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Pronunciation : Glaze
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.]
Definition : 1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, 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. Shak.

3. (Paint.)

Defn: To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

t. [imp. & p. p. Glazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Glaze
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To become glazed of glassy.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Glaze
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.

2. (Cookery)

Defn: Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913