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxi. 63 Pointing to the glassy water, which, as it rose and fell, reflected the golden glow of the sky.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xix. 267 Stilled into a glassy calm.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iv. 24 All the weary way From outer ocean unto glassy quiet here.

†4. Of glass; made of or consisting of glass.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > made of or furnished with glass

glazen971

glassc1275

glassyc1440

glazed1591

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 198/1 Glasy, or glasyne, or made of glas,..vitreus.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd^v The glassy globe that Merlin made.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Monstre,..the glassie box that stands on the stalls of Gold~smiths, Cutlers, &c.

1651 tr. J. Pape Conc. Apothecaries Confecting Medicines in R. Record Urinal of Physick (new ed.) 234 That the matter..bee poured forth into a glassie dish or platter.

1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. i. xi. 33 The Glassie part of this compounded Syphon.

1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 199 Of painted Earth a Vessel quickly take..Or else a glassy Bowl, the brittler Ware.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 109 A glassy Globe, in Frame of Ivory, prest.

B. n.¹

Surfing. (See quot. 1967.)

ΚΠ

1962 T. Masters Surfing made Easy 64 Glassy, smooth water, no wind, if the surf is up then the best of surfing conditions.

1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 20/2 Last week the surf was a ‘glassy’, no wind and the waves smooth.

1967 J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss. Glassy, an extremely smooth surface or wave, usually giving off a glasslike reflection.

Compounds

glassy-eyed, glassy-headed, glassy-smooth adjs.

ΚΠ

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 500 Glassy smooth lay all the liquid plain.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 125 A little glassy-headed hairless man.

1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 183 A glassy~eyed, and stiff-kneed circle.

Derivatives

ˈglassily adv.

ΚΠ

1827 T. Moore Epicurean (1839) viii. 67 Waters..rolled glassily over the edge.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxiv, in Writings I. 251 He..did nothing but slightly bow, and look glassily about him.

1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 5 Glassily lisping, lisping low, lisping amorously.

ˈglassiness n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > quality or condition of

glassiness1611

vitrescency1756

vitrescence1794

hyalescence1864

vitreosity1889

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vitrification, Glassinesse or the making of Glasse.

1667 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 294 So Gum may give the Silk a glassiness, that is, may make it seem finer, as also stiffer.

1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy xxxi. 230 The glassiness (if I may be allowed the expression) of the surface throws, in my opinion, a false light on some parts of the picture.

a1788 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (1790) II. 92 The eyes have now a languor and glassiness.

1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 525 The frequent workings over of the crayons would cause glassiness.

1884 A. T. Wise in Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 10 214 In contrast with the glassiness of its tranquil waters.

1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London 108 The brassiness of the crowns, and the glassiness of the jewels.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	glassy
释义	glassyn.² Brit. /ˈɡlɑːsi/, /ˈɡlasi/, U.S. /ˈɡlæsi/ Forms: Also glassey, glassie. Etymology: < glass n.¹ + -y suffix⁶. A glass marble. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of nicker1675 alley1720 blood alley1821 commoney1837 Rouge Royal1837 peewee1848 stoney1856 knicker1860 bonce1862 plunker1863 dobber1875 agate1886 mig1886 glassy1887 miggle1890 shooter1892 aggie1896 knuckler1896 milkie1908 ghoen1913 miggie1916 immy1928 glarney1953 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Glassey, a marble or ‘taw’ made of glass of various colours. 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow viii. 200 Then suddenly she ceased to hear, having caught sight of a glassie rolled into a corner. 1933 J. Thorpe Happy Days i. 29 The owner of a ‘glassy’, which was decorated internally with beautifully twisted colours, placed it in the centre of the road. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xxxvi. 365 Cal was able to develop his marble game and set about gathering in all the chalkies and immies, glassies and agates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). glassyadj.n.¹ Brit. /ˈɡlɑːsi/, /ˈɡlasi/, U.S. /ˈɡlæsi/ Forms: In Middle English–1500s glasy; 1500s–1600s glassie. Etymology: < glass n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Glassy is not phonetically identical with the earlier glasy (compare glazy adj. 1), but a distinct new formation. A. adj. 1. a. Having the nature or properties of glass, vitreous; resembling glass in any of its conspicuous properties; appearing as if made of glass.† glassy phlegm: (= medieval Latin fleuma vitreum, see quot. 1398). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] glassy1398 vitrial1605 vitreous1646 vitrean1656 vitrine1656 hyalinea1661 vitrid1777 vitrous1779 semi-vitreous1783 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. ix. 94 Some flewmes ben glasy and ben soo callyd for liknesse of colour of glasse. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 314/1 Glasye of the nature of glasse, voierreux. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B3^v She..Could picke no meaning from their parling lookes, Nor read the subtle shining secrecies, Writ in the glassie margents of such bookes. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 93 They helpe the chollicke proceeding from a glassie tough fleame. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 168 Glassy actinolite. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 627 The glassy quartz retains its natural consistence. 1821 Examiner 172/1 Her singing..used..to be occasionally too hard and glassy. 1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 23 The glassy pinnacles of the surrounding Alps. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 333 This lava..is remarkable for the glassy felspars which it contains. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxx. 258 We had to quarry out the blocks [ice] in flinty, glassy lumps. 1854 P. H. Gosse Nat. Hist.: Mollusca 71 The shell is glassy and colourless. b. glassy humour (of the eye): now usually called the vitreous adj. humour (see quot. 1728). glassy membrane (see quot. 1885). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > humours of humoura1398 glassy humour?1541 aqueous humour1643 vitreous humour (or body)1663 hydatoid1706 vitreous1869 eye-water1874 aqueous1879 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Eiij^v Y^e glasy humour that susteyneth & compryseth all the hyndre party of y^e humour crystallyne. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 284 The eies of a horsse..see perfectly in the night, yet their colour varieth as it doth in men, according to the caprine and glazie humor. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. xxx. 54 (note) The third..is called the glassie humour. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 178 Resembling the watry or glassie humours of the eye. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Humour The Vitrious, or Glassy Humour, fills the posterior Part of the Eye; and is denominated from its Resemblance of melted Glass. 1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Glassy membrane, a hyaline membrane immediately outside the outer root-sheath of the hair-follicle. c. Pathology. Of a surface: Hard and lustrous. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 729 The surface [of a wound] continued glassy with a display of pale and flabby granulations. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 462/2 The skin is pale and glassy and stretched. d. Of properties, etc.: Resembling what pertains to glass. ΚΠ 1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) i. xxiv. 84 A Glassie Gray. ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 150 in School of Arts (ed. 2) The composition will..appear of a most beautiful bright, and glassy nature. 1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands II. App. 273 The cool glassy look a snake always has. 1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 6 The glassy tinkle of water. 1884 Congregationalist June 493 The green glassy tints of the Viescher glacier. †e. figurative. Brittle or frail as glass. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile bricklec1225 froughc1275 brisel1303 brocklec1315 brittlea1382 fraila1382 brotelc1384 frangiblec1440 frushing1488 bruckle1513 brash1566 breakable1570 weak1581 glassya1591 brake1600 frushy1610 fragilea1616 kexy1641 brickly1670 cracky1725 fractile1727 frush1802 slattery1829 crackable1862 snappable1866 smashable1884 spaulty1895 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips lxvii. 473 It is called glassy because of the frailetie and bricklenes.] a1591 R. Greenham Wks. (1599) 44 It is to be feared, that..mens teaching will become glassie, bright and brittle. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxxii. 209 Let them beware of glassy and slippery youth. 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. vii. 181 Come, let us..tell him, of what weake and glassie matter he hath made us. 1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ 43 Pleasures..fitly are they compared to a Sea of glasse..but alas! how soon is that glassie glory crack't! 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 306 Snapping short The glassy threads with which the Fancy weaves Her brittle toils. 2. Of the eye, etc.: Having a fixed unintelligent look, lacking fire or life, dull. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. steepc1000 standing1340 glazenc1380 glassy1412 ungladlyc1450 sparklinga1500 goggle1540 pinking1566 whally1590 vailed1591 unweeping1598 dejected1600 unwet1601 glossed1602 haggard1605 saucer-like1612 saucer1618 glaring1622 uncast1629 startling1648 poppinga1696 upraised1707 glancy1733 glazed1735 almond1786 open-eyed1799 bald1807 glazing1808 lustreless1810 unfathomable1817 vague1820 soulless1824 beady1826 socketless1833 fishy1836 glazy1838 popped1849 agoggled1860 uprolled1864 unfaceted1893 shoe-button1895 poppy1899 googly1901 slitty1908 bead-berry1923 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xvii Yet they be as Iar~gaunt as a pye Right pale cheared with a glasye eye. 1815 Ld. Byron Saul i, in Hebrew Melodies 26 Death stood all glassy in his fixed eye. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 28 Casting a glassy look about the apartment. 1831 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) I. 237 His eyes have an odd glassy stare. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. vii. 144 Their fixed glassy eyes glare as if in anger. 3. Of water, etc.: (a) lustrous and transparent as glass; (b) having a surface like glass, smooth, unruffled. Hence also glassy calm, glassy quiet. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > not rough stillOE plainc1330 smoothc1374 demure1377 calmc1440 softa1450 glassy1535 sleek1603 eddyless1621 oily smooth1803 waveless1804 foamless1821 undimpled1821 rippleless1832 the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > properties or characteristics of water > lustrous or transparent like glass glassy1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rev. xv. 2 And I sawe as it were a glassye see [1382 Wyclif a glasen see, 1611 a sea of glasse], mingled with fyre. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D3^v Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassie streames. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 619 The cleer Hyaline, the Glassie Sea. View more context for this quotation 1781 W. Cowper Truth 259 His conscience, like a glassy lake before, Lashed into foaming waves, begins to roar. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxi. 63 Pointing to the glassy water, which, as it rose and fell, reflected the golden glow of the sky. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xix. 267 Stilled into a glassy calm. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iv. 24 All the weary way From outer ocean unto glassy quiet here. †4. Of glass; made of or consisting of glass. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > made of or furnished with glass glazen971 glassc1275 glassyc1440 glazed1591 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 198/1 Glasy, or glasyne, or made of glas,..vitreus. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd^v The glassy globe that Merlin made. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Monstre,..the glassie box that stands on the stalls of Gold~smiths, Cutlers, &c. 1651 tr. J. Pape Conc. Apothecaries Confecting Medicines in R. Record Urinal of Physick (new ed.) 234 That the matter..bee poured forth into a glassie dish or platter. 1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. i. xi. 33 The Glassie part of this compounded Syphon. 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 199 Of painted Earth a Vessel quickly take..Or else a glassy Bowl, the brittler Ware. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 109 A glassy Globe, in Frame of Ivory, prest. B. n.¹ Surfing. (See quot. 1967.) ΚΠ 1962 T. Masters Surfing made Easy 64 Glassy, smooth water, no wind, if the surf is up then the best of surfing conditions. 1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 20/2 Last week the surf was a ‘glassy’, no wind and the waves smooth. 1967 J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss. Glassy, an extremely smooth surface or wave, usually giving off a glasslike reflection. Compounds glassy-eyed, glassy-headed, glassy-smooth adjs. ΚΠ 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 500 Glassy smooth lay all the liquid plain. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 125 A little glassy-headed hairless man. 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 183 A glassy~eyed, and stiff-kneed circle. Derivatives ˈglassily adv. ΚΠ 1827 T. Moore Epicurean (1839) viii. 67 Waters..rolled glassily over the edge. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxiv, in Writings I. 251 He..did nothing but slightly bow, and look glassily about him. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 5 Glassily lisping, lisping low, lisping amorously. ˈglassiness n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > quality or condition of glassiness1611 vitrescency1756 vitrescence1794 hyalescence1864 vitreosity1889 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vitrification, Glassinesse or the making of Glasse. 1667 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 294 So Gum may give the Silk a glassiness, that is, may make it seem finer, as also stiffer. 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy xxxi. 230 The glassiness (if I may be allowed the expression) of the surface throws, in my opinion, a false light on some parts of the picture. a1788 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (1790) II. 92 The eyes have now a languor and glassiness. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 525 The frequent workings over of the crayons would cause glassiness. 1884 A. T. Wise in Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 10 214 In contrast with the glassiness of its tranquil waters. 1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London 108 The brassiness of the crowns, and the glassiness of the jewels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.²1887adj.n.¹1398
随便看	colder colder than a witch's teat colder than a witch's tit coldest coldfinch coldfooted coldfooter coldfoundered coldhammer coldhammering coldhead coldhearted coldheartedly coldheartedness coldheartednesses colding coldish coldishly coldlier coldliest coldlivered coldly coldmeat box coldmeat cart coldmeat party

glassyn.2

glassyadj.n.1

Compounds

Derivatives

glassyn.²

glassyadj.n.¹