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Methinks I am partaker of thy paHlon, 
And in thy cafe do glafs mine own debility. Sidney, 
To cafe in glafs : 
Methoiight all his fenfes were lockt in his eye, 
As jewels in cryftal for foine prince to buy \ 
Who tend’ring their own worth, from whence they were 
glafst, 
Did point out to buy them, along as you part. Shakefp. 
To cover with glafs ; to glaze.—I have obferved little 
grains of filver to lie liid in the fmall cavities, perhaps 
glajfed over by a vitrifying heat, in crucibles wherein 
lilver has been long kept in fufion. Eojk. 
GLASS'-FURNACE, A furnace in which glafs is 
made by liquefatlion.—If our dreamer pleafes to try 
whether the glowing heat of a glafi-furnace be barely a 
wandering imagination in a drowl'y man’s fancy, by put¬ 
ting his hand into it, he may perhaps be awakened into 
a certainty that it is fomething more than bare imagina¬ 
tion. Locke. 
GLASS-GAZING, adj. Finical ; often contemplat¬ 
ing- himfelf in a mirror.—A whorfon, glafs-gazing, fini- 
cal, rogue. Shakefpeare. 
GLASS'-GRINDER, f. One whofe trade is to polifli 
and grind glafs.—The glafs-grinders complain of the 
trouble they meet witli. Boyle. 
GLASS'-HOUSE, J. A houfe where glafs is manu- 
failured.—I remember to have met with an old Roman 
mofaic, compofed of little pieces of clay half vitrified, 
and prepared at the glafs-houfes. Addifon. 
GLASS-MAN,y. One wlio fells glafs.—The profit 
of glaffes confills only in a fmall prefent made by the 
glafs-man. Swift. 
GLASS-MET'AL, f. Glafs in fufion.—Let proof be 
made of the incorporating of copper or brafs with glaf$- 
metal. Bacon. 
GLA.SS-WORK, f. Manufadory of glafs.—The 
cryflalline Venice glafs is a mixture, in equal portions, 
of flones brought from Pavia, and the afhes of a weed 
called kali, gathered in a defert between Alexandria 
and Rofetta ; -by the Egyptians ufed firlt for fuel, and 
then they crufh the afhes into lumps like a flone, and 
fo fell them to the Venetians for their ^/ys-wor/ts. Bacon. 
GLASS'CARRICK POINT, a cape on the eaflern 
coafl of Ireland, in the county of Wexford. Lat, 
52. 35. N. Ion. 6. 12. W. Greenwich. 
GLASSHUT'TEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, near which is a filver mine : three 
miles from Drefden. 
GLAS'SIUS (Solomon), a learned German Lutheran 
divine, born in 1593. His academic education he re¬ 
ceived at the univerfity of Jena, where he was admitted to 
the degree of dotfor of divinity, and for fome time 
filled the profefibr’s chair in that faculty, with dillin- 
guiflied reputation. He was afterwards appointed fu- 
perintendant-general of the churches and fchools in the 
duchy of Saxc-Gotha, and is highly praifed for his pru¬ 
dence, equity, and impartiality. He died at Gotha in 
1656, at fixty-three years of age. He was the author 
of Philologia Sacra, 1623, 4to. which Mofneim pronounces 
an inefliinable work. Fie was alfo the author of, Onc- 
7 natologia Mtjjia Prophetica ; Ckrifologia Mqfaica & Davidica ; 
Difputationes in Augnjlanam CorfeJJionem ; Exegrfis Evangelio~ 
rum & Epijlolarum, &cc. 
GLASS'WORT, f. in botany. See Salicornia 
and Chenopodium. 
GLAS'SY, adj. Made of glafs ; vitreous.—In the 
valley near Mount Carmel in Judea there is a fand, 
v/hich of all others hath moft affinity with glafs ; info- 
much as other minerals laid in it turn to a giajfy fub- 
ftance. Bacon .—Refembling glafs, as in fmootlmefs or 
lullre, or brittlenefs.—Whole womb produc’d the glaj/y 
ice. Sandys. 
Man ! proud man ! 
Dreft in a little brief authority, 
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Mod ignorant of what he’s mod afliir’d, 
His glajfi efience ; like an angry ape. 
Plays fuel) fantadic tricks before high heav’n, 
As make the angels weep. Shakefpeare, 
GLAS'TENBURG, a town of United America, in 
the date of Connetlicut: feventeen miles wed-north- 
wed of Windham. 
GLAS'TONBURY, an ancient and much celebrated 
town in the county of Somerfet, didant one hundred 
and twenty-fix miles from London, twenty-feven from 
Bridol, twenty-fix from Bath, five from Wells, and fif¬ 
teen from Bridgewater. It is in a manner encompalfed 
witii rivers, and was of old called the I fie of Avalon. 
This town, while under tlie protection of its abbots, was 
a parliamentary boi'ough, but it lod that privilege at 
the cruel death of abbot Wliiting, in 1539. It is now 
a town corporate by charter from queen Anne, governed 
by a mayor, judice, eight aldermen, and fixtecn bui'- 
gell'es; but fends no members. Itconfidsof fix dreets- 
Here are two parilh churches ; the upper a handfome 
fabric will) a fine tower, adorned with figures in niches | 
one Prefoyterian meeting-houfe, and one meeting for 
Quakers ; two almfiioufes, one for men and the otiier 
for women, with a chapel belonging to each ; and a 
free-fehool for thirty boys ; alfo a Sunday fcl)ool. The 
market is on Wednefdays. Its annual fairs are held oiv 
Wednefday in Eader week, September 191]), October 
loth, and the Monday week after St. Andrew’s day. 
Gladonbury owes its origin to its celebrated abbey, 
fituated in a low marfiiy country, ruppofed to have been 
built about the year 708, in the reign of king Ina, who 
endowed it with great privileges. About tlie year 873, 
it was ruined by the Danes ; but vvas re-edified by king 
Edmund, the ninth Saxon monarcl),,who exeihpted it 
from all impofitions and oppreflions, and rendered it en¬ 
tirely fubjedd to, and dependent on, the abbey.. In this 
date it continued till the year 11.84, when both it and 
the abbey were confumed by fire. It was again rebuilt 
by the liberality of Henry III. but on the iith of Sep¬ 
tember, 1276, it was once more dellroyed by, an earth¬ 
quake, which precipitated the church of St. Michael 
from the Tor-hill, and greatly damaged other ftru(fture& 
in the country. Many houfes are aliiKjfi; entirely built 
witli Hones from the abbey. The towh comprehends 
two pari (lies, which contain upwards of ^60 houfes. 
Tlie abbey is laid to ow'e its foundation to Jofeph of 
Arimathea, who planted his faff’, jL\\a.t \s, took up his. abode 
here, and built an oratory in honour of the Virgin Mai y. 
In 542, the celebrated king Arthur, after being mor¬ 
tally wounded, vvas brought and interred here. In 605, 
a regular fociety was inlfituted by St. Auguftine, wlio 
was fent into England by pope Gregory the Great to 
preach the gofpel. About this time it obtained the 
name of Glajleinbyri, by which, with fome little varia¬ 
tion, it has ever iince been called. Several biihopsaiid 
kings were great benefa£tors ; but Ina excelled all his 
prcdecefi'urs in munificence; he pulled down the old 
monaftery, and rebuilt it in the moft fumptuous and 
magnificent manner, to the lionour of Chrift,. and tlie 
apoltles St. Peter and §t. Paul adorning tlie edifice 
with a coftly chapel, garniflicd and plated over with 
2640 pounds weight of filver, and an altar witli 264 
pounds weiglit of gold. Befides which he gave riclv 
ornaments thereto, as chalice, cenfer, candlefticks, ba- 
fbn, bucket, iniages, and pall for the altar, of incredible 
value, with precious gems for the embroidery of tlie 
celebrating robes. Succeeding monarchs were zealous 
in ratifying, confirming, and adding to, all the grants 
that had been made to this illuftrious foundation. In 
(Iiort, (to life tlie words of a Glaftonbury hiftorian,) 
kings and queens, not only of the Weft Saxons, but of 
otiier kingdoms of the iieptarchy, feveral archbilhops 
and billiops, many dukes, and the nobility of botli I'exes, 
tliought themfelves happy in encreafing the revenues 
of this venerable houfe^ to obtain them a pljice ot le- 
jjiiltuie 
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