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cf. Icel. glæsa to polish; M. H. Ger. glāze, *glase, *glas-en, *glas-yn, verb t. & i. glasen to glaze.] A. Transitive : 1. To furnish with gla , as a window; to cover with a sheet of gla ; as, to glaze a window or a picture. 2. To furnish with windows of gla . 3. To overlay with gla , or a substance resembling gla , to cover with a vitreous substance. "For its aptne to vitrify, and serve the potters to glaze their earthen ve els, the miners call pottern ore." -Boyle: Works , vol. i., p. 323. 4. To overlay or overspread with anything shin ing and transparent like gla ; to make gla y. "Sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing intire, to many objects." Shakesp.: Richard II ., ii. 2. 5. To make smooth or glo y; to polish; as, to glaze cloth, . "As they have a method of glazing it, it is more durable."-Cook: Voyages, vol. iii., bk. ii., ch. iii. B. In trans.: To become gla y; to a ume a dull, gla y appearance; to become overspread with a semi-transparent film. "A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye." Scott: Marmion, vi. 32.