Glaze
Glaze (glāz) , transitive verb
[Old English glasen, glazen, from glas. See Glass.]
1.
To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.
Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass.
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.
3.
(Painting) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
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.
Glaze , intransitive verb
To become glazed of glassy.
Glaze , noun
1.
The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, transitive verb, 3. — Ure
2.
(Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
3.
A glazing oven. See Glost oven.