[glas, glahs] 
| 1. | a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles. |
| 2. | any artificial or natural substance having similar properties and composition, as fused borax, obsidian, or the like. |
| 3. | something made of such a substance, as a windowpane. |
| 4. | a tumbler or other comparatively tall, handleless drinking container. |
| 5. | glasses, Also called eyeglasses. a device to compensate for defective vision or to protect the eyes from light, dust, and the like, consisting usually of two glass or plastic lenses set in a frame that includes a nosepiece for resting on the bridge of the nose and two sidepieces extending over or around the ears (usually used with pair of). Compare goggle (def. 1), pince-nez, spectacle (def. 3). |
| 6. | a mirror. |
| 7. | things made of glass, collectively; glassware: They used to collect old glass. |
| 8. | a glassful. |
| 9. | a lens, esp. one used as a magnifying glass. |
| 10. | a spyglass. |
| 11. | made of glass: a glass tray. |
| 12. | furnished or fitted with panes of glass; glazed. |
| 13. | to fit with panes of glass. |
| 14. | cover with or encase in glass. |
| 15. | to coat or cover with fiberglass: to glass the hull of a boat. |
| 16. | to scan with a spyglass or other optical instrument. |
| 17. | to reflect: Trees glassed themselves in the lake. |
[glas, glahs] | 1. | Carter, 1858–1946, U.S. statesman. |
| 2. | Philip, born 1937, U.S. composer. |
| glass (glās) n.
v. tr.
[Middle English glas, from Old English glæs; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| Glass (glās) American composer whose minimalist style of music contains elements of both rock and Indian music. His works include the opera Einstein on the Beach (1975). |
glass (glās)
n.
Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.
Something usually made of glass, such as a window, mirror, drinking vessel.
glasses A pair of lenses mounted in a light frame, used to correct faulty vision or protect the eyes. Also called spectacles.
A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.
GLASS
General LAnguage for System Semantics.
An Esprit project at the University of Nijmegen.
(ftp://phoibos.cs.kun.nl/pub/GLASS).
(1995-01-25)
glass
(IBM) silicon.
[The Jargon File]
Glass
was known to the Egyptians at a very early period of their national history, at least B.C. 1500. Various articles both useful and ornamental were made of it, as bottles, vases, etc. A glass bottle with the name of Sargon on it was found among the ruins of the north-west palace of Nimroud. The Hebrew word _zekukith_ (Job 28:17), rendered in the Authorized Version "crystal," is rightly rendered in the Revised Version "glass." This is the only allusion to glass found in the Old Testament. It is referred to in the New Testament in Rev. 4:6; 15:2; 21:18, 21. In Job 37:18, the word rendered "looking-glass" is in the Revised Version properly rendered "mirror," formed, i.e., of some metal. (Comp. Ex. 38:8: "looking-glasses" are brazen mirrors, R.V.). A mirror is referred to also in James 1:23.
glass
In addition to the idioms beginning with glass, also see people who live in glass houses.