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glazed

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glaze  (glz)
n.
1. A thin smooth shiny coating.
2. A thin glassy coating of ice.
3.
a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing.
b. A coating, as of syrup, applied to food.
c. A transparent coating applied to the surface of a painting to modify the color tones.
4. A glassy film, as one over the eyes.
v. glazed, glaz·ing, glaz·es
v.tr.
1. To fit, furnish, or secure with glass: glaze a window.
2. To apply a glaze to: glaze a doughnut; glaze pottery.
3. To coat or cover thinly with ice.
4. To give a smooth lustrous surface to.
v.intr.
1. To be or become glazed or glassy: His eyes glazed over from boredom.
2. To form a glaze.

[From Middle English glasen, from glas, glass, from Old English glæs; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]

glazer n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.glazed - (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"
empty - holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"
2.glazed - fitted or covered with glass; "four glazed walls"
glassless, unglazed - not furnished with glass; "windows were unglazed to admit as much light and air as possible"
3.glazed - having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts"
unglazed - not having a shiny coating; "unglazed paper"
4.glazed - (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture; "glazed doughnuts"; "a glazed ham"
coated - having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination; "coated paper has a smooth polished coating especially suitable for halftone printing"; "sugar-coated pills"
Translations
Spanish glazed [gleɪzd] adj [eye] → vidrioso; [pottery] → vidriado
French glazed [gleɪzd] adj [eye] → vitreux/euse; [pottery] → verni(e); [tiles] → vitrifié(e)
German glazed [gleɪzd] glaze adj (eyes) → glasig;
(pottery, tiles) → glasiert

Italian glazed [ˈgleɪzd] adj [eye] → vitreo/a; [tiles, pottery] → smaltato/a

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Notwithstanding the little iron stove, the ink froze on the swing- table in the cabin, and I found it more convenient to go ashore stumbling over the arctic waste-land and shivering in glazed tramcars in order to write my evening letter to my owners in a gorgeous cafe in the centre of the town.
Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,--that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
We parted in tears and kisses, and I lived for some weeks with that sense of having been a Nero, till two months after I received a much glazed and silvered card to the usual effect.
 
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