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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
glaze
    n 1: any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings
         applied to foods
    2: a glossy finish on a fabric
    3: a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.
    v 1: coat with a glaze; "the potter glazed the dishes"; "glaze
         the bread with eggwhite"
    2: become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes
       glaze over when she is bored" [syn: glaze, glass, glass
       over, glaze over]
    3: furnish with glass; "glass the windows" [syn: glass,
       glaze]
    4: coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn:
       sugarcoat, glaze, candy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glaze \Glaze\, v. i.
   To become glazed of glassy.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glaze \Glaze\, n.
   1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything
      used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t.,
      3. --Ure.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste,
      and spread thinly over braised dishes.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
      [1913 Webster]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glaze \Glaze\ (gl[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glazed
   (gl[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing.] [OE. glasen, glazen,
   fr. glas. See Glass.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with
      glass.
      [1913 Webster]

            Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and
            glazed with crystalline glass.        --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

            Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent
      color to (another color), to modify the effect.
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   4. (Cookery) To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a
      thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may
      solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for
      glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored.
      [PJC]

5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glost oven \Glost" ov`en\
   An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called
   glaze kiln, or glaze.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for glaze:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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