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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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