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Like some stares
Answer for the clue "Like some stares ", 6 letters:
glassy
Alternative clues for the word glassy
Word definitions for glassy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or like glass, in particular smooth and (somewhat) reflective. 2 Dull, expressionless 3 (context surfing of water not comparable English) Lacking any chop; smooth and mostly flat. n. (context Ulster English) glass marble
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather used of eyes lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN state ▪ Obviously the glassy state is a time-dependent one. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A glassy stone beloved by ancient toolmakers, obsidian was found only in two prehistoric spots in Arizona prior to the 1980s. ▪ ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from glass + -y (2).
Usage examples of glassy.
A shallow biconvex chunk of some glassy material, razor-edged, it barely fit into his open hand.
Ryne tucked it into his belt and took one of the missiles, A shallow biconvex chunk of some glassy material, razor-edged, it barely fit into his open hand.
I thought we were going to have a smooth, glassy sea, and had my eyes keen for broadbill fins.
Azores, spouting glassy water up out of his mouth in a cytological plume.
But the tendrils were more like tangled seaweed, or eelgrass, and beneath what she realized was not seaweed at all, but matted, human hair, glinted the glassy eyes of a dead girl!
Shortly thereafter, the heavy engines began to turn the paddles and the Bristan trader chugged northeast across an almost glassy sea.
To lie without motion, or pulse, or breath, With waxen cheeks, and limbs cold, stiff, and white, And open eyes, whose fixed and glassy light Mocked at the speculation they had owned.
I watched Mongolfier at the engine: he drew on my glove, and with it brought the ball close to the pedestal on which Plunkett sat, and then released it: as though thrown, it buried itself within the glassy box, lining up with the others there.
From the blackness of the palms there came sometimes thin notes of the birds of night, the whizzing noise of insects, the glassy pipe of a frog in the reeds by a pool behind a hot brown wall.
A round glassy glow the hue of polished onyx was centered in the middle of the construct like a baleful Polyphemian eye.
Gorge was rough and broken, with great slabs of glassy rock slanting out of the rich alluvial soil that was thickly overgrown with reedlike grasses or tall, heavy bushes thick with sharp thorns.
Its inky eyes were cold and merciless, sharklike in their steadiness and glassy concentration.
We are furnished with toolheads of a gemlike glassy material, vitredur, which stays eyersharp and is virtually indestructible for some 200 years, after which it degrades, like decamole.
Dressed in Johnny coats and hospital robes, the twins stand with their backs to each other - one studying the TV screen as if there is something urgent written on its glassy surface and the other looking out the window.
They carried curious weapons - swords with saw-toothed edges of crystal, hooked spears, and glassy globes held in slings.