Dictionary entry

Glass (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Glass, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Glassed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Glassing.] 1. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; — used reflexively.

Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror. Motley.

Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests. Byron.

2. To case in glass. Shak.

3. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. Boyle.

4. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.