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A Glassie Gray.
The word Glasse is selfe commeth from the Belgick and high Dutch : Glasse from the verbe Glansen which signifieth amongst them to shine, from the Greeke […] the same, or perhaps for glacies in the Latine, which Ice, whose colour it resembleth, in French it is called Coleur de voir, in Italian vitreo color di vetro, in high Dutch Glasgrum, in Spanish Color vidrial, in Greeke ὑάλινον of ὑαλος, that is moist, and that from pluere, to raine, from whence also proceed those words in Latine, humus, udus, &c. It is an ayery and greenish white, it serveth to imitate at sometime the skie-glasses of all sorts, fountaines and the like […].

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