GLARE

v. n. a.

9 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden.

2.
v.

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.

3.
v.

To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. Pope.

4.
v.

To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.

5.
n.

A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.

6.
n.

A fierce, piercing look or stare. About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.

7.
n.

A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

8.
n.

A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. [U. S. ]

9.
a.

Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. [U. S.]


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