GLASS IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glass in mean? 

• GLASS IN (verb)
  The verb GLASS IN has 1 sense:

1. enclose with glass

  Familiarity information: GLASS IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLASS IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose with glass

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

glass; glass in

Context example:

glass in a porch

Hypernyms (to "glass in" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

A gentleman lounging, full dressed, on a sofa, with an opera-glass in his hand, passed before my view, and also my own figure at full length in a glass.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My hand-mirror had been broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of the glass in my handkerchief.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each of them had a glass in his hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the next instant I perceived that he held a round glass in the front of it, which magnified it in this fashion.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I now propose a toast, as my 'friend and pardner, Sairy Gamp', says. Fun forever, and no grubbing!" cried Jo, rising, glass in hand, as the lemonade went round.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ah! it was a bad day that ever he took a glass in his hand again.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, said he, to settle what remains. Will you be wise? will you be guided? will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand and to go forth from your house without further parley? or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

So I got Sophy to lend me a hand, and we soon shifted their quarters; and now I am quite snug, with my little shaving glass in one corner, and another great thing that I never go near.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her father had his empty glass in his hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A few seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again and put his glass in his pocket.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)