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Definition of Glass over
1. Verb. Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance. "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"
Literary usage of Glass over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1828)
"There was a very superb plate glass over the mantle-piece in the play-room of
the hell, in which me gallant captain was very fond of admiring himself, ..."
2. The Camera and the Pencil by Marcus Aurelius Root (1864)
"... made spherical by pressing it over a convex glass paperweight, or other oval
surface, and cased with a convex glass over the impression. ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"... glass over reflection by metal is the smaller quantity of light that it absorbs.
It has been ascertained that there is a gain oE nearly one-fourth ..."
4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1854)
"I may here observe that a parallel plate of glass over an object, mounted dry,
has no effect in reducing the aperture, for the rays, after being deflected ..."
5. Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of by Joseph Paxton (1868)
"... if placed in a gentle bottom heat, with a glass over them, they will root very
readily, but before the cuttings ¡ire plant«! in the soil, they should be ..."
6. A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health by Thomas Stevenson, Shirley Forster Murphy (1898)
"This is fastened by sterile oil, wax, paraffin, or shellac on an object-glass
over a shallow pit cut out of it, ie Koch's hollow glass slide, ..."
7. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"... glass over reflection by metal is the smaller quantity of light that it absorbs.
It has been ascertained that there is a gain of nearly one-fourth ..."
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