dictionary definitions for "glassy"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  glassy
      adj 1: resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness;
             "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement
             was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather
      2: used of eyes lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy
         stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" [syn:
         glazed]
      3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by
         fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery";
         "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing
         fixtures" [syn: vitreous, vitrified]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glassy \Glass"y\, a.
     1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. --Bacon.
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     2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness,
        brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a
        glassy surface; the glassy deep.
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     3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the
        eyes. "In his glassy eye." --Byron.
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     Glassy feldspar (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
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