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.
verb (used without object)
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.
noun
11.
a smooth, glossy surface or coating.
12.
the substance for producing such a coating.
13.
Ceramics.
a.
a vitreous layer or coating on a piece of pottery.
b.
the substance of which such a layer or coating is made.
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.
a.
a substance used to coat a food, especially sugar or sugar syrup.
b.
stock cooked down to a thin paste for applying to the surface of meats.
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 rime1( def 1 ).
Origin: 1325–75;Middle Englishglasen, derivative of glasglass
Related forms
glaz·i·ly, adverb
glaz·i·ness, noun
re·glaze, verb (used with object), re·glazed, re·glaz·ing.
mid-14c., glasen "to fit with glass," from glas (see glass), probably infl. by glazier (late 14c.). Noun sense of "substance used to make a glossy coating" is first attested 1784.