flint-glassn.
1. A pure lustrous glass, now made from a composition of lead oxide, sand, and alkali; originally made with ground flint or pebble as the siliceous ingredient.
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mirror glass1440
Venice glass1527
green glass1559
bubble glass1591
hard glass1597
window glass1606
bottle glass1626
looking-glass plate1665
opal glass1668
flint-glass1683
broad-glass1686
jealous glass1703
plate glass1728
Newcastle glass1734
flint1755
German sheet glass1777
Réaumur's porcelain1777
cut glass1800
Vauxhall1830
muslin glass1837
Venetian glass1845
latticinio1855
quartz glass1861
muff glass1865
thallium glass1868
St. Gobain glass1870
frost blue1873
crackle-glass1875
opaline1875
crackle-ware1881
amberina1883
opal1885
Jena1892
Holophane1893
roughcast1893
soda glass1897
opalite1899
milchglas1907
pâte de verre1907
Pyrex1915
silica glass1916
soda-lime glass1917
Vita-glass1925
peach-blow1930
borosilicate glass1933
Vitrolite1937
twin plate1939
sintered glass1940
gold-film1954
Plyglass1956
pyroceram1957
float glass1959
solar glass1977
1683 Worlidge in Houghton Lett. II. 42 A Pipe made of Chrystal, or Flint-Glass.
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. iv. 171 Flint Glass..is of the same general kind with that which in other places is called crystal glass.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 138 The manufacture of flint glass was first begun in England in the year 1557.
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 19 A lens of crown-glass will have a longer focus than a similar one of flint-glass.
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glass?c1225
crystal glass1567
water glass1590
crystal1630
vitrum1657
flint-glass1675
sheet glass1805
1675 Sloane MSS. 857. 18 Sept. Permission to Ravenscroft to export flint glasses..to Ireland.
1708 Brit. Apollo 25–27 Aug. Two Gentlemen sitting in a Tavern..heard..a flint Glass Crack.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 280 A glass~house for making flint-glasses.
3. attributive.
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1683 Worlidge in Houghton Lett. I. 166 A Syphon..made of a Crystal or Flint-glass Pipe.
1784 Watt in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 343 A flint-glass retort.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics ix. 82 The focal length..of the concave flint-glass lens.
1871 tr. H. Schellen Spectrum Anal. xix. 67 The flint-glass prism is replaced by one of bisulphide of carbon.
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