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glaux maritima | glave | glaver | glaverer | glaymore | glaze | glaze over | glazed | glazen | glazer | glazier

glaze

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CIDE DICTIONARY

glazev. t. [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.].
  •  To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.  [1913 Webster]
    "Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.  [1913 Webster]
    "Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored.  [PJC]
glazev. i. 
     To become glazed of glassy.  [1913 Webster]
glazen. 
  •  The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.  Ure.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A glazing oven. See Glost oven.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

glaze, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. a fit (a window, picture, etc.) with glass. b provide (a building) with glass windows.
2 tr. a cover (pottery etc.) with a glaze. b fix (paint) on pottery with a glaze.
3 tr. cover (pastry, meat, etc.) with a glaze.
4 intr. (often foll. by over) (of the eyes) become fixed or glassy (his eyes glazed over).
5 tr. cover (cloth, paper, leather, a painted surface, etc.) with a glaze.
6 tr. give a glassy surface to, e.g. by rubbing.
--n.
1 a vitreous substance, usu. a special glass, used to glaze pottery.
2 a smooth shiny coating of milk, sugar, gelatine, etc., on food.
3 a thin topcoat of transparent paint used to modify the tone of the underlying colour.
4 a smooth surface formed by glazing.
5 US a thin coating of ice.

Idiom
glazed frost a glassy coating of ice caused by frozen rain or a sudden thaw succeeded by a frost. glaze in enclose (a building, a window frame, etc.) with glass.
Derivative
glazer n. glazy adj.
Etymology
ME f. an oblique form of GLASS

THESAURUS

glaze

Dry Ice, Jell-O, apply paint, bake, bedaub, bedizen, begild, berg, besmear, blancmange, board, brick, brush on paint, buff, burnish, calcimine, calf, candy, china clay, china stone, clapboard, clay, coat, coating, color, comfit, complexion, compote, confection, confectionery, confiture, conserve, cover, covering, cryosphere, dab, daub, deep-dye, dip, distemper, double-dye, dulcify, dye, edulcorate, emblazon, enamel, engild, face, fast-dye, finish, fire, fireclay, firn, floe, flux, frazil, fresco, frosting, frozen water, furbish, gelatin, gild, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glance, glass, glazed frost, glint, gloss, grain, granular snow, ground ice, growler, honey, hue, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, icing, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, jam, japan, jelly, jokul, kaolin, lacquer, lath, lay on color, lolly, luster, marmalade, meringue, mold, mousse, mull, neve, nieve penitente, pack ice, paint, paper, parget, patina, petuntse, pigment, plank, polish, porcelain clay, pot, preserve, prime, refractory clay, revet, rub, saccharify, scour, serac, shade, shadow, shake, shape, sheathe, sheen, shelf ice, shellac, shine, shingle, slate, sleek, sleet, slick, slick down, slip, slob, slop on paint, sludge, smear, snow ice, snowberg, stain, stipple, stone, sugar, sugar off, sugarcoat, sweet, sweet stuff, sweeten, sweetmeat, sweets, thatch, throw, tile, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, turn a pot, tutti-frutti, undercoat, varnish, veneer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, wash, wax, weatherboard, whipped cream, whitewash

ROGET THESAURUS

glaze

Smoothness

VB smooth, smoothen, plane, file, mow, shave, level, roll, macadamize, polish, burnish, calender, glaze, iron, hot-press, mangle, lubricate.

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.


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