vitrousadj.
rare.
Vitreous.
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vitrean1656
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vitrid1777
vitrous1779
semi-vitreous1783
1657 Physical Dict. Vitrous humor, a moisture like to molten glass or chrystal, which is a part of the eye.
1779 Sir W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 51 (note) A flexible, capillary, yellow glass,..with small vitrous globules at a little distance one from the other.
1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1336 Omalius admitted a genus of vitrous rocks comprehending the silicated, vitrified stones or rocks.
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adj.1657- on the mash
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