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adjective

Vitreous adj.

Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.

Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.

Vitreous body (Anat.), the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye.

Vitreous electricity (Elec.), the kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity.

Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See the Note under Eye.

Vitreous sponge (Zool.), any one of numerous species of siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See Venus's basket, under Venus.

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Etymology of 'Vitreous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vitreous" Quotes from Famous Books

... is a delicate membrane, upon the surface of which the images of external objects are received. Its outer surface is in contact with the choroid; its inner, with the vitreous (glass) body. Behind it is continuous with the optic nerve; it gradually diminishes in thickness from behind forward. The retina is soft, semi-transparent and of a purple tint in the fresh state. Exactly in the centre of the posterior part of the retina corresponding to the axis ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... out of its place. He speaks without stopping to take breath, with ease, with point, with elegance, and without "spinning the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." He may be said to weave words into any shapes he pleases for use or ornament, as the glass-blower moulds the vitreous fluid with his breath; and his sentences shine like glass from their polished smoothness, and are equally transparent. His style of eloquence, indeed, is remarkable for neatness, for correctness, and epigrammatic point; and he has ...

— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt

... plans of action in his mind before reaching the vitreous substratum of the generous high-ball. His first indignant impulse was to give up the ...

— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

... crystalline rock of which the volcano is formed, the height of the point where the eruption occurs, whether at the foot of the mountain or in the neighborhood of the crater, and the condition of temperature of the interior. Vitreous volcanic formations, obsidian, pearl-stone, and pumice, are entirely wanting in some volcanoes, while in the case of others they only proceed from the crater, or, at any rate, from very considerable heights. These important and involved relations can only be explained by very accurate ...

— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

... turned his strange dark eyes upon his questioner. They were vitreous, with a misty dry shininess, such as Smith had never seen in a human head before. As he gazed into them he saw some strong emotion gather in their depths, which rose and deepened until it broke into a look of something akin both ...

— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

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