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Glassy; glazed. [Obs.] And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.

Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.

A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.

es, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon. [Obs.] Portentous blaze of comets and impressions in the air. Milton. A fiery impression falling from out of Heaven. Holland.

With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light. "Fettered in amorous chains." Shak. Wrapt in sweet sounds, as in bright veils. Shelley.

Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns. Ingle nock, the chimney corner. -- Ingle side, Ingle cheek, the fireside.

In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

n than light.] A key of fire ran all along the shore, And lightened all the river with a blaze. Dryden.

ed States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

To burn; to blaze. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

a, but less brilliantly decorated, esp. such pottery without tin enamel, but painted and glazed.

sually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots. -- Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.…

a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.

A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.

A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.