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Glassy

adjective

Resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness. "The pavement was...glassy with water"

(used of eyes) lacking liveliness. Synonym: glazed. "A glassy stare" , "His eyes were glazed over with boredom"

(of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it. Synonyms: vitreous, vitrified. "Glassy porcelain" , "Hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"

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"Glassy" Quotes from Famous Books

... bubble drifted away from the shore, On the glassy billows borne, All cried: "Why, where is Mehitable Moore? I saw her ...

— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce

... for church, but toward the end of the Psalms Donovan felt a touch on his arm. He turned to Erica; she was a white as death, and with a strange, glassy look in her eyes. ...

— We Two • Edna Lyall

... formally. Major Churchill stood for a moment looking straight before him with a somewhat glassy stare, then, "Good-night, Mr. Rand," he said, in a voice like a wind through November reeds, made a bow as low and as studied as that with which he had once honoured Rand in the Fontenoy drawing-room, turned with martial precision, ...

— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... of an athletic man. His eyes, deep-sunken in their orbits, were nearly as glassy as those of a corpse; his poor attire hung loosely on his square shoulders. His matted beard rendered his sickly, greenish countenance yet more wan and livid. He crawled about the deck alone—his wife and five children, they for ...

— The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage

... I saw evident symptoms of the coming of another roasting day. They were busy at the boats as soon as they could see to work, whilst Mr. Smith and myself ascended the cliffs to get a view towards the main. When I looked down upon the calm and glassy sea I could scarcely believe it was the same element which within so short a period had worked us such serious damage. To the north-east we could see the lofty white sandhills in Lyell's Range; to the eastward nothing was visible; yet this was the point to which I had determined to steer, ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) • George Grey

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