Lexic.us

Definition of Glaze over

1. Verb. Become glassy; lose clear vision. "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep"

2. Verb. Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance. "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"

Definition of Glaze over

1. Verb. (intransitive) (context: of eyes) to become unfocused, as if through boredom ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to gloss over ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaze Over

glauriest glaurs glaury glave glaver glavered glaverer glaverers glavering glavers

glaves glaymore glaymores glaze glaze coat glaze over (current term) glaze up glazed glazen glazer

glazers glazes glazier glazieries glaziers glaziery glaziest glazily glaziness glazinesses

Literary usage of Glaze over

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related by Susan I. Rotroff (1997)
"Shiny black-to-brown glaze over all but rim and resting surface. ... Thin, metallic brown glaze over all. Similar: P 6190 (D 15:3). ..."

2. The Royal Cookery Book: (le Livre de Cuisine) by Jules Gouffé, Alphonse Gouffé (1869)
"... them up in a circle; fill the centre with olives, previously blanched and stoned; pour some Half glaze over them ; and serve some Half Glaze in a boat. ..."

3. Notes on the Manufacture of Earthenware by Ernest Albert Sandeman (1901)
"Dryness may be due to insufficient dipping, hardness of glaze, over ... Running may be due to too soft a glaze, over glost-firing, hard biscuit, ..."

4. The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion: Containing Rules and (1867)
"When dry, glaze over with thin white, a- little stronger in some places than ... glaze over your panel with a thin colour, made with Vandyke brown and black ..."

5. The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion: Containing Rules and (1861)
"When dry, glaze over all with a green, made with Antwerp blue and Italian pink ... Take a sash-tool, and glaze over your work with the darkest green you can ..."

6. Grand Feu Ceramics: A Practical Treatise on the Making of Fine Porcelain and by Taxile Doat, Charles Fergus Binns (1905)
"The use of this process of decoration requires much practice in the disposition in spots or clouds of the boracic glaze over the ordinary glaze, ..."

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