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What does "glaze" mean?

Glaze: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
  2. 3.To become glazed of glassy.
  3. 4.The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.
  4. 5.(Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
  5. 6.A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

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