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glaze

[gleyz] verb, glazed, glaz⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
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.
–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, esp. 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 rime 1 (def. 1).

Origin:
1325–75; ME glasen, deriv. of glas glass


glaz⋅i⋅ly, adverb
glaz⋅i⋅ness, noun
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Word Origin & History

glaze  (v.)
1362, glasen "to fit with glass," from glas (see glass), probably infl. by glazier (1385). Noun sense of "substance used to make a glossy coating" is first attested 1784.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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