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   Glaze (glāz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glazed (glāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing.] [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.]
   
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   1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass.
   
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   Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.
   
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   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”.
   
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   Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.
   
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   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.
   
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   Glaze, v. i. To become glazed of glassy.
   
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   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.
   
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   2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
   
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   3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
   
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   Glost oven (?). An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.
   
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