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glassy

[glas-ee, glah-see]

adjective

resembling glass, as in transparency or smoothness.

expressionless; dull: glassy eyes; a glassy stare.

of the nature of glass; vitreous.

noun

Also, glassie. Marbles. a marble used as a shooter.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English glasy. See glass, -y¹

Related forms

glass·i·ly, adverb

glass·i·ness, noun

un·glass·y, adjective

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glassy (ˈɡlɑːsɪ)

—*adj* , glassier, glassiest
1.	resembling glass, esp in smoothness, slipperiness, or transparency
2.	void of expression, life, or warmth: a glassy stare

'glassily

—*adv*

'glassiness

—n

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"We looked down at a glassy glittering icy place many days walking across and very deep, between enormous icy black peaks. All we looked at had a glassy awfulness that hurt into our dying eyes; and as we peered down over the edge of the miniature valley we were stranded in at the top of the mountain peak, we knew we would never leave it. How could we, weak as we were, descend the ghastly precipices of that peak? And so, for the last time with our old eyes, we sat close and looked into each other's faces, until, one after another, our faces shuttered themselves in death, and our bundles of bones settled inside the heaps of our shag-skin coats, so that, as we slid away from that scene, and saw it with eyes we had not known we possessed, all we could see was what looked like a herd of beasts crouched in sleep or in death high up there on a mountaintop."

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