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Word Meanings - QUICKSILVERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

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  • LOOKDOWN
    See
  • 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.
  • LOOK
    1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
  • 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.
  • GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
    One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
  • LOOKOUT
    1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • LOOKING-GLASS
    A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
  • GLASSHOUSE
    A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
  • LOOKER
    One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
  • 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
  • ILL-LOOKING
    Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
  • FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
    See FLUCAN
  • SPYGLASS
    A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
  • FLOOKY
    Fluky.
  • DOWNLOOKED
    Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
  • GOOD-LOOKING
    Handsome.
  • SANDGLASS
    An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
  • WATER GLASS
    See GLASS
  • 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.
  • ON-LOOKING
    Looking on or forward.

 

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