Word Meanings - GLASS-GAZING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. Shak.

Related words: (words related to GLASS-GAZING)

• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• 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.
• VIEW
  1. To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore. O, let me view his visage, being dead. Shak. Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• GLASS-SPONGE
  A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
• GLASS-SNAIL
  A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
• VIEWLESS
  Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen. "Viewless winds." Shak. Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air. Pope.
• GLASSITE
  A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the
• GLASS-GAZING
  Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. Shak.
• GLASSWORK
  Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• GLASS
  1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively. Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. Motley. Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. Byron. 2. To case in glass. Shak. 3. To cover or furnish with glass;
• MIRRORSCOPE
  See BELOW
• GLASSHOUSE
  A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
• VIEWINESS
  The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
• VIEWLY; VIEWSOME
  Pleasing to the sight; sightly.
• GLASS-FACED
  Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.
• SELF-VIEW
  A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• SUPERFINICAL
  Extremely finical.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• SANDGLASS
  An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• WATER GLASS
  See GLASS
• WINEGLASSFUL
  As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
• UNDERVIEWER
  See UNDERLOOKER
• MUSCOVY GLASS
  Mica; muscovite. See Mica.
• PURVIEW
  The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon. 2. Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. In determining the extent of information required