Careful Words

glasses (n.)

Fill all the glasses there, for why

Should every creature drink but I?

Why, man of morals, tell me why?

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): From Anacreon, ii. Drinking.

Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form

Glasses itself in tempests.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 183.

  They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Hermit. Chap. ix.

Ho! stand to your glasses steady!

'T is all we have left to prize.

A cup to the dead already,—

Hurrah for the next that dies!

Bartholomew Dowling: Revelry in India.