Word Meanings - UNGLAZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.

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• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• 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.
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• 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.
• GLAZY
  Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
• GLASS-SNAIL
  A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• GLAZE
  Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes. 3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven. (more info) 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v.
• WINDOW
  The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King. French window , a casement window in two folds,
• 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.
• WINDOWY
  Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Donne.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
• 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.
• 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.