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Double time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

lishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum. -- Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.

uct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay. He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage. Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly. -- Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combi…

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

chine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.

rcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.

The act of setting in a flame or blaze. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army. A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. Dryden.

The material for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.

A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." Bacon.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. Boyle.