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Webster 1913 Edition

Glaze

Glaze

(glāz)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glazed
(glāzd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Glazing
.]
[OE.
glasen
,
glazen
, fr.
glas
. See
Glass
.]
1.
To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.
Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and
glazed
with crystalline glass.
Bacon.
2.
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.
Shakespeare
3.
(Paint.)
To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

Glaze

,
Verb.
I.
To become glazed of glassy.

Glaze

,
Noun.
1.
The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See
Glaze
,
Verb.
T.
, 3.
Ure.
2.
(Cookery)
Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
3.
A glazing oven. See
Glost oven
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Glaze

GLAZE

,
Verb.
T.
[from glass.] To furnish with windows of glass; as, to glaze a house.
1.
To incrust with a vitreous substance, the basis of which is lead, but combined with silex, pearl-ashes and common salt; as, to glaze earthen ware.
2.
To cover with any thing smooth and shining; or to render the exterior of a thing smooth, bright and showy.
Though with other ornaments he may glaze and brandish the weapons.
3.
To give a glass surface; to make glossy; as, to glaze cloth.

Definition 2024

glāze

glāze

See also: glaze and glāzē

Latvian

Glāze

Noun

glāze f (5th declension)

  1. glass (small, usually cylindrical container for liquids, from which one drinks)
    vīna, alus glāze‎ ― wine, beer glass
    kristāla glāzes‎ ― crystal glasses
    krāsaina stikla glāzes‎ ― glasses (made) of colored glass
    ieliet limonādi glāzēs‎ ― to pour lemonade in the glasses
    tēvs paņem vīna pudeli un piepilda glāzes‎ ― father takes the wine bottle and fills the glasses
  2. glass (the container with its contents; its contents)
    “jūs esat lielisks runātājs, biedri Saleniek”, teica Ozols, pasniegdams ūdens glāzi‎ ― “you are a great speaker, comrade Saleniek,” Ozols said, handing him a glass of water
    apsēdies, izdzer glāzi piena‎ ― sit down, drink a glass of milk
    saputotām olām pievienot glāzi piena‎ ― to add a glass of milk to the whipped eggs
    divām glāzēm ogu pievienot divas glāzes cukura‎ ― to add two glasses of sugar to two glasses of berries
  3. (dated, syn. stikls) glass (material)
    zilas glāžu sienas‎ ― blue glass walls
    palielināmā, (pa)vairojamā glāze‎ ― magnifying glass

Declension

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “glāze”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Etymology

A borrowing from Middle Dutch glas or Middle Low German glas ‎(“glass (material; container)”). The Germanic term probably meant originally “amber” (a meaning still attested in Old High German), and only later “glass.” The borrowing is first mentioned in 17th-century Latvian dictionaries (though the family name Glāznieks is already attested in Kurzeme in the 16th century). Up until the 19th century, glāze meant both the material and the container; by the late 19th century on, these two meanings had already been split between glāze and stikls.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡlāːzɛ]

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