glassen

comparative more glassen · superlative most glassen

1. Made of or consisting of glass.

   But I had a glassen vessel, of a narrow neck, weighing 1354 grains: […]

   2013, Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy

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   From the castle calls Ileana, Refrain (Looking) through the glassen windows, (Looking) through the glassen windows: […]

   2012, B. Suchoff, Bela Bartok, Rumanian Folk Music

   Synonyms: glazen

2. Resembling glass; glassy; glazed.

   1640 (first published), Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a friend to persuade him to join the wars And pursues the dice with glassen eyes.

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   Abreast of the players, he jumped down, seized one of the taws - it was a glassen alley - knuckled down, fired kibby at the clayers in the ring, and was back in his seat before you could cry "Jack Robinson".

   2004, John Coulson Tregarthen, John Penrose: A Romance of the Land's End

present singular third person glassens · participle present glassening · participle past glassened · past glassened

1. transitiveTo coat or cover (e.g. pottery, etc.) with glaze; make glassy.

   Synonyms: glaze