GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found 4 definitions

1.       
   Glare (glâr), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glared (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glaring.] [OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. glær amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, D. gloren to glimmer; prob. akin to E. glass.]
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. Pope.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
         
       

2.       
   Glare, v. t. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   Every eye
   
   Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
         
       

3.       
   Glare, n.
   1. A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   2. A fierce, piercing look or stare.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   About them round,
   
   A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   3. A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   4. A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, “a glare of ice”. [U. S. ]
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
         
       

4.       
   Glare, a. [See Glary, and Glare, n.] Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, “skating on glare ice”. [U. S.]
   
   [1913 Webster]