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GLAZING
Etymology
Verb
glazing
present participle of glaze
Noun
glazing (countable and uncountable, plural glazings)
The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.
(architecture) All the windows of a building.
The art of covering with a vitreous substance.
(arts) Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.
Source: Wiktionary
Glaz"ing, n.
1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.
2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.
3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.
4. (Paint.)
Definition: Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.
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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