▪ 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.
| α 971 Blickl. Hom. 209 Þonne wæs onᵹean ðyssum wæter⁓scipe glæsen fæt on seolfrenre racenteaᵹe ahangen. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Þe sunne scineð þurh þe glesne ehþurl. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 171 Thei gyuen hym agayne a glasen houve. 1382 Wyclif Rev. xv. 2, I siȝe as a glasen se mengid with fijr. c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 190 In a glasen vessel. 1471 Ripley 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. 1641 French Distill. v. (1651) 119 Closed up..in a glazen womb sealed with Hermes seales. 1765 J. Brown Chr. Jrnl. (1814) 207 To prepare the glazen sea of his righteousness. |
| β 1516 Pilton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 73 Item for y⊇ mendyng off y⊇ glassyn wyndowys..ijs. vi{supd}. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 20 Some use..glassen limbeckes. 1600 Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 270 Who for a recompence gaue them kniues and glassen Beades. 1642 Remonstr. Ch. Irel. 49 The King..rode disguised, and had glassen eyes, because he would not be knowne. 1662 J. Chandler tr. Van Helmont's Oriat. 75 Fill a glassen and great Bottle with pieces of Ice. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 185 We have also an Experiment of Glassen-Hives, published by Mr. Hartlib in his Common-wealth of Bees. 1866 Wh. Stokes in Voy. Bran (1895) 220 A glassen veil between them. Ibid. 221 The City, and seven glassen walls around it. 1886 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Glassen. |
† b. Sc. glassen-work: window-glazing. Also glassen-, glazen-wright, a glazier. Obs.
| [1379 Nottingham Bor. Rec. I. 204 John Glasenwryghte.] 1473 in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 46 To ane glasyn wricht in the Abbay, for a wyndow to the Qwenis chalmire. 1497 Ibid. 364 In payment of the glassin werk. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxiii. 15 Glasing wrichtis, goldsmythis, and lapidaris. 1577 in Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) 67 George Elphinstoun glasin-wricht, burges of Glasgow. 1641 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1817) V. 540/2 Cowperis, glassinwrichtis. |
2. Resembling glass. Of eyes: Glassy, glazed.
| α c 1380 Wyclif 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. 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 100 Thou approvest ȝour capped maistres with a glasen glose. 1590 P. Burrough Meth. Phisick 241 Glasen fleume is the coldest of all other fleumes [cf. glassy 1]. 1605 B. Jonson Volpone v. i, Old glazen eyes, He hath not reach'd his despair yet. 1607 Topsell 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. 1609 C. 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. 1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inf. xxxiii, That thou more willingly mayest rid the glazen tears from off my face. |
| β a 1637 B. 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.
| 1566 Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 171 The churche was glassened. 1664 in 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.
| 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 648 Oyl..is..imposed in a glass, or earthen vessel well glazened. 1709 T. Robinson Nat. Hist. Westmoreld. 76 Wadd or Black-Lead..it's now made use of to glazen and harden Crucibles. 1828 Craven Gloss., Glazzen, to glaze. 1849 Teesdale Gloss., Glazen, to glaze. 1877 in N.W. Linc. Gloss. |
Hence ˈglassened, ˈglazened ppl. a. Also ˈglassener, ˈglaz(e)ner, a glazier. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1585 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 20 Given to William Shadforth for servinge the glasner that day which he mended the windowes. 1593 Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees) 40 Foure faire coulered and sumptuous glasened wyndowes. 1596 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 271 Given to the glaysner for repairing of the glas windowes. 1678 Anct. Trades decayed 16 Instead of Perpetuana or a Shalloon to Lyne Mens Coats with, is used sometimes a Glazened Calico. 1728 J. Hobson Diary 13 Aug. (Surtees 1877) 281 John Guest, glazener, of Barnsly. 1825 Scott Talism. xviii, It seemed as if a tear..were gathering in his dry and glazened eye. 1883 Almondbury Gloss., Glassener (pronounced glazzener), a glazier. 1888 Sheffield Gloss., Glazener, a glazier. |
▪ III. glassen
var. glossan, coal-fish.