glazen.
/ɡleɪz/, U.S. /ɡleɪz/ 1. The vitreous composition used for glazing pottery, etc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > glaze > for ceramics or pottery
glaze1807
lustre1829
smear1875
smear-glaze1893
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 493 The glaze employed to cover vessels of stoneware may be distinguished into three kinds.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1016 When it reaches the melting point of the glaze.
1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 10 The materials for the glaze of English porcelain are ground flint, Cornish stone, borax, lead, &c.
2. gen. A transparent substance used for coating anything, so as to produce a glazed or lustrous surface. spec. in Cookery (see quot. 1877); of a glaze: of the consistency of glaze.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > glaze
vitriature1569
glazing1700
lustre1728
glaze1789
lustring1875
1789 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) ii. 92 (Fowl à la Braise) Strain the sauce, and after you have skimmed off the fat boil it down till it is of a glaze.
1877 Cassell's Dict. Cookery Glaze is made from clear stock, boiled down until it forms a sort of meat varnish or strong jelly; it is used to improve the appearance of many dishes.
1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 30. 39 Mix with glaze slightly diluted.
3. A smooth and glossy surface, a bright polished appearance; spec. (U.S.) of maize seed (cf. 1889 at glaze v.1 6).
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [noun] > polished or glossy smoothness
politure1592
politeness1638
glaze1791
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 741 Glossy as the glaze of oil.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 402 The fine yellow glaze appropriate to meat-pies, is given with beaten yolk of egg.
1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 11 I think the crop would be required to be cut before the seed was in full glaze.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 223/1 The result is a beautiful transparent glaze.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 313 Dense hard powder will take a higher glaze than the softer kinds.
4. U.S. A coating or covering of ice; also, a stretch of ice.
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1752 J. MacSparran Amer. Dissected (1753) 39 I rode 30 Miles upon one continued Glaze of Ice upon the Land.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 215 Whenever the winter..sets in with rain, so as to cover the branches and leaves of trees with a glaze of ice.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxviii. 229 Old seasoned hummock, covered with slippery glaze.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) ii. 141 They [sc. moose] cannot run on a ‘glaze’, though they can run in snow four feet deep; but the caribou can run on ice.
5. Painting. A thin coat of transparent colour laid over another colour so as to modify the tone.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > modifying tone > by thin coat of paint > coat of paint
scumble1834
glaze1860
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 193 (note) In cleaning the ‘Hero and Leander’..these upper glazes were taken off, and only the black ground left.
1885 Mag. Art Sept. 471/2 The employment..of glazes which are dull and have little more reflective power than paint.
6. slang. A window. on the glaze (also upon the glaze): robbing jewellers' shops after smashing the windows.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > window
eyethirleOE
eilthirlc1225
windowc1230
windown?a1289
fenesterc1290
fenestral1399
winnock1492
tresance1510
windore1542
lighta1586
wind-door1606
ventana1672
winder1683
glaze1699
mezzanine1731
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Glaze, the Window.
1719 A. Smith Compl. Hist. Lives & Robberies Highway-men (ed. 5) II. 43 At Dublin, he [Jack Waldron] went upon the Glaze, which is robbing Goldsmiths Shew-Glasses on their Stalls, by cutting them..with a Glazier's Diamond; or else waiting for a Coach coming by, breaking 'em with the hand.
1753 Discov. J. Poulter (ed. 2) 39 Undub the Jeger, and jump the Glaze.
1823 W. T. Moncrieff Tom & Jerry iii. ii Jerry. What are you about, Tom? Tom. I'm going to mill the glaze—I'll —— (Is about to break the Glass, when [etc.]).
Compounds
C1.
glaze liquor n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1017 The piece of ware..is immersed in the glaze liquor.
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glaze-ice n. U.S. thin surface ice.
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1896 N.Y. Weekly Witness 23 Dec. 4/1 Much of the ice was glaze-ice.
glaze-kiln n. a kiln in which glazed ware is placed for firing.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > pottery kilns
pot-oven1702
biscuit oven1768
gloss-oven1825
glaze-kiln1839
porcelain kiln1848
grand feu1850
smother-kiln1851
bisque1853
muffle kiln1853
muffle1875
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1015 Glaze-kiln. This is usually smaller than the biscuit kiln.
glaze-wheel n. a wooden wheel used by cutlers for polishing knives, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > polishing or sharpening
grindle stonec1400
grindstone1404
glazier1688
wheel1707
grinding-wheel1791
glaze-wheel1853
1853 O. Byrne Handbk. Artisan 451 The cutlers' wood or glaze wheels are mostly fed with emery cake.
glaze-work n. = glazing n.
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1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory iii. 95 Colours for Potters Glaze Work.
glaze-worm n. [? < glaze v.1] a glow-worm: cf. glass-worm n. at glass n.1 Compounds 3.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm)
glow-wormc1320
gold worm?c1475
glowbard?a1500
silver-worm?a1500
glose-worm1519
glass-worm1552
glaze-worm1578
glare-worm1607
night-worm1774
glow-bug1781
fireworm1821
glow-beetle1860
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 30v Dost thou not know that a perfect friende should be lyke the Glazeworme, which shineth most bright in the darke?
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Glaze-worm, glow-worm.
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glazev.1
/ɡleɪz/, U.S. /ɡleɪz/ 1. transitive. To fit or fill in (a window, etc.) with glass, to furnish (a building) with windows of glass, to cover (a picture, etc.) with glass. to glaze in: to enclose with glass. †to glaze one's houve: to provide with a head-covering of glass, hence apparently to mock, delude, befool (see houve n.).
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with glass > work with glass [verb (transitive)] > glaze
glazec1369
englassc1425
glass1540
glazen1566
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase]
to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330
to glaze one's houvec1369
to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529
to make a fool of1534
to give (any one) the bobc1540
to lead (a person) a dancea1545
to make (someone) an ass1548
to make (a person) an ox1566
to play bob-fool witha1592
to sell any one a bargain1598
to put the fool on1649
to make a monkey (out) of1767
to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869
to string (someone) along1902
to swing it on or across1923
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 323 With glas Were all the wyndowes well yglased.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 469 Fortune his howve entended bet to glase [cf. ii. 867].
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. 50 Woldustow Glase þe Gable and graue þerinne þi nome, Siker schulde þi soule ben for to dwellen in heuene.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 198/1 Glasyn' wythe glasse, vitro, vel vitrio.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvii. x The rofe was wrought, curyously and well; The wyndowes glased marvaylously to tell.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. i. 237 The houses of our princes..were often glased with Berill.
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxxvi. sig. Y8 The soule, hath nothing, no not her windowes glased.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 406 Raph Astrie..new roofed this Church..and beautifully glased it.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 83 For glasing the two windows.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 59 This instrument is subscribed by John Codurz..and some others. It is glazed for its better preservation, it being certainly a piece which should by all means be transmitted to posterity.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 53 The windows are so well glazed, as not to admit the least air.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 204 Persons..have baskets of glass of various sizes sent to them from the towns, and glaze their own windows.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 668 Greater facility for repairing or glazing than those [lamps] of the ordinary sort.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic li Somebody saw a portrait framed and glazed At Croisic.
1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 11 Dec. 17/2 The back wall on either side of the central door is glazed in and forms a case in which is arranged a vast collection of ancient arms and armour.
2.
a. To cover (the surface of pottery, etc.) with a vitreous substance which is fixed by fusion. Also, to vitrify the surface of.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > make pottery [verb (transitive)] > glaze
glazec1400
lead1558
smear1839
salt glaze1968
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with coating or covering materials > work with coating or covering materials [verb (transitive)] > lustre or glaze
glazec1400
glass1577
regloss1609
glazen1657
lustrate1688
lustre1883
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 187 Sette hem..in a vessel of erþe glasid wiþinne.
a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 5 Take what vessel of glas þat ȝe wole, or of erþe strongly glasid.
1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 97 A newe earthen pot not glased.
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1744) I. 207/2 An ore, which for its aptness to vitrify, and serve the potters to glaze their earthern vessels, the miners call pottern-ore.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 142 I had no Notion..of glazing them [sc. pots] with Lead.
1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. ix. iii. 100 Green and blue bricks which are glazed, so that when the sun shines, the eye is perfectly dazzled.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 483 The bamboo, or cane-coloured pottery..is never glazed outside.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xix. 453 Some ejected fragments of granite,..curiously glazed and altered by the heat.
1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 17 The process of glazing is simple, but requires a practised hand, so that every piece may be equally glazed.
b. figurative. To cover as with a glaze, to gloss over.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > improve appearance
paintc1390
set1540
daub1543
plaster1546
varnish1571
to gild over1574
adorn1589
parget1592
glaze1605
apparel1615
pranka1616
lustre1627
candidate1628
varnish1641
lacquer1688
whitewash1703
tinsel1748
duff1750
fineer1765
veneer1847
superficialize1851
gloss1879
window dress1913
beglamour1926
sportswash2012
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles ii. i. D 1 b The fond world Like to a doting Mother glases ouer Her childrens imperfections with fine tearmes.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 443. ⁋4 By putting forth base Methods in a good Light, and glazing them over with improper Terms.
c. To fix (paint) on pottery by this process. Similarly (nonce-use), to throw (light) like a glaze on
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1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. II. 503 The vessel being now baked, the paint is glazed on.
1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady i. 35 Her window now is darkness, save the sheen Glazed on it by the moon.
3. figurative.1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such vii. 137 Some minds seem well glazed by nature against the admission of knowledge.
a. To overlay or cover with a smooth and lustrous coating. Also, to cover (the eyes) with a film.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > afflict with eye disorder [verb (transitive)] > film
glaze1597
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > with something smooth or lustrous
glaze1597
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > glaze
endore?c1390
dorec1430
liquora1704
glaze1845
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. ii. 16 For Sorrowes eyes glazed with blinding teares, Diuides one thing entire to many obiects. View more context for this quotation
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age i. sig. B4 That I may glaze my harpe in the bloud Of Tyrant Pretus.
1632 T. Heywood 1st Pt. Iron Age ii, in Wks. (1874) III. 293 A field glazd with swords.
1653 Cloria & Narcissus 90 Thus he continued glasing his sight, all the while, with the troubled water of sorrowfull teares.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 121 The delightful smoothness wherewith they [Venus-shells] are glaz'd both within and without.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 63 A great Plain of very smooth whitish ground, glazed over with Salt.
1773 J. Cook Jrnl. 7 Oct. (1969) II. 272 As they have a method of glazing it [sc. cloth], it is more durable and will resist rain for some time which Otahiete cloth will not.
1800 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Mariner (rev. ed.) iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) I. 165 Each throat Was parch'd, and glaz'd each eye.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 107 Till darkness glazed his eyeballs dim.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 97 His eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 402 To Glaze or Ice Pastry.
1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 5/6 Messrs. Farmer's apparatus..for chasing, glazing, and embossing cloth.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 613 Tawed leather..is glazed in the same manner..with the exception that the glazing fluid is applied twice.
b. esp. of frost, etc. Also with over, up.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [verb (transitive)] > cover with frost
frosty1596
frost1614
glaze1627
glass1880
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) i. 20 Where winter..With lasting cold doth glaze the Scythian seas.
1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle iv. sig. D8v Where a perpetuall winter binds the ground And glazeth up the flouds?
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 537 Snow whitening all the fields Froze with the blast, and gath'ring glaz'd our shields.
1748 J. Hervey Descant Creation in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 4) I. 264 Cold, whose icy Breath glazed yearly the Russian Seas.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxii. 179 The sound presented a novel spectacle to us; the young ice glazing it over.
1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 337 A sharp wind-frost had..glazed the fallows.
4. Painting. To cover (a painted surface) with a thin coat of a different transparent colour, so as to modify the tone without mixing. Also, to lay (a transparent colour) over another.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > modify tone > by thin layer of paint
glaze1622
scumble1866
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xii. 113 When it is dry, glaze it ouer with a little Lake.
1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 83 All Stones..must be glazed upon silver, with their proper colours, with a varnish.
1672 C. Beale Pocket-bk. in H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (1763) III. i. 70 He glazed the whole place, where the face and haire were drawn in a colour over thin.
1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 179 White with other strong Colours, with which we paint at once that which we intend to glaze, are as it were, the Life, the Spirit, and the Lustre of it.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 298 I glazed the proper colours over it.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 134 Red..mixed with the pure blue, or glazed over it.
5.
a. To make to shine like glass; to give a smooth glassy surface to (anything), esp. by rubbing; to polish, to render brilliant.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > polish [verb (transitive)]
rollc1300
burnishc1325
burnc1374
polisha1382
dighta1400
glazec1440
glazer1473
frubbish1570
shine1604
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 197/1 Glacyn or make a þy(n)ge to shyne, pernitido.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Giij For lacke of vsynge a swerde erst glasyd bryght With rust is etyn.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. viii. sig. G2 Hee..Lies streaking brawnie limmes in weakning bed, Perfum'd, smooth kemb'd, new glaz'd.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iii. iv. sig. F2v There stands a Neophyte, glazing of his face, Against his Idoll enters.
1639 in Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd Ser. XIV. 373 Blacke Marble ritchly glaszd.
1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1660) 155 Like polish'd Silver, or well glaz'd Arms.
1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. x. 16 Polishing and glazing even to the very channelling or flutes of the Columns.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xlii. 200 So worn, so glazed..was it with fingers.
1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 240 You may glaze powder and make it so smooth that it would be very difficult to ignite.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 313 The next process is to glaze or polish the individual grains [of gunpowder].
b. Cutlery manufacture. (See quot. 1888.)
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1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Glaze, to roughly polish a knife. This is an intermediate process between grinding and polishing.
6. intransitive. To become glazed, assume a glassy appearance.
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1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 30 Put in a Ladleful of Gravy, boil it and strain it..and then put in the Sweetbreads to glaze.
1883 H. George Social Probl. (1884) ix. 119 What shall it matter, when eyeballs glaze and ears grow dull, if [etc.].
1889 Opelousas (Louisiana) Democrat Dec. The crop is usually cut for ensilage purposes when the ears are commencing to ‘glaze’.
1895 Ramshorn (Chicago) 8 June 3 Gradually his eyes glazed and closed.
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glazev.2
Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. To stare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze
stareOE
gawc1175
darea1225
porec1300
muse1340
glowc1374
gogglec1380
gazec1386
glore?a1400
glopc1400
govec1480
glower?a1513
gowk1513
daze1523
amuse1532
glew1587
to feed one's eyes1590
to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598
to shoot one's eyes1602
glazea1616
stargaze1639
gaum1691
to stare like a stuck pig1702
ygaze1737
gawk1785
to feed one's sight1813
gloze1853
glow1856
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 21 Against the Capitoll I met a Lyon, Who glaz'd vpon me, and went surly by. View more context for this quotation
1802 ‘P. Pindar’ Middlesex Election i. 5 O Lord, my Lord, I'm in a maze, I do so look about and glaze.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Glaze, to stare.
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