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Home Dictionary Name: glass snakeGlass snake
A long footless lizard Ophiosaurus ventralis of the Southern United States so called from its fragility the tail easily breaking into small pieces It grows to the length of three feet The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World...
harlequin snake
any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white especially the eastern coral snake a small poisonous snake Micrurus fulvius or Elaps fulvius ringed with red and black found in the Southeastern United States They are widely distributed in Southern and Central America...
Glass ware
Glass ware, the dictionary meaning of the expres-sion 'glass ware' is 'articles made of glass' (see WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY).However, in commercial sense glass ware would never comprise articles like clinical syringes, thermometers, lectometers, and the like which have specialised significance and utility. In popular or commercial parlance a general merchant dealing in 'glass ware' does not ordinarily deal in articles like clinical syringes, thermometers, medical stores or with the manufacturers thereof like the assessee. It is equally unlikely that consumer would ask for such articles from a glass ware shop. In popular sense when one talks of glass ware such specialised articles like clinical syringes, thermometer, lectometers and the like do not come up to ones mind, Indo International Industries v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, AIR 1981 SC 1079 (1081): (1981) 2 SCC 528: (1981) 3 SCR 294. [U.P. Sales Tax, (15 of 1948)]...
Glass
Glass. By the (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 81(1), every person who steals or with intent to steal breaks any glass belonging to any building, shall be guilty of a felony punishable as in the case of simple larceny.By (English) Carriers Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will. 4, c. 68), s. 1, a carrier is not liable for loss or damage above 10l. unless such glass has been declared and an increased charge accepted.As to deposit in streets and the power of making byelaws to prevent such a nuisance, see (English) Highways Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 72; (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 76), s. 16; Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39Vict. c. 55), s. 171; (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 28. (English) Under Factories and Workshops Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), 'Glass works' is a non-textile factory; see ss. 40, 78, regarding meals and meal-times in such works; as to night employment of persons of fourteen and...
Flint glass
A soft heavy brilliant glass consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium It is used for tableware and for optical instruments as prisms its density giving a high degree of dispersive power so called because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints Called also crystal glass Cf Glass...
Other glass and glassware
Other glass and glassware, screens for fitting in motor vehicles knows as wind screens and door screen are only motor vehicle parts and these are not glass and glassware, Atul Glass Industries v. C.C.E., AIR 1986 SC 1730. [Central Excise and Salt Act, (1 of 1994) Sch I, Tariff Item 23A(4) and 68]...
Black snake
A snake of a black color of which two species are common in the United States the Bascanium constrictor or racer sometimes six feet long and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis seven or eight feet long...
Coachwhip snake
A large slender harmless snake of the southern United States Masticophis flagelliformis...
Sea snake
Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidaelig having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans They feed upon fishes and are mostly of moderate size but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad...
Snakes head
The Guinea hen flower so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snakes head...
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