Word Meanings - LOOKING-GLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.

• Placodermi
  An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.
• Reflection
  The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.
• Backslide
  To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
• GLASSGAZING
  Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. [Poetic] Shak.
• Backwash
  To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
• Glasshouse
  A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
• Placebo
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• Place-proud
  Proud of rank or office.
• Back door
  A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
• Placoganoid
  Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
• Backpiece
  Alt. of Backplate
• Reflective
  Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
• Backslider
  One who backslides.
• GLASSMAKERGLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• Backwater
  Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
• Glassily
  So as to resemble glass.
• Mirrored
  of Mirror
• Placeful
  In the appointed place.

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