Anyone who has worked with glass for any amount of time knows that the world of glass art has a language all its own.
To help you navigate the glass lexicon, here are links to several of the better glass glossaries available online today.
Corning's is by far the best (no surprise) but no single glossary covers all the terms you might run across. And don't hesitate to cross check definitions -- not all the glossaries agree completely on what some of the terminology means.