glassed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of glass.

   The architects glassed the atrium to flood the lobby with daylight.

   After the balcony was glassed, the noise from the street dropped sharply.

   Note

   One -ed spelling serves both the past tense (they glassed the porch) and the participle after have or be (the porch was glassed). Its meaning depends on which verb is meant: fitting with glass, sealing in fiberglass, viewing through binoculars, bombarding a landscape until it melts, or, in colloquial British use, striking someone with a drinking glass. The participle also settles into the "walled in by glass" adjective and the assault adjective.

2. 2
   adjectiverare

   Enclosed, shielded, or walled in by panes or sheets of glass.

   The glassed walkway connected the two office towers above the busy street.

   Visitors studied the ancient coins through a glassed display case.

   Similarglazed

   Oppositeunglassed

   Note

   Few writers reach for this adjective, and it does not grade: a balcony is glassed or it is not, never more glassed. Its opposite is unglassed. Because the same form can describe a person attacked with a drinking glass, keep this sense for things such as walkways, porches and display cases, where it cannot be misread as the assault meaning.

3. 3
   adjectivecolloquial

   Of a person: having been attacked with a broken or smashed drinking glass.

   Two men were left glassed and bleeding after the brawl spilled into the parking lot.

   She was glassed during a heated argument at the club and carries the scar to this day.

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