Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
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.