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<blockquote>Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and <b>glazed</b> with crystalline glass. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; <as>as, to <ex>glaze</ex> earthenware</as>; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; <as>as, to <ex>glaze</ex> paper, gunpowder, and the like</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Sorrow's eye <b>glazed</b> with blinding tears. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Paint.)</fld> <def>To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.</def>

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<hw>Glaze</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To become glazed of glassy.</def>

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<hw>Glaze</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See <er>Glaze</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, 3.</def>

<i>Ure.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A glazing oven. See <er>Glost oven</er>.</def>

<h1>Glazen</h1> <Xpage=629>

<hw>Glaz"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>gl\'91sen</ets>.]</ety> <def>Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Wyclif.</i>

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<hw>Glaz"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.</def>

<h1>Glazier</h1> <Xpage=629>

<hw>Gla"zier</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Glaze</er>.]</ety> <def>One whose business is to set glass.</def>

<cs><col>Glazier's diamond</col>. <cd>See under <er>Diamond</er>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Glaz"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; <as>as, the <ex>glazing</ex> of pottery or porcelain, or of paper</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Paint.)</fld> <def>Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.</def>

<h1>Glazy</h1> <Xpage=629>

<hw>Glaz"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.</def>

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