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▪ I. ˈglassen, ˈglazen, a. Obs. exc. dial. and arch. Forms: α. 1 glæsen, 2 glesen, 4–7 glasen, 4–6 glasyn(e, (4 glasun, 6 glasin(g, glason), 7– glazen. β. 5–6 glassin, (6 -yn), 6–7, 9 dial. glassen. [OE. glæsen, f. glæs glass n.1 + -en; OHG. had glesîn:—*glasîno-, but the absence of umlaut in the OE. word shows that it was a new formation or refashioned after the n. The β-forms represent a second new formation in the 15th c.] 1. Made of glass. Also fig. α971Blickl. Hom. 209 Þonne wæs onᵹean ðyssum wæter⁓scipe glæsen fæt on seolfrenre racenteaᵹe ahangen. c1175Lamb. Hom. 83 Þe sunne scineð þurh þe glesne ehþurl. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 171 Thei gyuen hym agayne a glasen houve. 1382Wyclif Rev. xv. 2, I siȝe as a glasen se mengid with fijr. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 190 In a glasen vessel. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Ep. in Ashm. (1652) 115 A little glasen Toune. 16..Sempill Picktooth for Pope in Harp of Renfrewsh. Ser. ii. (1873) 17 Such glazen arguments will bide no hammer. 1641French Distill. v. (1651) 119 Closed up..in a glazen womb sealed with Hermes seales. 1765J. Brown Chr. Jrnl. (1814) 207 To prepare the glazen sea of his righteousness. β1516Pilton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 73 Item for y⊇ mendyng off y⊇ glassyn wyndowys..ijs. vid. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 20 Some use..glassen limbeckes. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 270 Who for a recompence gaue them kniues and glassen Beades. 1642Remonstr. Ch. Irel. 49 The King..rode disguised, and had glassen eyes, because he would not be knowne. 1662J. Chandler tr. Van Helmont's Oriat. 75 Fill a glassen and great Bottle with pieces of Ice. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 185 We have also an Experiment of Glassen-Hives, published by Mr. Hartlib in his Common-wealth of Bees. 1866Wh. Stokes in Voy. Bran (1895) 220 A glassen veil between them. Ibid. 221 The City, and seven glassen walls around it. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Glassen. †b. Sc. glassen-work: window-glazing. Also glassen-, glazen-wright, a glazier. Obs.
[1379Nottingham Bor. Rec. I. 204 John Glasenwryghte.] 1473in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 46 To ane glasyn wricht in the Abbay, for a wyndow to the Qwenis chalmire. 1497Ibid. 364 In payment of the glassin werk. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxiii. 15 Glasing wrichtis, goldsmythis, and lapidaris. 1577in Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) 67 George Elphinstoun glasin-wricht, burges of Glasgow. 1641Sc. Acts Chas. I (1817) V. 540/2 Cowperis, glassinwrichtis. 2. Resembling glass. Of eyes: Glassy, glazed. αc1380Wyclif Last Age Ch. p. xxxv, So oure Lord þe Fadir of heuene hadde Mankynde in helle, þat was glasyne, þat is to seye, britil as glas. 1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 100 Thou approvest ȝour capped maistres with a glasen glose. 1590P. Burrough Meth. Phisick 241 Glasen fleume is the coldest of all other fleumes [cf. glassy 1]. 1605B. Jonson Volpone v. i, Old glazen eyes, He hath not reach'd his despair yet. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 371 Gray Horses, with glasen eyes, which are most swift, and which dare only meet Lions, when other Horses dare not abide the sight of Lions. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 14 They [bees] take such pains at the door in rubbing and wiping their glazen eyes, that they might the better discern their way forth and back. 1848J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inf. xxxiii, That thou more willingly mayest rid the glazen tears from off my face. βa1637B. Jonson Underwoods xxxii. Ep. to Friend 135 [The palsied gamester] pursues The Dice with glassen eyes. ▪ II. † ˈglassen, ˈglazen, v. Obs. [Extension of glass v., glaze v.1; cf. -en5.] 1. trans. To fit with glass, to glaze.
1566Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 171 The churche was glassened. 1664in Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. xv. (1876) 513 [In 1664 the council of Jedburgh employ a glazier for] ‘glassening’ [the school windows]. 2. = glaze v.1 2.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 648 Oyl..is..imposed in a glass, or earthen vessel well glazened. 1709T. Robinson Nat. Hist. Westmoreld. 76 Wadd or Black-Lead..it's now made use of to glazen and harden Crucibles. 1828Craven Gloss., Glazzen, to glaze. 1849Teesdale Gloss., Glazen, to glaze. 1877in N.W. Linc. Gloss. Hence ˈglassened, ˈglazened ppl. a. Also ˈglassener, ˈglaz(e)ner, a glazier. Obs. exc. dial.
1585Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 20 Given to William Shadforth for servinge the glasner that day which he mended the windowes. 1593Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees) 40 Foure faire coulered and sumptuous glasened wyndowes. 1596Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 271 Given to the glaysner for repairing of the glas windowes. 1678Anct. Trades decayed 16 Instead of Perpetuana or a Shalloon to Lyne Mens Coats with, is used sometimes a Glazened Calico. 1728J. Hobson Diary 13 Aug. (Surtees 1877) 281 John Guest, glazener, of Barnsly. 1825Scott Talism. xviii, It seemed as if a tear..were gathering in his dry and glazened eye. 1883Almondbury Gloss., Glassener (pronounced glazzener), a glazier. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Glazener, a glazier. ▪ III. glassen var. glossan, coal-fish. |