Glass /(glȧs)/

1. A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
2. Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. (Chem.)
3. Anything made of glass.

   She would not live The running of one glass.

4. A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

   Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands.

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.

   Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

2. To case in glass. [R.]
3. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
4. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.