v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Glazed p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing. ] [ OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Cookery) To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored. [ PJC ]

v. i. To become glazed of glassy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. fitted or covered with glass; as, a glassed wall. Opposite of unglazed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adj. 1. Same as glassed.
Syn. -- glassed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Having a shiny surface or coating; as, glazed fabrics; glazed doughnuts. [ Narrower terms: glassy, vitreous, vitrified; glossy, calendered; icy ; glacé ] unglazed
Syn. -- shiny. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. Lacking liveliness; -- used of eyes; as, a glazed look.
Syn. -- glassy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ AS. glæsen. ] Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Glaze. ] One whose business is to set glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron. [ 1913 Webster ]