glaze

From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen.

The noun is from the verb.

• IPA^(key): /ɡleɪz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz

glaze (countable and uncountable, plural glazes)

1. (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb).
2. A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
3. A smooth edible coating applied to food.
4. (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
5. Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
6. A glazing oven; glost oven.

glaze (third-person singular simple present glazes, present participle glazing, simple past and past participle glazed)

1. (transitive) To install windows.
2. (transitive, ceramics, painting) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
   • 2004, Frank Hamer; Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:

     An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.

3. (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
4. (intransitive) For eyes to take on an uninterested appearance.

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

• gazel

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣlaː.zə/

glaze

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of glazen