GLAZE

v. n.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

2.
v.

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. Shak.

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

To become glazed of glassy.

5.
n.

The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.

6.
n.

Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

7.
n.

A glazing oven. See Glost oven.


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