Now rare. [f. TIN sb. + GLASS.]

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  1.  An old name for BISMUTH.

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a. 1558.  Off. Augm., Misc. Bk., XLI. No. 194 (P. R. O.). Vaynes and Mynes … of … Antimonia and tyne glas and Sonddrye markasites.

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1577.  Harrison, England, III. xi. (1878), II. 72. It [pewter] consisteth of a composition, which hath thirtie pounds of kettle brasse to a thousand pounds of tin, whervnto they ad three or foure pounds of tinglasse.

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1682.  Hartman, Preserv. & Restorer Health, 342. The preparation of Magistery of Bistmuth or Tinglass.

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1704.  J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Bismuth, or Tin Glass, by the Ancients was thought to be a natural Marcasite or Mineral.

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1815.  J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 397. Bismuth is known among artisans by the name of tinglass.

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  † 2.  Tin. Obs. rare.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, XXXIV. xvi. II. 517. This white lead or tinglasse [plumbum album: see LEAD sb.1 1 b] hath been of long time in estimation, even since the warre of Troy, as witnesseth the Poet Homer, who calleth it Cassiteron. Ibid., xvii. A devise to tin pots, pans, and other peeces of brass … with white lead or tinglasse.

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