glassing

Verb

glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)

1. (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
2. (transitive) To enclose in glass.
   • As Iewels in Christall for some Prince to buy. / Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (UK, colloquial, transitive) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
   • JUDD. Any trouble last night?
     LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19
4. (transitive) To bombard an area (most often a planet) with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
   • “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.2003, Eric Nylund, Halo: First Strike, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 155
5. (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
   • Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.2000, Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing, page 95
6. (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

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