Modifying Another Word

• almost: There was a bigger swell and shore break, but the water was smooth - almost glassy - good conditions for a swim.

• perfectly: They form the passage from the perfectly glassy portions, to those nearly homogeneous and stony, with only an obscure concretionary structure.

• so: His eyes were so glassy and quite unnerved me.

Modifies a noun

• feldspar: I picked up some specimens, with much glassy feldspar, approaching in character to trachyte.

• stare: The Tiber sends back a glassy stare in the darkness.

• polymer: Glassy polymers In a glassy polymer, all the molecules are fixed firmly in position.

• sea: Looking across the glassy calm sea at the mouth of Newhaven Harbor.

• appearance: Foam of glassy appearance, perhaps scattered white horses.

• surface: Bringing the cruel lash to bear with extreme violence, he sent the dogs howling out upon the glassy surface.

Used with adjective complement

• go: You will find the leaves start to go glassy.

• become: My limbs became glassy, the bones and arteries faded, vanished, and the little white nerves went last.