Meaning of anaclastic glass | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, with a very thin convex bottom that can be made concave or convex by sucking out or blowing in air, used to demonstrate the malleability of glass.
2. Synonym of vexing glass.

Examples

“Anaclastic glasses are chiefly manufactured in Germany of a fine white glass, but any other glass, which is uniform in its substnace, and not very hard, will do equally well.”

“[…], such as the anaclastic glasses (vases blown with a thin bottom that could spring in and out without breaking) to which Lentilius’s article was devoted.”

“The Double reflects the drama of the lonely man of our time as in an anaclastic glass. What is piquant is that the costs of the fruitless emancipation are borne, not by a hero, a great personage, but by an amusing little fellow, one of the poor people .”

“The earlier poems of Spring and All are less exquisite than this: like anaclastic glasses which refract the broken rays of light, they relate in style to the structure of the crystal, rather than in idea to the lucidity of glass.”

“One astronomer's anaclastic glass; if a friend looks through it and a small screw is turned, it will blow pepper and snuff into his eyes.”

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