[gleyz] 
verb, glazed, glaz⋅ing, noun | 1. | to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window. |
| 2. | to give a vitreous surface or coating to (a ceramic or the like), as by the application of a substance or by fusion of the body. |
| 3. | to cover with a smooth, glossy surface or coating. |
| 4. | Cookery. to coat (a food) with sugar, a sugar syrup, or some other glossy, edible substance. |
| 5. | Fine Arts. to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone. |
| 6. | to give a glassy surface to, as by polishing. |
| 7. | to give a coating of ice to (frozen food) by dipping in water. |
| 8. | to grind (cutlery blades) in preparation for finishing. |
| 9. | to become glazed or glassy: Their eyes glazed over as the lecturer droned on. |
| 10. | (of a grinding wheel) to lose abrasive quality through polishing of the surface from wear. |
| 11. | a smooth, glossy surface or coating. |
| 12. | the substance for producing such a coating. |
| 13. | Ceramics.
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| 14. | Fine Arts. a thin layer of transparent color spread over a painted surface. |
| 15. | a smooth, lustrous surface on certain fabrics, produced by treating the material with a chemical and calendering. |
| 16. | Cookery.
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| 17. | Also called glaze ice, silver frost, silver thaw, verglas; especially British, glazed frost. a thin coating of ice on terrestrial objects, caused by rain that freezes on impact. Compare rime 1 (def. 1). |
| glaze (glāz) n.
v. tr.
[From Middle English glasen, from glas, glass, from Old English glæs; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.] glaz'er n. |
