noun
An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
This tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
Metal glasses, unlike those based on silica, are electrically conductive, which can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the application.
A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
Would you like a glass of wine?
Fill my glass with milk, please.
The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
Glassware.
We collected art glass.
verb
To fit with glass; to glaze.
To enclose in glass.
As Iewels in Christall for some Prince to buy. / Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,
And to ſatisfie my ſelf, that the diverſity came not from the Paper, vvhich one might ſuſpect capable of imbibing the Liquor, and altering the Colour, I made the Tryal upon a flat piece of purely VVhite Glaſs'd Earth, […]
Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
JUDD. Any trouble last night? LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.
I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.
To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
“The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
name
A surname.