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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Glassy \Glass"y\, adjective
1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. --Bacon.
2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. ''In his glassy eye.'' --Byron.
{Glassy feldspar} (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
glassy
adjective
1: resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather
2: used of eyes lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" [syn: {glazed}]
3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: {vitreous}, {vitrified}] [also: {glassiest}, {glassier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "glassy": blank, buffed, burnished, clear as glass, cold, dazed, deadpan, dull, empty, expressionless, finished, fishy, fixed, furbished, glace, glass, glasslike, glazed, gleaming, glossy, hyalescent, hyaline, hypnotic, icy, impassive, inexpressive, lacquered, lifeless, lustrous, poker-faced, polished, rubbed, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, slippery, smarmy, smooth, staring, unexpressive, vacant, vacuous, varnished, velvety, vitreous, vitriform, void, wooden
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