1.  glaze(n = noun.food) - any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods;
is a kind of topping
Derived form verb glaze₄

2.  glaze(n = noun.attribute) - a glossy finish on a fabric;
is a kind of burnish, gloss, glossiness, polish

3.  glaze(n = noun.attribute) - a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.;
is a kind of coating, finish, finishing
has particulars: luster, lustre
Derived form verb glaze₁

1.  glaze(v = verb.contact) - coat with a glaze; "the potter glazed the dishes"; "glaze the bread with eggwhite"
is one way to coat, surface
Derived form noun glaze₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2.  glaze(v = verb.change) glass, glass over, glaze over - become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"
is one way to change
Sample sentences: Something ----s

3.  glaze(v = verb.possession) glass - furnish with glass; "glass the windows"
is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply
Derived form noun glazier₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  glaze(v = verb.perception) candy, sugarcoat - coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze;
is one way to dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten
Derived form noun glaze₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

1.  To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass. [1913 Webster]
"Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass." [1913 Webster]

2.  To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. [1913 Webster]
"Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears." [1913 Webster]

3.  To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect. [1913 Webster]

4.  To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored. [PJC]

   To become glazed of glassy. [1913 Webster]

1.  The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure. [1913 Webster]

2.  Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes. [1913 Webster]

3.  A glazing oven. See Glost oven. [1913 Webster]

glaze, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. a fit (a window, picture, etc.) with glass. b provide (a building) with glass windows.
2 tr. a cover (pottery etc.) with a glaze. b fix (paint) on pottery with a glaze.
3 tr. cover (pastry, meat, etc.) with a glaze.
4 intr. (often foll. by over) (of the eyes) become fixed or glassy (his eyes glazed over).
5 tr. cover (cloth, paper, leather, a painted surface, etc.) with a glaze.
6 tr. give a glassy surface to, e.g. by rubbing.
--n.
1 a vitreous substance, usu. a special glass, used to glaze pottery.
2 a smooth shiny coating of milk, sugar, gelatine, etc., on food.
3 a thin topcoat of transparent paint used to modify the tone of the underlying colour.
4 a smooth surface formed by glazing.
5 US a thin coating of ice.

Idiom:
glazed frost a glassy coating of ice caused by frozen rain or a sudden thaw succeeded by a frost. glaze in enclose (a building, a window frame, etc.) with glass.

Derivative:
glazer n. glazy adj.

Etymology:
ME f. an oblique form of GLASS

VB  smooth, smoothen, plane, file, mow, shave, level, roll, macadamize, polish, burnish, calender, glaze, iron, hot-press, mangle, lubricate.

N  cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.

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