Glare
Glare (glâr) , intransitive verb
[Old English glaren, gloren; compare Anglo-Saxon glar amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, Dutch gloren to glimmer; prob. akin to English glass.]
1.
To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
2.
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon.
3.
To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
Glare , transitive verb
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
Every eye
Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
Glare , noun
1.
A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare.
2.
A fierce, piercing look or stare.
About them round,
A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
3.
A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
4.
A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. [United States]
Glare , adjective
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. [United States]