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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

... Baltic is as smooth as a carpet, and one cannot get within a mile and a half of anything with eyes in its head without being put down. There was one time when E9, evidently on information received, took up "a certain position" and reported the sea "glassy." She had to suffer in silence, while three heavily laden German ships went by; for an attack would have given away her position. Her reward came next day, when she sighted (the words run like Marryat's) "enemy squadron coming up fast from eastward, proceeding inshore of us." They were two heavy ...

— Sea Warfare • Rudyard Kipling

... of the hand began to fail, and the writing was terminated by mere scrawls. The sleeper's eyes were now open, but not wide. They had a strange, glassy look in them, nor did she show any consciousness of Tims's presence. She dropped the pen, folded the paper in the same slow and tentative manner in which she had written upon it, and placed it in the directed envelope lying there. Then her face ...

— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods

... saddled mule, Together with your cask of malvoisie, So far exceed all my necessity That Michael and not I my debt must rule, In such a glassy calm the breezes fool My sinking sails, so that amid the sea My bark hath missed her way, and seems to be A wisp of straw whirled on a weltering pool. To yield thee gift for gift and grace for grace, For food and ...

— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella

... ship made an opaque belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea. But I saw at once something elongated and pale floating very close to the ladder. Before I could form a guess a faint flash of phosphorescent light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body ...

— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad

... the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. ...

— The Children's Own Longfellow • Henry W. Longfellow

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