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  • English Word Glare Definition A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
  • English Word Glare Definition Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
  • English Word Glared Definition of Glare
  • English Word Glareous Definition Glairy.
  • English Word Glariness Definition Alt. of Glaringness
  • English Word Glaring Definition of Glare
  • English Word Glaring Definition Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.
  • English Word Glaringness Definition A dazzling luster or brilliancy.
  • English Word Glary Definition Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.
  • English Word Glase Definition To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.
  • English Word Glase Definition 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.
  • English Word Glase Definition To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
  • English Word Glased Definition of Glase
  • English Word Glass Definition A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
  • English Word Glass Definition Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
  • English Word Glass Definition Anything made of glass.
  • English Word Glass Definition A looking-glass; a mirror.
  • English Word Glass Definition A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
  • English Word Glass Definition A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
  • English Word Glass Definition An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
  • English Word Glass Definition A weatherglass; a barometer.
  • English Word Glass Definition To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
  • English Word Glass Definition To case in glass.
  • English Word Glass Definition To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
  • English Word Glass Definition To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
  • English Word Glass maker Definition Alt. of Glassmaker
  • English Word Glass-crab Definition The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.
  • English Word Glass-faced Definition Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.
  • English Word Glass-gazing Definition Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.
  • English Word Glass-rope Definition A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.