Word Meanings - STEMSTEEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.

• Glassiness
  The quality of being glassy.
• Stem-winder
  A stem-winding watch.
• Stem-winding
  Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.
• Glassite
  A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understand
• Glassologist
  One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
• GLASSCRAB
  The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.
• Glass maker
  Alt. of Glassmaker
• GLASSFACED
  Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.
• Glassmaker
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass.
• GLASSGAZING
  Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. [Poetic] Shak.
• Glass-rope
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• GLASSMAKERGLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.

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