Word Meanings - PRESAGEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
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- 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. - OMINOUS
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. - 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. - PRESAGEFUL
Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson. - GLASS-SNAIL
A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina. - 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. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - GLASSHOUSE
A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware. - GLASS-FACED
Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak. - GLASSY
1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon. 2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep. 3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; - GLASS
Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. 3. Anything made of glass. Especially: A looking-glass; a mirror. A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and - GLASSFUL
The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold. - GLASSEYE
A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike. - MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
Having many names or terms. - SPYGLASS
A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects. - BINOMINOUS
Binominal. - 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
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Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper. - WINEGLASSFUL
As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls. - MUSCOVY GLASS
Mica; muscovite. See Mica. - LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
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