glaze. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

glaze

PRONUNCIATION:	glz
NOUN:	1. A thin smooth shiny coating. 2. A thin glassy coating of ice. 3a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. b. A coating, as of syrup, applied to food. c. A transparent coating applied to the surface of a painting to modify the color tones. 4. A glassy film, as one over the eyes.
VERB:	Inflected forms: glazed, glaz·ing, glaz·es
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To fit, furnish, or secure with glass: glaze a window. 2. To apply a glaze to: glaze a doughnut; glaze pottery. 3. To coat or cover thinly with ice. 4. To give a smooth lustrous surface to.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To be or become glazed or glassy: His eyes glazed over from boredom. 2. To form a glaze.
ETYMOLOGY:	From Middle English glasen, from glas, glass, from Old English glæs. See ghel-² in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	glazer —NOUN


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