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verb

Glaze v. t. (past & past part. glazed; pres. part. 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."

2.

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. "Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears."

3.

(Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

4.

(Cookery) 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.

Glaze v. i. To become glazed of glassy.

adjective

glazed, glassed adj.

1.

Fitted or covered with glass; as, a glassed wall. Opposite of unglazed.

glazed adj.

1.

Same as glassed.

Synonyms: glassed.

2.

Having a shiny surface or coating; as, glazed fabrics; glazed doughnuts. (Narrower terms: glassy, vitreous, vitrified; glossy, calendered; icy; glacé). Antonym: unglazed.

Synonyms: shiny.

3.

Lacking liveliness; used of eyes; as, a glazed look.

Synonyms: glassy.

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Etymology of 'Glazed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glazed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sebastian, and still wore his arm in a sling. What was a great deal worse for him, every member of the company had been plying him with drink. His honest yokel's countenance blazed as if with fever, his eyes were glazed and looked the two ways, and his feet stumbled as, amidst a murmur of applause, he returned to the midst of ...

— St Ives • Robert Louis Stevenson

... ships are creatures of intense caste and self-conscious righteousness. They rarely forgive a fallen sister—even when she has fallen through no fault of her own. Observe the Nieuw Amsterdam as she lies, very solid and spick, a few piers above. Her funnel is gay with bright green stripes; her glazed promenade deck is white and immaculate. But, is there not just a faint suggestion of smugness in her mien? She seems thanking the good old Dutch Deity of cleanliness and respectability that she herself is not like this poor trolloping giantess, degraded from the embrace of ocean and the unblemished ...

— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley

... steadily up at Joe. Shot as he was, dying as he knew himself to be, there was no yielding in the dark eye—only an unquenchable hatred. Then the eyes glazed; the fingers ...

— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey

... we'll say (This counter, here, your post, as mine to-day), And you've an eye to luxuries, what harm In smoothing down your palate with the charm Yourself concocted? There we issue take; And see! as thus across the rim I break This puffy paunch of glazed embroidered cake, So breaks, through use, the lust of watering chaps And craveth plainness: do I so? Perhaps; But that's my secret. Find me such a man As Lippo yonder, built upon the plan Of heavy storage, double-navelled, fat From his own giblet's oils, ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... sharpened by such terror as only the sin-steeped soul can know, they saw the waxen eyelids of the mummy slowly rise, the dim, glazed eyes look out from underneath them, the dry, black lips move, and heard a thin, harsh voice say ...

— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith

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