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Webster 1913 Edition
Glaze
Glaze
(glāz)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glazed
(glāzd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glazing
.] 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
; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; glaze
earthenwareas, to
. glaze
paper, gunpowder, and the likeSorrow’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 , 3.
Glaze
, Verb.
T.
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.
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 2025
glaze
glaze
English
Noun
glaze (plural glazes)
- (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb).
- A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
- An edible coating applied to food.
- (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice
- Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
- A glazing oven. See glost oven.
Translations
coating on pottery
layer of paint
edible coating
meteorology: smooth coating of ice caused by freezing rain
reduced broth
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glazing oven
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Etymology 2
From Middle English glasen ("to fit with glass"). Either a continuation of an unattested Old English weak verb *glæsan, or coined in Middle English as a compound of glas and -en (standard infinitive suffix). Probably influenced in Modern English by glazen.
Verb
glaze (third-person singular simple present glazes, present participle glazing, simple past and past participle glazed)
- (transitive) To install windows.
- (transitive, ceramics, painting) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
- 2004, Frank Hamer; Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 978-0-7136-6408-9, page 248:
- An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
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- (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
- (intransitive) For eyes to take on an uninterested appearance.
Translations
to become glazed
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to apply a thin layer of coating
to look bored
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References
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.