Word Meanings - GLASS-FACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.
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- FACETIAE
Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits. - FACIES
The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment. (more info) 1. The anterior part of the head; the face. - FACILITATION
The act of facilitating or making easy. - FACIEND
The multiplicand. See Facient, - FACUND
Eloquent. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - GLASSEN
Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson. - FACTIOUS
1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, - FACT
1. A doing, making, or preparing. A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson. 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate - FACINOROUS
Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n. - GLASSINESS
The quality of being glassy. - GLASSWORT
A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap. - GLASS-ROPE
A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together. - GLASSILY
So as to resemble glass. - FACTITIVE
Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. Sometimes the idea of activity in a - FACTORIZE
To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the - REFLECTOR
1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle. Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. A reflecting telescope. A device for reflecting sound. - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n. - FACE
Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. Chaucer. 9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations. - CREAM-FACED
White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak. - BAREFACEDNESS
The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - SUPERREFLECTION
The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon. - CRABFACED
Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl. - TEMPOROFACIAL
Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face. - OLFACTOR
A smelling organ; a nose. - MULTIFACED
Having many faces. - CALEFACTOR
A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - ABORTIFACIENT
Producing miscarriage. -- n. - FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc. - PALEFACE
A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.