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Glassen

//ˈɡlɑːsən// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Made of or consisting of glass.
"From the castle calls Ileana, Refrain (Looking) through the glassen windows, (Looking) through the glassen windows: […]"
2
Resembling glass; glassy; glazed.
"1640 (first published), Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a friend to persuade him to join the wars And pursues the dice with glassen eyes."

Verb

1
To coat or cover (e.g. pottery, etc.) with glaze; make glassy. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English glassen, glasen, from Old English glæsen (“made of glass”), from Proto-West Germanic *glasīn (“made of glass; glazen”). Equivalent to glass + -en (adjective suffix). Doublet of glazen.

Etymology 2

From glass + -en (verbal suffix).

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