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

Glairy. John Georgy (1766).

A burglar. [Obs.]

To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.

Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

e imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. J. R. Drake.

hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper col…

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.

To glare; to glower. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidæ, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.

de proud with pure and princely beauty ! Shak. And shades impervious to the proud world's glare. Keble.

t. For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. Pope.

Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter. Bacon.

w plover (Zoöl.), any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus Glareola, as G. orientalis of India; a pratincole. -- Swallow shrike (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family Artamiidæ, allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and ha…

Somewhat wan; of a pale hue. No sun, but a wannish glare, In fold upon fold of hueless cloud. Tennyson.