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Polyneme :: Polyneme (n.) Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemidae. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish..

Court-plaster :: Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin..

Wineglassful :: Wineglassful () As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls..

Monocle :: Monocle (n.) An eyeglass for one eye.

Sandemanian :: Sandemanian (n.) A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite..

Vitrify :: Vitrify (v. t.) To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion..

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion..

Go :: Go (n.) A glass of spirits.

Mat :: Mat (n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype..

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..

Flatting :: Flatting (n.) The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out..

Shank :: Shank (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round..

Belonite :: Belonite (n.) Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

"""opalotype " :: Opalotype (n.) A picture taken on milky glass..

Hotbed :: Hotbed (n.) A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics..

Hygroscopic :: Hygroscopic (a.) Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc..

Lorgnette :: Lorgnette (n.) elaborate double eyeglasses.

Smooth :: Smooth (superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain..

Bottle Green :: Bottle green () A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass..

Psyche :: Psyche (n.) A cheval glass.

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