Vitreous

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass; glassy.
  • adjective. Obtained or made from glass.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the vitreous humor.
  • noun. The vitreous humor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of, pertaining to, or obtained from glass; resembling glass.
  • Consisting of glass: as, a vitreous substance.
  • Resembling glass in some respects; glassy: thus, an object may be vitreous in its hardness, in its gloss, in its structure, etc.
  • noun. The vitreous body of the eye.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass.
  • adjective. the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye.
  • adjective. the kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; -- opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity.
  • adjective. See the Note under Eye.
  • adjective. any one of numerous species of siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See Venus's basket, under Venus.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of, or resembling glass; glassy
  • adjective. Of, or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye
  • adjective. having a shiny nonporous surface
  • adjective. Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal
  • adjective. positive (of electric charge)
  • noun. The vitreous humor.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye
  • adjective. (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it
  • adjective. relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass
  • Word Usage
    "If it attracts it, it is certainly of the kind of electricity which I call vitreous; if, on the contrary, it repels it, it is of the same kind of electricity with the silk -- that is, of the resinous."
    Equivalent
    glazed  shiny  
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    Words with the same meaning
    glass  glassy