GLAZED

glassy, glazed

(adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; “empty eyes”; “a glassy stare”; “his eyes were glazed over with boredom”

glazed, shiny

(adjective) having a shiny surface or coating; “glazed fabrics”; “glazed doughnuts”

glazed, glassed

(adjective) fitted or covered with glass; “four glazed walls”

glazed

(adjective) (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture; “glazed doughnuts”; “a glazed ham”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

glazed

Of eyes: showing no liveliness.

Verb

glazed

simple past tense and past participle of glaze

Noun

glazed (plural glazeds)

(US, colloquial, rare) A glazed donut, one with a coating such as sugar or chocolate.

Source: Wiktionary


GLAZE

Glaze, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing.] Etym: [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.]

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.)

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

Glaze, v. i.

Definition: To become glazed of glassy.

Glaze, n.

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)

Definition: 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 Edition



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