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Pontee :: Pontee (n.) An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot glass; -- called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet..

Eyepiece :: Eyepiece (n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed..

Dynactinometer :: Dynactinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses..

Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts..

Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass..

Pince-nez :: Pince-nez (n.) Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.

Rabbet :: Rabbet (n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate..

Strata :: Strass (n.) A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass..

Grozing Iron :: Grozing iron () A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass..

Diamagnetic :: Diamagnetic (n.) Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet..

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens..

Glass-faced :: Glass-faced (a.) Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.

Compressor :: Compressor (n.) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium.

Cuvette :: Cuvette (n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table..

Carinaria :: Carinaria (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills..

Anorthite :: Anorthite (n.) A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar..

Vitrifacture :: Vitrifacture (n.) The manufacture of glass and glassware.

Bumbelo :: Bumbelo (n.) A glass used in subliming camphor.

Goggle :: Goggle (v. i.) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc..

Foliate :: Foliate (v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass..

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