glazier
(ˈgleɪzɪə(r), ˈgleɪʒ(ɪ)ə(r))
Forms: 4–6 glasyer(e, (5 glasyare), 4–7 glasier, (5 glacyer, 6 glasior, glassier, -yer, 7 glaseer), 9 dial. glassiver, 7– glazier.
[f. glass n. + -er1, with assimilation to Rom. words in -ier, q.v.]
† 1. One engaged in the manufacture of glass, a glass-maker. Obs.
| 1385 Grant by R. Suzonne, Bailiff of Atheringlow (MS. in private hands), Feare en le boys auauntdit vn Glashous et le despendre come office de Glasiere apent. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xcix. (1495) 587 Glasse is so plyaunt that it takith anone dyuers and contrary shapis by blast of the Glasier. Ibid. xvii. lxiii. (1495) 639 Beche..is moost nedefull to Glasyers craft for of asshen therof..glas is craftly arayed. 1477 Norton Ord. Alch. vi. in Ashm. (1652) 96 Tincture with anealing of Glasiers. |
2. a. One whose trade it is to glaze windows, etc.
| 1408 Nottingham Rec. II. 56 Hugo Hopwell, de Lenton, glasyer. 1418 in C. Welch Tower Bridge (1894) 72 [A payment for mending broken windows was made in 1418 to Hugh Wyse] Ducheman Glasyere. c 1481 Caxton Dialogues (E.E.T.S.) 34/25 Steven the glasyer. 1487 Churchw. Acc. Wigtoft, Linc. (Nichols 1797) 83 To 2 glasyers for mendyng of divers glasse wyndowes rounde aboute ye chirch. 1540 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 1 To master glasier for glassynge the wyndous in the vestrie. 1563 Shute Archit. A ii b, Caruers, Ioynars, Glassyers, Grauers. 1600 Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) Banes 99 You painters and glasiors. 1666 Pepys Diary 28 Sept., By and by the glazier comes to finish the windows of my house. 1774 Westm. Mag. II. 374 Reputation, like glass, if once broken the pane, No art of the Glazier can heal it again. 1814 Byron Diary 9 Apr., This..diamond..is..hardly fit to stick in a glazier's pencil. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 421 Glaziers value their work by feet, inches, and parts. |
b. In colloq. phrases addressed to a person who is obstructing one's view, etc. (see quots.).
| 1738 Swift Pol. Conversat. i. 13 Lady Smart... You stand in your own Light... Ld. Sparkish. I'm sure he sits in mine: Prythee, Tom, sit a little farther: I believe your Father was no Glasier. 1891 J. M. Dixon Dict. Idiomatic Eng. Phrases 132 Is your father a glazier?—a vulgar expression, signifying, ‘Do you suppose that I can see through you?’ It is used when a person in front of you obstructs your view. 1910 P. W. Joyce English as we speak it in Ireland viii. 113 ‘Your father was a bad glazier’: said to a person who is standing in one's light. |
3. = glazer 2 b.
| In recent Dicts. |
† 4. = glazer 3. Obs.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 91/1 He beareth Argent, A Cutler at his Glassier or Polishing Wheel, polishing a Knife. |
† 5. old slang. pl. The eyes. Obs.
| 1567 Harman Caveat (1869) 82 Glasyers, eyes. 1611 Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle K iij b, The balles of these glasiers of mine (mine eyes). 1641 Brome Joviall Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 389 Toure out with your Glasiers. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 19 Thy Glaziers shine As Glymmar by the Salomon. 1785 in Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue. |
† 6. slang. (See quots. 1676, 1785.) Obs.
| 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 191 The fifth is a Glazier, who when he creeps in: To pinch all the Lurry, he thinks it no sin. 1676 Warn. Housekeepers 4 Glasiers, thieves who enter houses, thro' windows, first remouing a pane of glass. a 1700 in B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew. 1785 Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Glazier, one who breaks windows and shew glasses to steal goods exposed for sale. |