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Ground glass   /graʊnd glæs/   Listen
Ground glass

noun
1.
Glass that diffuses light due to a rough surface produced by abrasion or etching.
2.
Particulate glass made by grinding and used as an abrasive.






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"Ground glass" Quotes from Famous Books



... therefore, on the eve of his return to splendour, and his companion in captivity was Dumnoff the mujik. They found themselves in a well-ventilated room, having high grated windows, through which the stars were visible, and dimly lighted by a small gas flame which burned in a lantern of white ground glass. The place was abundantly, if not luxuriously, furnished with flat wooden pallets, each having at the head a slanting piece of board supposed to do duty for a pillow. Outside the open door a policeman paced ...
— A Cigarette-Maker's Romance • F. Marion Crawford

... the other two in a little piece of Boule furniture which adorned the space between the windows, and on which were some Chinese lamps. Here slumbered lamp-globes of ground glass, lamp-shades, cut-glass goblets ornamented with gilt bronze, a match-stand in painted porcelain flanked by a child sleeping against a drum beside a dog, books whose bindings were detached, tattered musical scores, ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France

... "JINGLE; jingle; jingle, jing, jing." Then a wait, then the sound of footsteps approaching the other side of the door. Then a momentary glimpse of a reconnoitering eye behind one of the transparent urns engraved in the ground glass pane. Then a rattle of bolt and latch and the ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln



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