Glaze \Glaze\ (gl[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glazed} (gl[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Glazing}.] [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See {Glass}.] 1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.
Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. --Bacon.
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.
Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. --Shak.
3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
4. (Cookery) 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]
Glaze \Glaze\, v. i. To become glazed of glassy.
Glaze \Glaze\, n. 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See {Glaze}, v. t., 3. --Ure.
2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
3. A glazing oven. See {Glost oven}.
Glost oven \Glost" ov`en\ An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called {glaze kiln}, or {glaze}.
Eyes glaze over when monetarists talk about base money, velocity or purchasing power parity.
Tell-tale signs include a tendency for the eyes to glaze over and the head to nod uncontrollably up and down.
"People think about the Constitution and their eyes glaze over," she says.
They had a thin brown or yellow glaze.
Have you examined the side-walls for damage? I can guess the answer and your conscience should be pricking just a little. At the mention of tyres, most motorists' eyes glaze over.