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Webster 1913 Edition
Glaze
Glaze
(glāz)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glazed
(glāzd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glazing
.] 1.
To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.
Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and
glazed
with crystalline glass. Bacon.
2.
To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass;
as, to
; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; glaze
earthenwareas, to
. glaze
paper, gunpowder, and the likeSorrow’s eye
glazed
with blinding tears. Shakespeare
3.
(Paint.)
To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
Glaze
,Verb.
I.
To become glazed of glassy.
Glaze
,Noun.
1.
The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See , 3.
Glaze
, Verb.
T.
Ure.
2.
(Cookery)
Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
3.
A glazing oven. See
Glost oven
. Webster 1828 Edition
Glaze
GLAZE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To incrust with a vitreous substance, the basis of which is lead, but combined with silex, pearl-ashes and common salt; as, to glaze earthen ware.2.
To cover with any thing smooth and shining; or to render the exterior of a thing smooth, bright and showy. Though with other ornaments he may glaze and brandish the weapons.
3.
To give a glass surface; to make glossy; as, to glaze cloth.