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Glazing - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Glase \Glase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glased; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glazing.] [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.]
1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Glazing : \Glaz"ing\, n.
1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with
a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or
rendering glossy.
2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.
3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any
surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of
pottery or porcelain, or of paper.
4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed
thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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