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The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkuhn.
Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.
See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.
See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
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The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.
v. t.
A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
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One whose business is to set glass.
v. i.
To become glazed of glassy.
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One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.
v. t.
To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.
v. t.
To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.
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The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.
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Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
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Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.
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A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.
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The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.
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A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.
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