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glaze

(glāz)

1. A thin smooth shiny coating.

2. A thin glassy coating of ice.

a. 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.

v. glazed, glaz·ing, glaz·es

v.tr.

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.

v.intr.

1. To be or become glazed or glassy: His eyes glazed over from boredom.

2. To form a glaze.

[From Middle English glasen, from glas, glass, from Old English glæs; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

glaz′er n.

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Noun

glazer - someone who cuts flat glass to size

glassworker, glazier, glass cutter, glass-cutter

artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

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