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glass

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Searchable Lemmata: glas (OE), glace (AF), glas (ME), glas (OScots), glass (MdE).
Alternate Forms: glase, glasse, glasce, gles, glese, glæs, glæs.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Jewellery; glass; hard, smooth, translucent substance; as used as an alternative to gemstones in jewellery (also used attributively).(ante 900 still in current use)
1. petites bedes de coper en un pice de drap linge ... Item, deliveré mesme temps, i [p]eire bedes de latoun endorré, i anelle d’or stuffé ové plumbe, et un glas, pris en le schope de Busshe Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Goldsmiths (248) 1334/1370]
2. Ley yt vnder a pese of glasse sete in a ryng [MED Burg.Practica ((Rwl D.251) 257/8) circa 1450]
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Sex: Male, Female, Infant    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old English glæs & glas and Old French glace.
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