glassful
English
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: glass‧ful
Etymology 1
From Middle English glas fulle, glasseful; equivalent to glass + -ful.
Noun
glassful (plural glassfuls or glassesful)
- The amount that a glass will hold.
Translations
amount that a glass will hold
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Etymology 2
Adjective
glassful (comparative more glassful, superlative most glassful)
- (obsolete) glassy; shining like glass.
- 1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn
- Minerva's glassful shield.
- 1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glassful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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