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GLAZED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of eyes) lacking liveliness
Example:
his eyes were glazed over with boredom
Synonyms:
glassy; glazed
Classified under:
Similar:
empty (holding or containing nothing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a shiny surface or coating
Example:
glazed doughnuts
Synonyms:
glazed; shiny
Classified under:
Similar:
glassy; vitreous; vitrified ((of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it)
glass-like (resembling glass)
calendered; glossy ((of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers)
icy (shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice)
Antonym:
unglazed (not having a shiny coating)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fitted or covered with glass
Example:
four glazed walls
Synonyms:
glassed; glazed
Classified under:
Antonym:
unglazed (not furnished with glass)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture
Example:
a glazed ham
Classified under:
Similar:
coated (having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb glaze
Context examples:
Man and horse were down; they had slipped on the sheet of ice which glazed the causeway.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was a landscape in water colours, of which I had made a present to the superintendent, in acknowledgment of her obliging mediation with the committee on my behalf, and which she had framed and glazed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I must watch this ghastly countenance—these blue, still lips forbidden to unclose—these eyes now shut, now opening, now wandering through the room, now fixing on me, and ever glazed with the dulness of horror.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At first I did not know to what room he had borne me; all was cloudy to my glazed sight: presently I felt the reviving warmth of a fire; for, summer as it was, I had become icy cold in my chamber.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Presently Tom lifted his head with a jerk and after staring around the garage with glazed eyes addressed a mumbled incoherent remark to the policeman.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
