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ground glass

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ground glass
n.
1. Glass that has been ground or etched to create a roughened nontransparent surface.
2. Glass that has been ground into fine particles, as for use as an abrasive.
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Noun1.ground glass - glass that diffuses light due to a rough surface produced by abrasion or etching
glass - a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
2.ground glass - particulate glass made by grinding and used as an abrasive
glass - a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
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Beyond these things, there is no furniture, if we except an Argand lamp, with a plain crimson-tinted ground glass shade, which depends from He lofty vaulted ceiling by a single slender gold chain, and throws a tranquil but magical radiance over all.
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So did I and perceived a little creature which looked as if it were made of ground glass flowing in a sticky way across the lighted circle.
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The suffrage office was at the top of one of the large Russell Square houses, which had once been lived in by a great city merchant and his family, and was now let out in slices to a number of societies which displayed assorted initials upon doors of ground glass, and kept, each of them, a typewriter which clicked busily all day long.
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