glassen
adj/ˈɡlɑːsən/
Etymology
From Middle English glassen, glasen, from Old English glæsen (“made of glass”), from Proto-West Germanic *glasīn (“made of glass; glazen”). Equivalent to glass + -en (adjective suffix). Doublet of glazen.
- inherited from glassen
Definitions
Made of or consisting of glass.
- From the castle calls Ileana, Refrain (Looking) through the glassen windows, (Looking) through the glassen windows: […]
- But I had a glassen vessel, of a narrow neck, weighing 1354 grains: […]
Resembling glass
Resembling glass; glassy; glazed.
- 1640 (first published), Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a friend to persuade him to join the wars And pursues the dice with glassen eyes.
- Abreast of the players, he jumped down, seized one of the taws - it was a glassen alley - knuckled down, fired kibby at the clayers in the ring, and was back in his seat before you could cry "Jack Robinson".
To coat or cover (e.g. pottery, etc.) with glaze
To coat or cover (e.g. pottery, etc.) with glaze; make glassy.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for glassen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA