GLARES

Noun

glares

plural of glare

Anagrams

• Aglers, Glaser, Larges, Ragles, Slager, ergals, lagers, larges, regals

Source: Wiktionary


GLARE

Glare (glâr), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glared; p. pr. & vb. n. Glaring.] Etym: [OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. glær amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, D. gloren to glimmer; prob. akin to E. glass.]

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

2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.

3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. Pope.

Glare, v. t.

Definition: To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.

Glare, n.

1. A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.

2. A fierce, piercing look or stare. About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.

3. A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

4. A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. [U. S. ]

Glare, a. Etym: [See Glary, and Glare, n.]

Definition: Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. [U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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