To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden.
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.
To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. Pope.
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.
A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.
A fierce, piercing look or stare. About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.
A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. [U. S. ]
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. [U. S.]
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